The record-union., 1891-12-09
PlG-GOAT DEVILS.
DIRECT CAUSE OF THE RECENT
BLOODSHED IN CHINA.
Famous Agreement Entered Into by
All the Human Societies
Against Christians.
special 10 the Rrconp-UN1ov.

Special 10 the RECoRD-UNIoN.
SHANGHAI, Dec. S.-The famous agree
ment entered into by all the Human So
cieties. the direct cause of the recent
riots and bloodshed, in substance is as
follows:
Each clan shall investigate its own ter
ritory. Should any person, whether
scholar, agriculturist, artist or merchant,
be found who does not sacrifice to the
Spirit of the most perfect, and most holy
ancient teacher Confucius, and to the
Spirit of the Tablet of his own Ancestors,
it is certain that he has been bewitched
by spies of the foreign devils, and has the
religion of the hog Jesus. He is to be
dragged Immediately TO his ancestral
temple where he is to be severely dealt
with by the clan, and be compelled to for
sake his depraved heresy, and return to
the right way. Should he dare to DISC
hey, the whole clan shall take the entire
family of the Pig-goat and Devil, old and
young, male and female, and drive them
out of the place. Moreover, the names
and numbers of them shall be printed,
and the list shall be sent all over the sur
rounding districts, to the procedures and
the sub-prefectures, so that everywhere
they shall be driven out. They shall
not be allowed TO live within the borders
of Human. The names of the Pig-goat
Devils shall be erased from the family
register.
If in the whole province there shall be
one clan that does not act stringently in the
management of its affairs, so that from
carelessness or favoritism or underhand
allotment, even one Pig-goat Devil should
be allowed TO live in it, when the neigh
borhood has found it out, then, besides
driving out the Pig-goat Devil and his
family, the clan itself shall be called the
Pig-goat Devil clan. If any one has al
ready entered into matrimonial alliance
with that clan, he shall not be allowed to
have any further intercourse with it, and
henceforth no one in the neighborhood
shall enter into matrimonial alliance
with such clan, and the agriculturists
will not be allowed to enter this clans
service, and traders viii not be allowed
to exchange goods with it. Should such
clan have small Pig-goat Devil who
wishes to enter for civil or medical eX-
aminations, no undergraduates shall act
as his guarantee and no graduate shall
support him.
In case of travellers coming to the prov
ince as traders, doctors or fortune tellers,
it is difficult to insure that among them
there may not be Pig-goat Devils. They
shall, therefore, be subjected everywhere
throughout the province to the most rig
orous search. That such persons shall
not carry about with them the Spirit of
the Tablets of their Ancestors should not
be made the cause of the blame but they
ought, on the lst and 18th of every
month, and on three festival days of the
year, to sacrifice to the Spirits, and on
the anniversaries Of births and deaths in
their families; and if they do not observe
these occasions they are to be suspected.
They must be asked in that case if they
worship the hog Jesus, or not, and if they
eat the flesh of Jesus, or not. If their re-
ply is evasive and prevaricating, let all
unite in driving them out. They are not
TO be endured.
Should the foreigners dare to show any
desire to oppress the country and from
any cause create trouble, then the mo-
Inent the Emperor'S command to chastiZe
and eXterminate them is received, the
clan elders in the entire province will
themselves lead their able-bodied men in
the call for troops. AS to those who shall
give up their lives in the service of their
country, the clan will unitedly provide
money for their burial and funeral rites.
and for the support of their parents,
widows and children. Should any clan
timidly shrink from going forward in
this manner, or should any clan refuse to
contribute toward the repose of the Spir-
it's loyal ones who shall lose their lives,
then the neighborhood shall ostracize it
as a Pig-goat Devil clan. Should any
Pig-goat Devil dare show special desire to
manifest an animOSity to our Human So
ciety and stealthily invade our bounda-
ries, then the larger prefectures and dis
tricts shall provide 10000 men, middle
sized ones $4,000 and the smaller ones TO-
600 men. We will unitedly subscribe for
the support of the troops and the cost of
the wagons of war, and ask the author
tiles to attend to the distribution of the
troops so as to at once proceed to fight the