Excerpt from The Situation in China: A Record of Cause and Effect We have sown our seed and we are reaping our harvest. We preferred the Dowager Empress to the Emperor, and we are enjoying now the spirit of reaction and bigotry which is congenial to her, and the bitter consequences of its su premacy. For, however ripe the poverty of the people in Shantung through the Yellow River floods, and their irritation at the brusque and um conciliatory ways of Germany, may have rendered the province for the spread of the Boxer Move ment, it could have been suppressed if the Chinese officials had wished to suppress it. But the West had supinely tolerated if it had not facilitated the victory of conservatism and hostility to foreigners at Peking, and local and provincial Officials took their cue from the capital. Undoubtedly the movement has now gone far beyond the will or de sire Of the Empress and her less fatuous advisers. They fear the reparation which some Of the European powers will exact in the spirit of vengeance and wrath. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.