Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . ve the countrys best interestsat heart, think the best is: The removal of evil rules; the estab-lishment of a government which will protect foreign interests, mis-sionaries and native Christians; the practice of the Golden Ruleby other nations, and the saving of China for the Chinese underthe direction of the allies. If the Chinese could be positively certain t
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . ve the countrys best interestsat heart, think the best is: The removal of evil rules; the estab-lishment of a government which will protect foreign interests, mis-sionaries and native Christians; the practice of the Golden Ruleby other nations, and the saving of China for the Chinese underthe direction of the allies. If the Chinese could be positively certain that the powers wereacting on this plan, in good faith, it would not be necessary forChristendom to keep standing armies in the Orient, and the spec-tacle of the great nations quarreling for ages over the division of 28 CHINA NO LONGER SLEEPS. the Empire would be averted. There are plenty of just and capa-ble men in China who would give a good government, and theEmperor, if he were let alone, would be very glad to do all he couldto establish an honest administration. He was in favor of reformsuntil his hands were tied and he was compelled, by the intrigues ofthe foreign element, to banish reformers from Pekin. 6«w» YrWf t//Wi*^. CHARACTER OF THE EMPRESS. J. M. Mussen, an eminent counsellor of Canada, residing atCayuga, and just returned from three years of life in Shanghai,speaks intelligently of the Chinese situation in these words : I have spent most of my time in Shanghai and have not beenup country since last autumn, before the trouble came, but I haveknown for some time that it was brewing. The anti-foreign ele-ment has been in the majority and has only been awaiting a goodexcuse to break out and clear the country of foreigners and theirreforms. The Boxers are an ignorant set of people and startedtheir uprising because of the dissatisfaction that they felt towardthe existing state of things. Their movement, while it was orig-inal, was quickly taken up and fostered by the
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