The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1898, Page 17

SAN FR:&XCISCO. SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1898. HAVE SWORN TO DESTROY THE RULERS OF CHINA. POWERFUL MONGO- LIAN SECRET SOCIETY. COTOOTTOTIVVVGTICOIO00C COVOVOTTTOGTTOOOCITOOTO REASON WHY THE GEE KUNG COUNTRY. COOOOVCCO000CTOCTCOTOTO OCCCOOCOT0TOOOCLCLOOVO00 Li Hung Chang in his trip around the world did not dare The Chinese authorities promptly put to death any mem- his order that they catch. The imperial family lives in 0000000000 T ; pass through this city. He was warned that if he did the nt dread of them. ONG KUNG LEE Gee Kung Tong would surely assassinate him. SOTOTIBTTDOVCOOCTTOITIVIVTIVVOTOVVICOOTTTOTIOT INSIGNIA OF THE MOST POWERFUL CHINESE SOCIETY IN THE WORLD. MWWMWWS proverb ‘tells us °d against is, as ap- al t to be hinese as a peo- THE CALL REPRESENTATIVE TAKING THE BLOOD OATH BEFORE THE MEMBERS AND THE GRAND MASTER OF THE LOCAL LODGE OF THE CHINESE . SECRET SOCIETY, WHOSE WATCHWORD IS “DEATH TO ALL TARTAR RULERS.” BIBLICAL . x are bued with a great but are lack- iriotism. The love of home is prob-l golian heart marks the helplessness of | Tartar general, Tamerlane, by which | ence and thrive without molestation. ENlhlllst party of China. ’ race to gain a confidential footing with 2 love of ne, . g entirely in what we term pa- ably related in some mysterious| China. In the mind of the average |name Jenghiz Khan is also known. IL| It has been known for years that a| I was assigned the task of probing | the people. way to their religious bhelief. Confu- | Chinese allegiance to his Emperor is | their eyes the present Emperor is a | powerful and influential element men- | this matter to the bottom. It was a After days and nights of careful re- cius said: “Ivery Chinese must be | considered a disgrace. It is confidently | usurper incapable of wielding the |aced the progress of China. Something | buried in Chinese soil,” and this in- | believed by the laity that the reigning | scepter over a great nation. With | was radically wrong internally. At junction has ever been most carefully | dynasty is not Chinese but Manchur- | such pabulum upon which to fatten it | various times tales have cropped to observed. ian. They look with contemipt upon the | is not surprising that treasonable or- | the surface of the existence of a great The lack of patriotism in the Mon- | degencrate descendants of the great | ggnizations should spring into exist- | secret order, which may be termed the difficult and dangerous undertaking. In | connoitering I convinced myself of the the first place one must be conversant | following facts: with a language as mysterious as the | First—That such a society really ex- tomb, and familiar enough with meliste‘l' manners and customs. of this reticent Continued on Page 2k RS