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WHEN LAO TANG-JEN TRAVELS
The following extracts are from a letter written from a foreign lady, dated Taikang (Honan), April 18th :~
not
poor
had
to
message
"On March 20th, my husband went to Tivatein on Mission business, and the very On the one side there is a load upon next day we heard rumours of brigands com- the Chinese Government which is unbearing here. Letters from other places also able, and a constant source of auxiety and warned us, so we sent to the official to learn
if thero
was any truth in them. A friction, owing to the demands for pay came back that he haul
spies out and directly ment which cannot be met. On the other side there is the hardship, upon ereditors they returned he would let us know. Next and the slanger of a financial panic which day, March 23th, he sent asking me to
ich go to the Yauen to hear t the HOWS would inevitably affect, the general econo-
He had heard of thres hands in different mic life of the
Some of the
parts of
the counter
one of over 1,000, another railways are in desperation for the ready one of 400, and
of.
Eabout 100. He did money to purchase daily necessities. for anticipate trauble but could not be sure
anticipate what he their credit is entirely gone. For instauer, He would do
could to protect us, although traffic on the Peking Saiyuan
Lut if we
we were afraid it might be well for us railway is seriously impeded for lack of to go to Kaifeng, for a tune. He has very rolling stock, there are three hundred few soldiers here and cannot be sure of the cars lying at one of the ports of which delivery cannot be obtained because the brigands if they get inside the city. As we people not rising in helping the Government cannot pay the charges. It
gone away in November on account of is urgent that a settlement of the debts rumeurs, and alter all this place had not been for milway material shall be made. in molested, wo decided
on it possible. stay order to restore credit and make possible
About March 30th we heard that Lao the purchase of material essential to Yang-jen (the man who carried off our continue working. TE financial
missionaries last year) and his band were
the
country. the foreign trade cannot but be affected, id obtained a latter of introduction to with dire results in every directión. The the officials of the various cities, signed case for the application of a remedy, if by
the Governor of the province. remedy there is, is as urgent ns mik | Chang- Fu-lai, permitting to trav
Lim
travel where be in Chinese as well as in foreign and be treated as an honoured guest interests.
ever he goes as he has now owned allegi There is
a remedy, and the Treaty ance to the Goverment. He has evidently
timu
Lad of the routine of Army life ( de- LTD. Powers interested have already agreed in andest this letter which the Governer was principle to a policy which makes its apafraid to refuse him. Here he asked for the plication practicable at an early date. It use of 310 carts, provender and entertain- was recognized at the Washington Con-
ment. This news caused great consternation ference that China's Customs duties were
for the people know the character unduly low, and it was settled, first, that
these men. As he was due on April 4th, all they shall be revised to give China, an the young women and children who could, effective 5 per cent.--which is now in left the city, taking refuge with their friends operation: al, second, that a surtax of and relatives some distance away. On April per gent, should be imposed. These two and there was not a harrow to be hired, all concessiona have been estimated to
yield an
vere in use. Spies were out all the time additional revenue to China, of $46.000.000.
but could get no trace of him. Kain A further increase was contemplated when
and bad roads prevented his trip till China had abolished the likin taxes.at last suspense was ended by his arrival which bandicap the internal trade of the country, A foreign commission is to
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He
at noon, on the 13th in with over 1,000 of his followers. He had been received
go into the whole question and to form and entertained at Fukeo the day before, late the conditions under which the then came on here. For a few days before per cent, surtax is to be granted. The ho appeared the city was absolutely, silent, appointment of the commission, however, it was something like the silence in harvest araits the ratification of the Washington
titao when
i everyone nway reaping or re-olutions by the French, Italian, and gleaning in the country-only this was the Japanese Governments, and the commis-silence of fear. The feeling was as of a xiou cannot sit before the autumn, or brood of chickens cowering down while a complete its business for at least a year bawk hovered above then.
His wife and two little sous came along from now-much too long to wait for an
of the ancestral
examination of the serious state of affairs Brst, taking pamily, and soon after
which exist in this country.
MILITARIST RAFACITY.
hall of the Kuch
the big man himself rode in, with
79
bodyguard surrounding ht
him twenty It is obvious that the increased reve How precious is his life compared to the mounted men, each with a fixed bayonet. to be derived troui the contemplated, sur-Ho tax must be used to liquidate the floating debt: The view has been expressed that It would be a mistake to use the proceeds at an additional tax on foreign trade for the repayment of transactions like the Jupatiese loans, which were made for political purpose and have since been con dee in Japan, The two American Loans in default were also given to China unconditionally, in opposition to the policy we
thousands of lives which were sacrificed at really his word just Autumn! His name Chang, not Yang He has been receivet into tho The reason he is called Yaug (foreign) is Army under the name of Chang. because of his deep-set eyes and high bridged nose. He is about 40 years old and his home is in this proviuce at a place called "if it's really the old Lining
remarked to me:
Que old Agner who is coming;
many carts
be one for- with all
rts which id brought their belong ings from Fakow. Everything went wif quietly. They were fudud cared for ut the foolshops without payment, but any little thing they gut
from the sweetmet vendors they paid for.
of the Co The Marconi and eignorand would be
to which the United withave nothing to fear, for he thought he was Sho States now
quite
chup Vickers nans were also warmly criticized the followers of the Foreign religion ! because they involved China in enterprises, 1e had sent una proclamation before wireless and aeronautic, which she was telling the city people not to fear, ha was incapable of carrying to a successful con- coining prugnably and if any of his men clusion. The truth of the matter is that misbehaved it meant instant death to them. pre teally all the money borrowed by The west street was fuli trots end to end of China during the past few years, ai bom this great party, home and foot men and and abroad, has been used, directly or indirectly, to serve the purposes of the militarists, and there is little to choose between any of the transactions, although in some cases the lenders did not realite the uses to which the money was being put. It may ka said that all the loans were
Heating from Mrs. Ledgard, who suffered bal for China. Yet China has hat the at their hands last year, that the Ligands money, and in the end she will have to any form of small foreign things we repay Meanwhile the Americans and the providently hid our watches, clocks aud Freach and the Japanese want their hand Hirurs and a few ancestral spoons transactions put on a sound footing, Aut where we had put them!
and were soon in danger of forgetting it is useless to expect these Powers. Lo -
t going to stay the agree to any disposal of the increase was said that they were not Customs duties ratil Chittes hts to night, but the day wore on dailand threaten-
ing, and at dusk the fears them have been settled. Theoretically
uf the people were tly on the back streets, demanding today at their height, for they went to the houses,
it
At first p
is sound that parties who made selfish or
l-considered or speculative advances to baking, ete, and no one dare retuse them.. bankrupt Government should be allowed to stew in their own juice. But the reality the situation is that China owes the money and that failure to recogniza
There was some stealing and bad con- but the officers in charge were strict, letting full see how well they can. Belstvo dues
the fact will involve her in serious inter the wild things went off better
Considering national difficulties
that they feared. They shot down one of the their own bangers-on found stealing. This whole position, the danger of financial visit laus cost the city only something collapse, the decay of the railways and the ver $10,000 in entertaiment and providing economic check which must follow, it is road money. It might have been much plain that there is nothing to "be" done worse. We were thankful that not one of with the additional revenue but to us it then crossed out doorstep. In passing they to consolidate the mass of cnsecured debt, oked up at our sign and turned away at
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