Wuchang, Aug, 17.
Protests are pouring in from thy country districts, attacking the pow: ers that be on their methods of managing affairs in Hupeh, The en Chia-muh and the Finance Minister, Mr. Li Sha come in for the brunt of the attack, The districts of Lotien, Ch'ishui Yuan-chi and Tien men, the great cotton growing area, are the leading districts in this offensive. Their protests, which are published in the leading Chinese papers, are framed fi, terms of hearty, thorough-going abuse and carefully chosen invective, The present miserable state of the country is reviewed and most of the evils, such as the rising price of rice and the flood of valueless paper money, to the unconstitutional methods of the rulers, This, they say, was not so under the Manchu rule, Then, taxes were not harsh and oppressive and the people were not reduced to such 4 pass that they had to eat wood and leaves in order to keep body and soul together. All are accused of imposing harsh taxes the proceeds of which go only to serve their own private purposes and fill their pri-vote purs
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.