St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-31
FROM INFANTS EYES.
The Accusation the Chinese Bring
Against the Christian Mission


Against the Christian Mission
ionaries.
San Francisco Examiner.
The mobs in China are attempting to
drive out the foreigners because the
Chinese believe that the Christians kill
native babies and compound medicine
out of their little almondsbaped eyes.
This is portion of the startling in
formation brought to this city by Rev.
A. p. Happier, the veteran American
Presbyterian missionary. He also tells
about the horrible Outrages, and the de-
structiOn of the life and property OF
foreigners in China.
"The reason why the Chinese persist
in their hostilities toward foreigners
and missionaries" said Rev. Happier at
the Occidental hotel yesterday. "is easy
to explain. A calumny, which was orig
mated some generations ago, has been
travelling ever since over China. It's
to the effect that all the white foreign
ers. and especially the missionaries,
who are physicians to some extent,
make their medicine out of Chinese ba-
bies. 1t is told that the Christians take
the babies secretly by night into the
dark rooms in their houses and there
Kill the young ones and with a sharp
knife cut out the eyes and other por-
tons of the infantile anatomy. Then
they mix the stuff up in pot with
chemicals and make medicine of it.
"Most Chinese have heard this so
often and so long that they now believe
it implicitly. Their ground for this be-
lief is the fact that the Catholic priests
voluntarily bury large number of chi
neSe dead, particularly children. Inc
priests baptise many infants just be-
fore death. and then give them Chris
tian burial. They also, of course, bury
other Chinese babies that die i'll Cath0-
lie orphanages.
1.-The small burying grounds near the
churches will not suffice to receive all
these bodies, and many must be carried
away in baskets.
"A Chinese who was carrying some
baskets in a small town up the river
from Shanghi was stopped by a crowd.
His baskets dropped, and one OF them
broke open and exposed three infants
bodies, which he was carrying away for
burial. The cry was started that he
was taking them to the foreigners to
have their eyes made into medicine.
That was the beginning of the pres
ent riots, for the crowd, screaming
Death to the Christians! raided the
houses of missionaries in the town that
afternoon and killed two friends of
mine.
zone, young missionary-an Eng
lishman-was knocked down by blow
OH the head with a stone. Then his
skull was crushed and his brains spat-
tered about. The other was chased into
a pond and stoned to death. The mis-
sionaries' houses were looted, and the
customs Office was attacked.
THE riots spread through the towns
all along the river, and even to Canton,
away to the south. The estimated value
of property destroyed is S20,000,00O, and
all the damage was done during the
month of June.
The foreign residents believe that
the riots have been kept up by the Sc
cret brotherhood, of KOlo, for the pDr-
pose of getting the present Chinese
government into trouble with other n a.
tons. The object of the organiZati on.
which has vast membership all over
the northwestern twO-thirdS of the en-
pire, is believed to be the ouSting of the
present Tartar dynasty and the placing
in power OF the old native dynasty.
Il have lived as missionary for forty
seven years III Canton, but in all that
time l never knew the missionaries and
other foreign residents there to be in as
much danger as they were In on the day
/ boarded the steamer to come to this
country, which was the sd of last June.
The preceding days had been marked
by various threatening occurrences.
Emissaries came from Wing-po and
Shanghai spreading the rum0rS about
the foreigners and melting the people.
Great pacardS were posted on the walls
of the houses throughout Canton. THIS
all excited the people greatly, for tn,
Chinese in Canton UP to this time have
never taken any part in these outbreaks
and do not belong to the secret brother
hood.
''All the placards were posted by men
sent secretly for the purpose from the
other cities. AS Christian clergyman
| would not like to state just what was
said on those prpers and spread broad
cast One of them that L saw was of
the most awful description. 1t began
with the statement that on a certain
day of the seventh month the flesh of
Christ would be eaten, and that the
pOpulace would arise and put out the
foreigners forever.
THAT the danger of Outbreakwas
not mythical was apparent from the
fact that the government telegraphed
ton and advising them to resist an at
tack. On the morning before l left the
English consul teIegraphed to Hong
Kong that there was imminent danger,
and asked that a British gunboat be
sent at once to Canton. The 200 foreign
ers in the city were notified, and the
women were told to meet at certain
place where they could easily be taken
on board ship in case there was fight
ing. Among the employees of the for
eign customs thirty men were found
vino had been drilled as soldiers, and
these were enrolled in company and
armed. Capt. Cocker, the second dep
uty commissioner of foreign customs,
was put in command, and the men were
prepared to defend the homes of the
foreign merchants and missionaries at
ali hazards. That night the members
of the committee were to meet to dis
cuSS further means of defense.
II have no means of knowing what
has occurred since the steamer sailed,
of course, but from the fact that no ca
Diagrams concerning an outbreak at
Canton have been received at New
York, | Judge that the measures so
promptly taken were effectual in ward
ing off the trouble.''