At first appearance they seem of different genera; on further examms they are found to be of the same speci The Boxers were anti-Buddhistic in principle and semi-Mohamedan in prac-Bice. The fire and sword were their symbols. As Church and christian wore scattered through the eighteen provinces they became an only prey to their atrocities, When this ind been successfully pursued for a time, they turned their attention to the representatives of foreign governments and "the sie has become historic. The Imperial Government and lewd fellows of the baser sort" silke took a hand."
The Boycott is in the hands of the Westernised "expectant gentry" of the "Now China." It is led in largo part by ox-students of American Colleges, where special stress was laid upon rhetoric, speaking, debate, parliamentary rules, and the art of oratory. The supposed ill-treatment of the Chinese in America was the subject on which they constantly enlarged and it gave opportunity for the successful trial of their gifts: Patriotism has been fanned into o flame and China is a unit.
Five years ago the Church seemed the object of the Boser's wrath. so at first was termed ''anti-missionary"; now the school, the chapel, and the hospital are pronounced "philanthropic," and the minister, the doctor and the teach termed our friends." while the wrath are poured out upon the unfortunate merchant. Formerly the guns were pointed at the church towers;—alas, China had "to eat humble pie" at the hands of civilised nations; now dynamite is put under the department of commerce, aid American finance is hopelessly ruined by the withdrawal from foreign citculation of the " Dragon dollar." The Boxers were cut throats; the Boycotter+ select gentlemanly methods; how then xn it be afirmed thst they are brothers, or as the Chinese say, as "the hands and the feet Tt is answered; first, by the distribution of pictorial representations to arouse the masses. (The writer in Central China' found the same caricatures that he had seen near the coast.) Second, by holding! meetings; the one in secret, the other public. Third, by false and extravagant statements, Fourth, by trying to injure the foreigner; in one case taking his life, in the other depriving him of his lawful We therefore conclude it is the Asiatic versus the Anglo-Saxon; that the incident tal circumstance of the treatment of Chinese by Customs' officials is simply the occasion for awakening an anti-foreign sentiment, and we prophesy that it is but the beginning of a series of acts against Westerners.
The moral is: let foreign residents and governments take heed to giving offence We deal with a wide-awake people.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.