Another Boxer Uprising Predicted
It is predicted that in the near future there will be another Boxer uprising in China. These predictions come from the missionaries, and this calls to mind the fact that the missionaries warned the diplomatic representatives in Peking of the former insurrection sometime before it actually broke out, but their warnings were not heeded. It is also remembered that missionaries were extensively blamed for the ill-feeling that called out the rebellion; and now the missionaries are saying that foreign intervention, or rather the conduct of the intervenors, is the reason of their predicting a recurrence of trouble. They say, “The blunders of soldiers and diplomats during ‘the year 1900 are to be visited upon the heads of the ‘missionaries and merchants, sooner or later.’” Furthermore, it is stated by Senator Beveridge and Special Envoy Rockhill, who have recently returned from China, that the Chinese minister at Washington, because of his growing popularity in this country, is becoming suspected of being too friendly to the United States.