The daily gazette., 1879-03-11

ligious and social habits from ridi cule
while, say, they have declared that tn,
nations faith pledged BY . solemn treat,
with q friendly power Is to be kept sac
| red, no matteI how advantageous |
be TO break 1t, what have the Chimes,
done? They have faithlessly and insoI
emily, without warning, without iustid H.
| cation, abrogated the BurliDgame treaty
The heads ef the Six Boards have .Iaid
at the foot Of the throne" pro clam ati or
against the "red haired foreign devils'
couched In this offensive style:
WHEREAS, Now for many years the
bowels of the Empire of Heaven have
been unsalubrious because of the pres
ence in the Flowery Dominions of the
Brother of the Sun and Moon of red
haired foreign devils, Yan Kees, Mclean
men, Sans, who do not eat dog or drink
saki, but defile their tea with the milk
Of oxen and feed like swine upon un.
seemly things, washing clothes likewise
with the might of white breathing devils
tormented in iron boxes, introducing
pestileDces and neglecting the worship
OF the dead and tho progenitors;
WHEREAS, BY reason of their pres.
ence there have been famines and earth.
quakes, and the butchers shops ara full
of big blue flies and whereas the excel.
lent poet Tup Pur hath said "He who
cometh from abroad is o stranger-yea
the stranger cometh from abroad" Now
therefore, the King, the Emperor, who
rules the Porter of the Earth, the
CockOlorum who is Elevated above all.
Brother Of the Sun and Noon, Father OF
the Planetary System, and who hath
the Asteroids for his Sisters and his
Cousins and his Aunts. Wearer of the
Peacosk's Feather and the Jade Button,
who hath a thousand wives save one,
nine hundred and ninety and nine
Mothers in Law, and the Key Of the
Combination, commando
1. That no Junk shall hereafter bring
In the Flowery Kingdom red haired for
eign devils, Yam Kees, Nell can men,
Sans, to any number exceeding fifteen
at one voyage.
Ii. That il any junk shall bring more
than fifteen red haired foreign devils,
fan kees, Mclean men, Sans, at one
voyage, headman boss alec same captain
catchee plison six moons, pungle hundle
dollals topside pleecs coult's desk fol
each Chihaman the catchee mole fifteen
sabee?
But why need l continue any further
through this mass of official verbiage,
which in short provides for the abroga-
ton of the Burlingame treaty and aims a
Chinese Empire. There Is q faint hope
that tho Emperor may refuse to sign and
publish the proclamation, but fear IL 10
ono that we cannot reckon upon with
much confidence. Silly suspicious and
superstitions have gained ground, as they
will in an uncivilized community with
out newspapers or statesmen to act ~
teachers, and fear that II the proclama-
ton were not issued the turbulent anti.
Yam Kee section would burn and
loot the Yam Kee quarter and massacre
its hapless Inhabitants. You, perhaps,
cannot imagine such state OF
things, for 1 know that in the United
States man who should attempt Eight
after night "a incite mohs to commit ar.
son, pillage and murder agai nsta peacea.
Bile class dwelli ng in an American city
would soon find himself in q cell or q
padded room. But here, among bar bari
ans, 1t is different. If America has moi
lost all her old time spirit, we shall see
II the proclamation 1 have alluded to ID
issued, fleet in Chinese waters at once
prepared to demand with the mouth oil
It's cannon that treaty obligations shall
be held sacred ana not be contemptuous.
ly disregarded whenever advantage OF
prejudice suggests the dishonorable
cOurt.