Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — Li Hung Chang. [ARTICLE]

Li Hung Chang.

Li Hung Chang, viceroy of China, says a writer in Frank Leslie’s Weekly, does not live in Peking, but has his palace in Tien-Tsin (ninety miles from the capital), where he is sursounded by his armies, and has his fleet near at hand. It is well known that the members of the Summi Yamen, (Grand Council of the Empire), who sat in Peking, have the most profound hatred for the viceroy, and have tried several times to get rid of him by'Yneans which would recall those used in the Middle Ages. But Li Hung Chang is too well guarded in Tien-Tsin. Every attempt has been a failure, and after several of them the heathens in office came to the conclusion that the only thing to be done was to get the viceroy to come to Peking. They demonstrated to the Emperorand his mother that Li Hung Chang’s ambition might lead him to overthrow the actual dynasty and make himself a monarch, and that it was quite necessary to have him live in Peking, where the Summi Yamen would watch him.

The Emperor saw the imaginary danger and ordered the viceroy to make his headquarters in Peking. He did not even answer. Two orders were sent, the last being so imperative that he answered at once: “I am coming. Arrange quarters for the fifteen thousand soldiers I take wdth me. ” One can easily imagine the alarm of the Emperor and the members of the Summi Yamen when they heard of those fifteen thousand soldiers, and they answered promptly: “Stay whvire you are by all means, and keep your soldiers away.” Li Hung Chang may be considered the most liberal and- most progressive man in the Chinese Empire. “I understand -Tigson is financially interested in the concern he is with.” “Yes; they o.we him six months’ salary.”—Westfield Union. Between the plate and the mouth the soup ia often spilled.