The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-18
DISLIKE MISSIONS.
The Uprising in China Against
Foreigners.
Mobs Are melted by the Kolo Brotherhood
and Destroy Missionary Property
Valued at s25,00O,O0O.

Rev. DIR. A. P. Happier of Canton, who
has been engaged in missionary work in
China, under the direction Of the American
Presbyterian Church, Tor the past forty
seven years, arrived in the city on the Bel
gle yesterday. and is staying at the Occi.
dental. DR.. Happier has returned to his
native land for rest and recuperation, and
also to procure funds for lis pet enterprise,
the establishment of a native college at Can
ton, where the Chinese youth can be edu-
Gated, and more especially for the training
of native missionaries. He is en- route to
his former home in Pittsburg, Pa, where he
will remain for some time.
THREATS MADE.
81 left Canton on the 9th Of June" said
DR.. Happier to CALL reporter yesterday,
land prior to my departure many threats
had been made by the natives against for
eign residents, the Chinese being partcu-
larly inirical to the missionaries of all
denominations. Angry mObs pursued us
and stoned us whenever we appeared, and
our lives were in such peril that the British
Consul at Canton sent down to Hong Kong
for a gunboat and thirty foreign customs
officials organized military company for
the defense of their women aad children.
Since my arrival in San Francisco, l have
heard that the Emperor of China has issued
an edict that the foreign residents must not
be molested. and. from what | can learn,
presume that immediate danger has been
ayerted.
HATRED OF FOREIGNERS.
THE cause of the hatred of the natives is
rather curious. A Chinese brotherhood,
known as Kolo, whose objects are secret,
but are believed to be in part the overthrow
of the present Tartar dynasty and the sub
stitution of native sovereignty, has spread
rapidly throughout China, aud has gained a
strong fOOhoh in the neghborhood of Can
ton. The Kolo Brotherhood entertains and
promulsates deadly hatred of all foreign
ers, reServing their most poisoned venom
for the missionaries, who, they allege, take
the eyes and other organs of Chinese chill
dren, using them for medicinal purposes in
some manner not clearly indicated.
sUPERsTTrIoNs.
absurd rs this assertion was, it spread
like wIldfire among the ignorant and super
Stitl0us masses, and some members of KolO
claimed to have obtained proof of their allie
CATION in little town ON the banks of the
1ang-tse-Kiang, north of Canton. The
Roman Catholic Mission has attained much
strength in that part of the country and has
established number of orphanages, which
have done good work in rescung Chinese
children from parents who neglected them
shamefully and who were only too glad to
shift the responsibility for their support to
the priests and sisters in charge. AT certain
seasons the mortality among these children
was large and when the Orphanage authori-
ties perceived that child was dIing the
customary rites of that church were admin
istered, The Chinese imagined that the
object of those rites was TO accomplish the
death of the children that material might be
provided for the so-cailed medicine.
STONED To DEATH.
About six weeks ago an epidemic pre-
vailed in the town l speak of, and proved
fatal to many children. The orphanage
cemetery was filled, and a man was sent
with several corpSeS for interment In an
other part of the town. He was accOmpa-
MED by priest, and the ignorant people,
considering the dead bodies proof of the
Kolo medicine yarn, mobbed tho priest and
his assistant, st0ning one 10 death and ser-
ously injuring another.
This was the signal for popular up
rising, directed by the Kolo Brotherhood,
which spread rapidly throughout the popu-
lOuS dl trictS and was directed at first
against the missionaries of the various
churches, but finally became an outbreak
against all foreign residents.
MISSION PROPERTY DESTROYED.
Mission property. aggregating in value
100000, was destroyed by mobs in the
various cities were mission stations had
been established. Churches, schools. houses
and orphanages were sacked and many
people were obliged TO flee for their lives.
ION June 9TH some of the rioters marched
through the streets with placard contain
ing references to our Savior couched in
such terms that rs Christian minister |
cannot repeat them, the mob yowing venge-
ance on the missionaries for their fanced
wrongs. Our work in many parts OF China
has received a blow from which it will not
soon recover"