Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 336, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1900 — Page 9

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Many who took advantage of J the low prices which prevailed here last spring for small porhere spring ior small portraits on porcelain will be 5 pleased to learn that we have rc-cngaged the same artist for J? this holiday season. What is (J still more interesting is that he now works with color that is 5) waterproof that is, in fact, as . I ; durable ana cuecuve Klin-( fired. A portrait may be painted from any plo tare that will furnLsh allknes a dasuerreotye, tlntyje, or the features revealed lna. photo graph group. Price- rangefromlS.ßO to 11 Examples of tlo work are now exhibited on the Art Floor. Orn ctrn enf? For the Coiffure. , Most of these we tell of to-day came fromParis the fountain head of milli nery fancies. Can we describe , A them? Hardly,

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cotrtsc or Ktitorc GOADING yclLOAV 3ICN TO DKSrERATIOX. Stupidity of the roivor, Which Sceia Xot to tndcrtnnd Which Are Frlemla and iVhlch Lnciuiei. A VEEY CRITICAL SITUATION OriXIOXS OP A 3IAN AVIIO HAS LIVED FOIl TEN YUAIIS IN CHINA. Emperor ana xmprewa uovrnser Should lie Droncht Knck to Pckln&r Some Alnnuing rjgures. The powers arc goiiisr at It in altogether tho wrong way in China. The concert of Europe will not and cannot win along present lines. They are asking what China cannot give. All China is to-da; tn a ferment. The Chinese officials, papers and people are clamoring for war. It will not do to laugh this situation down by' pointing to the easy capture of Peking. We have seen enough of Chinese "peace" developments already to realize that the inflammation of all China means nothing less than world-wide war. Only the United States is true to the line "of moderation. Europe's creed threatens to bring nothing but ferment out of ctiaos. The utter futility of expecting China to comply with tho demands made upon it as conditions precedent to the final negotiations for peace Is becoming apparent. It is vain for the powers to insist that they have agreed upon these demands and that China must comply. Vor under the conditions now existing the Emperor and the dowager Empress, whatever their disposition may be. are powerless to satisfy them and the powers themselves are unable to enforce them. "When the Chinese court fled from Peking westward into the interior provinces which have been the historic home of Chinese civilization the Imperial pair was accompanied, or rather taken, as hostages by the general, Tung Fu Ilsiang, and his army. The first resting place of the imperial fugitives was at Tai-Yuan-Fu, the capital of Shan-Sl, and the Governor of this province was the notorious Yu Hsien, who was the Governor of Shan-Tung at the time of the beginning of the Boxer organization, and who was, in fact, the organizer of the entire Boxer movement. Yu listen was removed from his position as Governor of Shan-Tung on account of the outrages against foreigners in that province, but was afterward promoted by the Empress dowager to the governorship of Shan-SI. GENERAL TUNG GOES FREE. - From the capiv' of Shan-Sl the court moved westward Into the next province, Shn-Si, and stopped In its capital, SianFu, where the court t ill Is. Now the province of Shan-Sl is noted for its large Mohammetan population, and It Is also the home of General Tung Fu Ilsiang. who has led the court thither, while General Tung's army Is composed entirely of Mohammetans. The three great ring-leaders In the uprising and the most bitter in their antiforeign sentiments have been the governor, Yu Shlen, General Tung and Trince Tuan, and their execution Is the thing most strenuously Insisted upon by the conference of ministers who represent the powers at Teking. To those who have noted the course of the negotiations, it will be recalled that it was only after the Empress and the court had left Tal-Yuan and thus got beyond the power of the governor, Yu Hsien, that the Empress consented to depose and punish him, and so, too, in the case of Prince Tuan. the decree banishing him was not issued until he had been separated from his retainers. But the archconspirator and the one whom the ministers most Insist upon being beheaded because of his treachery and on account of the fact that he was the leader in the attacks during the siege of the legations, Is General Tung. It will be noticed that, with all the messages that have been forwarded to the Chinese court demanding his execution, not one word has come from the old Empress Indicating that she had ever re ceived any memorial concerning him, for she has not even mentioned his name. It Is hard to see, how In the present position of the court, anything in the way of punishing General Tung can be expected. The only body guard that the court pos sesses at present is the Mohammetan army of General Tung, which Is devoted to him. The 'court is in a Mohammetan province, where General Tung's reputation is the greatest, and he Is surrounded by his friends and the clans of his faith. In addi tion to this he was himself the leader of the great Mohammetan rebellion a few years ago, which was only put down by the Empre3 bribing him, giving hira' a commission In the army and putting him in command of the forces sent out to put down the rebellion. For the Empress or the Emperor to attempt to punish him now would simply drive him to desperation and break the slack allegiance which he' holds to .the throne. The court being entirely in his power, should any attempt be made by it to punish him he might not stop at merely renouncing his allegiance and raising the standard of rebellion. He probably would assassinate both the Emperor and Empress and declare himself the founder of a new dynasty. With the prestige which his name carries on account of his success in putting down the great rebellion, and the renown that he has as a general, he would rally all the reactionary and anti-foreign elements to his support and begin a campaign of extermination against all foreigners. SHOULD RETURN TO PEKING. The only way in which justice can be dealt out to the anti-foreign conspirators who have brought all this recent trouble upon China, is first to deliver the Emperor and Empress out of 4heir hands. The court should be brought back into Peking at once, and whatever agreements are necessary to secure this result should be made. The rulers of China have never been lenient to their advisers who have got them into trouble, regardless of the question as to whether they were misled by mere errors of judgment, or -purposely by false representations of fact, and the present Emperor and Empress can safely be allowed to deal with those whose bad advice has wade necessary their flight

from their capital and caused them to lose face before their people.

With the Emperor back in Peking, where the powers could protect hira and support him, the problems of China's future would become simple, and this Is the thing which must be accomplished, regardless of the concessions necessary to bring It about. It cannot be expected that those who now hold the court in their control will allow the Emperor or Empress to escape without giving pledges to insure their own safety, but it is unreasonable for those who know Chinese character to think that either the Emperor or Empress would respect such promises wrung from them under duress when once they had escaped from those who are now virtually their captors. The necessity for this action is not generally understood, but the facts of the case are that while the great bulk of Chinese popu lation was not in sympathy with the Boxer uprising, and believed that the allied forces were perfectly warranted in advancing to the relief of the legatloners In Peking, these same natives have been very much alarmed and disturbed by the course of affairs since the legations were relieved. The southern and Yang-Tse provinces have been kept quiet because they believed that the Emperor was virtually a prisoner in the hands of a band of conspirators led by the old Empress, and most of the Chinese themselves are not only willing, but hope and expect that the Empress dowager may herself be punished, but they realize that this can only be done by bring ing her with the rest of the court back where they will be in the power of those who are faithful to the Emperor. They at first believed that it was the intention of the allies' to restore the Emperor ' to the throne, but the long delay which has occurred since the relief of Peking has convinced them of the ulterior motives of the powers, while the numerous punitive expeditions that have roamed about over the province of Chi-Ll, destroying cities and towns and butchering the Inhabitants, has satisfied the Chinese people that the powers Intend nothing less than the partition of the countrj', and that these expeditions are merely the beginning of military operations which are Intended to overrun the whole empire. STUPIDITY OF THE POWERS. The continued demands of the ministers at Peking for the punishment of those in whose power the Emperor and Empress are, is regarded by the Chinese people either as the grossest stupidity or as a plain Indication of a desire to prolong the trouble for the purpose of creating grounds for claims which China will never be able to satisfy. The result of this is that the whole empire is in a state of ferment, and patriotic secret societies are being organized everywhere, while Chinese newspapers In every provincial capital are demanding war for the purpose of preserving their territorial integrity and of saving their homes and themselves from the aggressions of the foreign powers. , The viceroys of these other provinces have" about exhausted their influence in preserving quiet and in keeping the -people from breaking out. It is known that many of them have notified the powers that they will be unable to do so very much longer. They have succeeded in cccomplbhlng what they have only on account of those peculiar powers which m:ke the Chinese viceroys and governors almost absolute monarchs within their pr-j rtnes. Yet these vicerc; j are themselves in such a state of doubt concerning their own futures that they hardly know what to do. Several of the leading officials of China have given vp their lives under circumstances which practically made them voluntary sacrifices on account of their pro-foreign sentiments. Two of the leading ministers of the Tsung LI Yamen are said to have changed the wording of an edict, ordering the assassination of all foreigners, so that It became one ordering the protection of foreigners. Knowing when they changed it that the change must be discovered, and that their heads would pay the forfeit, they cheerfully took the step, hoping that the delay so gained might bring events to pass which would prevent the possibility of such a slaughter as was contemplated. The change was discovered and they were beheaded, together with three other members of imperial boards at the capital who had been parties with them In tha mutilation of the decree. It is not too much to say that these men were heroes and that the foreign world owes much to them, for which It is to be hoped that some day a suitable memorial to their memory may be raised. But the problem which confronts these viceroys and governors who have so long succeeded in preserving peace and quiet In their provinces is what assurance have they that their heads shall not be the forfeit for their friendship to foreigners? VICEROYS IN DANGER. As matters now stand with the old Empress, the actual reigning sovereign, she may at any time order them deposed and beheaded for their failure to stir up an anti-foreign demonstration in their provinces, and, in the absence of backing or support by the foreign powers, in whose behalf thy have exercised all their power and influence, they will have no choice but to submit themselves to the Empress's orders and allow themselves to be beheaded, or to raise an independent standard of revolt and become rebels. The powers are asking too much of the viceroys, as they are also asking too much of the central government. "With the peoplo clamoring lor war and the whole populace satisfied, on account of the punitive expeditions and tho long delay in the negotiations, that the powers intend the seizure and partition of the country. It is not unreasonable to believe that the viceroys may give way to popular sentiment, to the wave of national feeling and patriotism, and join in a movement Inspired by a spirit of desperation to preserve China for the Chinese. That the Chinese people have determined to compel the world to recognize their rights there can be no doubt, and it may as well be understood now as later that there can be no permanent settlement of the Chinese problem that does not give substantial justice to the Chinese. Should the delay in the peace negotiations be continued much longer there can be no doubt that the desperation of the people will drive the whole empire into a crusade ,for permanently rlddlr.g their country of those who have come to plunder and divide it. That ultimately these yellow people would succeed is certain, for the comparatively small forces that civilization would be able to land on their shores could not hope to stand against the hordes of Chinese that would rise up to overwhelm them. If the resources of the powers have been taxed to organize the expedition for the relief of Peking,, what would they be able to do in the face of outbreaks occurring simultaneously at every port and city along tho coast"? " " There are over twenty of these treaty ports o. China, each one of which would be as difficult to reach and hold as was Tlen-Tsln, and if they could not hold these points of vantage along the coast.

what could they hope to accomplish against those great provinces In the Interior? The whole population of the United States Is less than one-fifth of China. European Russia has less than one-fourth, Germany about one-eighth, while Great Britain, France and Japan have eah about onetenth as many. China's population exceeds that of all Europe and North America combined, but China's strength Is even greater than her preponderance of population would seem to indicate, for, owing to their peculiar customs of ancestor worship and the small regard for female infant life, her population contains a greater proportion of able-bodied males than any other equal population to be found in the world. SOME IMPRESSIVE FIGURES. All Europe has an arms-bearing population of less than 5,000,000 men, and North America contains but 15,000,000 more. The whole civilized world Is thus able to marshal less than CO.000,000 of men. and but a small proportion of these would really be available for transportation across the seas for an offensive demonstration against another power. But for every one of these 50.000,000 of men China has two. with the added advantage that they would be on the defensive. In their native land, and fighting for their own homes and institutions. In those other elements that go to make up the potential strength of a nation, such as endurance. Indifference to discomforts, ability to subsist on the smallest rations and to thrive amid unsanitary surroundings, . the Chinese are unmatched. Why, then, should we call them mad when they dare defy those who seek to divide and destroy their empire? The conquest of China may well be abandoned as a hopeless task. The powers should negotiate peace with China at once, securing if possible the restoration of the Emperor to his throne, but In any event making whatever concession or promises are necessary to bring hira back to the capital at Peking and release him from the p"ower of those anti-foreign conspirators who now hold him. The punishment of those who have been the leaders and instigators in the present uprising may safely bo left to the Emperor, and It is a safe venture that, within one year from the time that he Is safely on his throne, there will not be one of those for whose heads the ministers are now clamoring but will

j have received his just deserts. It must be recognized that the demand for their punishment now, while both the Emperor and the Empress are in their power and under their control, Is not only useless, but a piece of folly likely to bring the most disastrous results. The delay in the negotiations and the continued slaughter of the people by expeditions which fall utterly to distinguish friendly natives from those who have joined in the uprising, have driven the Chinese people well nigh to desperation; their papers and their leaders are all clamoring for war as the last resort and the sole means of preserving their country for themselves. The power and influence of friendly viceroys will not long suffice to keep them under control, and hiving once risen for a desperate defense of their country, they may turn upon those who have lately been their despoilers, and. not content with regaining their own, seek in addition a bloody vengeance. The yellow race has not been without its great military leaders, and it fs certainly within the realm of possibility that another Attila or Genghis-Khan should arise in the present crisis, and there are some who, believing that history repeats itself in cycles, think that the time has come for another greet movement of this race. Should they be right, it will be well for us that a broad ocean lies between our country and theirs. GUY MORRISON WALKER. A LINCOLN REMINISCENCE. An EnRlinliman's Recollection of the Dehnte with DoukIhi. Letter to the Editor of the London Times. I am ono of the probably very few Englishmen who saw Abraham Lincoln In the flesh and knew him personally even before he became President of the United Slates. Mr. Choate's allusion, in his Edinburgh oration, to the great debates on the question cf slavery ietween Lincoln and Douglas In 1S3S recalls them to me, for I witnessed them in Illinois in that year, in company with the late Lord Frederick Cavendish, when we, for a few days, followed Lincoln and the "Little Giant" (as Douglas was called) In their electoral campaign for the United States Senate. It was th-.? custom then I do not know how it may bo now for the' rival orators to appear on the same platform and to speak alternately. Lincoln was a veritable giant; Judge Douglas was a very short man, but strongly built and strongly endowed with intellectual gifts. I knew the latter, and he introduced us to Lincoln, already illustrious, but not yet famous. The weather was hot, and he often spoke, with his coat off, from the rough platform erected In the open air, an excited crowd of farming people of both sexes being In front and around on foot, on horseback and in carts. It was a striking scene, as passions were aroused, as, if I remember right at this distance of time, the Immediate and burning question was whether Kansas should be admitted to the Federal Union as a slave State or only on the condition of being an entirely free State. J specially remember one very graphic incident. Lincoln had been accused of opposing the Mexican war, and somebody from the crowd shouted out that he was consequently "no patriot." Lincoln In his shirtsleeves leaped off the platform and, with his herculean strength, seizing his jingo Interrupter by the scruff of the neck, dragged him on the platform. Holding him up at arm's length, he thundered out, "Yes, but can you say anything against my conduct when the die was cast? When once war was begun did I not in even' way help and back up my country?" The trembling accuser gave assent by silence, and was then rather roughly cast back Into the crowd. The story, besides having a present-day moral, illustrates the ways of the man and of the Western folk around him. Illinois at that time was quite "the West." It would be, perhaps, presumptuous for me to give a decided answer to the question to which Lord Rosebery says he can give none namely, Was it the man who created the crisis or was it the crisis which created the man? But when I recall the universal feeling, even before Lincoln wa elected President, among all thinking men lr. the States that the time had at last arrived when a final Issue must be Joined I cannot help regarding Abraham Lincoln as the chosen Instrument and not as the creator of the crisis. But, whichever view may be taken, there can be but one view as to the man. The study of his career always remains a profitable heritage for many future generations of English-speaking people, and I venture to thank tho United States ambassador for having so eloquently and with such Judgment again called us to the inspiring study of the honesty, simplicity, perseverance, nobility and heroism, together with the final, success"of Abraham Lincoln. "Felix eltam opportunltate mortis," for he died after, and not before, he had saved his country. Your obedient servant. -j EVELYN ASHLEY. Broadlands, Itomsey, Nov. 11.

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FACTS A DO LT THE RECENTLY-EXPLODED SENSATION, What Promised to Be Storm of Magnitude Proved to He Merely a. Tempest In 31UItary Teapot. NO DREYFUS-LIKE TRAITOR AND NO UNWARRANTED ACTION IIY t;i:". IlL'FKISCjTO.N. The Awful Pettlgrew Mny Attempt It I Snid. tn Tnlk the hl Subnldy Ulli tu Dcr.th in the Senate. Srclal to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. Army circles are still disturbed by what at one time promised to be a storm of great magnitude but which has proved to be but a tempest In the military teapot. It all grew out of the new French field gun concerning which there were mar.y mysterious hints thrown out during the past year or two while it was in the experimental stage. This piece was tried at the French array maneuvers at Chalons this fall, and the military attaches of all the powers were enabled to witness its workings. Since that time there has boen no further effort to keep the gun a secret. Descriptions of its construction and worklr.g have appeared in European papers, dally, technical and service. Jn due time the American army officer who had been sent to Europe to pick up any good thing in a military way that he could find returned and reported to the War Department. He told of the French field gun, and submitted a proposition to the Board of Ordninco and Fortification to superintend the construction of a similar piece, with such Improvements as he might be abie to devise. Ills proposition was accepted by the board, and the gun Is new being made under his supervision. A very simple matter, Isn't It, and quite In the ordinary course? Yet out of this simple transaction came what at one time threatened to be a grave scandal imperiling the friendly relations that exist between France and the United States. It "was Intended that the gun should b made and tested in the way the Board of Ordnance and Fortification conducts all of Its experiments, with new Implement and munitions of war, without publicity. But somebody In the War department had a different idea, and gave the fact to a representative of the Associated Press, thereby assuring Its publication throughout the world. Sensational newspaperr., entirely misunderstanding tho situation, shouted that somebody had stolen a secret from a friendly government, had abused the hospitality of France, and vlolatid the comity of nations. There was a good deal of this sort of thins until last week, when the November number of Arms and Explosives, an English military magazine, published lr. London, reached this country with a description of the gun. showing it had been public property since the fall maneuvers at Chalons, as already stated. Then "silence came like a poultice to heal the blows of sound." It would not be worth while to disturb that silence now were it not that during the few weeks the French gun "scandal" held the center of the newspaper stage the statement was made that Brig. Gen. A. R. Bufflngton, chief of ordnance of the army, acting in his capacity as a member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications, had voted against authorizing the army officer, who had witnessed the French army maneuvers at Chalons this fall and acquainted himself with the vaunted French field gun, to build a gun on the same line because he (Bufflngton) "had been tinkering along for years with a gun mounted on a disappearing carriage, and he knew that It would become worthiess the moment the new French gun began to be manufactured in this country." If the charg contained in this statement is true, General Bufflngton Is unworthy to remain in th army and unfit for the high position he holds. The charge is that he voted against trying a new gun claimed to be vastly superior to any field piece now in use because its Euccess would render his dlsapIearing carriage for seacoast guns worthless, and the plain Inference Is that Buffington thought if he could prevent the trial of the new gun he could go on Indefinitely selling to the government his disappearing carriages. The charge Is foolIrh, if not worse, for two reasons: First The success of tho new French field piece or any other field piece would not affect the problem of mounting heavy guns for seacoast defense, whether on disappearing carriages or in any other way. Second General Buflir.gtou has nut and never has had any pecuniary interest in his disappearing carriage. When he applied for a patent on it he assigned it to the government without charge or fee r royalty. The only compensation h'i has ever received or seeks 1 the satisfaction of giving to his country a needed military device. The disappearing carriage was demanded by the engineer corps, that locates and constructs our seacoast fortifications, and by the artillery arm, that mans and operates them. They called on tho ordnance corps fcr a disappearing carriage. It was furnished by the Buifington-Crzier device. Jt was adopted into the service only after the most complete and exhaustive tests, and has had to hold its own against the competition then and since of several other disappearing carriages. It is proper to note the fact here that the officer at the head of the Ordnance Department at the time the Bufflngton disappearing carriage was tested and adopted. General Flagler, was a bitter personal enemy of General Buffington. then his subordinate. The Buffigton disappearing carriage, therefore, was adopted for service vse only after meeting all the tests, applied to devices of its class and after encountering and overcoming the hostility of a personal enemy of Its Inventor. It has demonstrated its superiority in Its class. Whether the disappearing carriage shall continue to be used with seacoa?t defense guns is not a question that will be gone Into now, but if its uso Is discontinued it will not be because of the success of the new French field gun. or any other field gun. Nor will It be because the disappearing principle has been discarded la Europe, for such Is not the case. It will be. If it be at all. because some better daVice for or some better method of mcuzS'