The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-11
AGGRESSIVE MISSIONARIES,
The Outbreak in the Caroline Islands At
tributed TO Their actions.

LONDON, Jan. 10.-An English officer
who has been visiting the Caroline Islands
gives some interesting facts in regard to the
recent conflicts between the natives and the
Spanish military forces in that locality. He
declares that the whole trouble may be
charged TO the American missionaries in the
islands, who are for various reasons hostile
to the Spaniards. There is first, he saws
the natural Jealousy between Spanish
Catholics and Protestant American mis-
SlonS, but this plays only subordinate ma rt
in the difficulty. The Spanish missionarie,
confne themselves to religious work, and do
not NEEDLE with the temporal affairs of the
people.
There is a crowd of hangers-on, he saws
around the American missionaries, whose
sole object seems to be to prev upon the
natives. How far the missionaries them
selves are responsible for the doings of these
persons he was not prepared to say, but
allegations were freely made in the islands
that some missionaries pay more attention
to their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT than 10 the
welfare of the people among whom they are
supposed to be laboring in the cause of re-
ligion Many missionaries have laid nm
go0dly stocks of treasures which moth and
rust may corrupt, and have introduced
business systems in their dealings with the
! guileless natives, under the operation of
which the lands of the people are rapidly
passing illD lut HdIluo Oh 1OIblE DeTS.
This has aroused considerable discomfort
among the natives on several portions of
the islands, and is. to large degree, re-
sponsible for the outbreak. The natives do
not stop to discriminate too nicely between
1.-THE nationalities of foreigners. In fact.
they have been cunningly led to believe the
Spanish invaders alone are to blame for the
changed condition Of their affairs. Hence
attacks upon Spaniards and other foreigners
together.
The officer further alleges that the Ameri
can missionaries knew beforehand that the
massacre Of July last was to occur. They
were eognizant of it the day previous, but
refrained from notifying the proper authori-
Ties, with whom they are on bad terms and
whom they did not object to seeing taken
unawares. The missionaries took good
care. however, to protect themselves nv re-
movalS or barricadps
MADRID. Jan. 10.-The Governor of
Manila, the capital OF the Philippine Islands.
cables that he does not believe the news
published in connection with the troubles in
the Caroline Islands. There is a Spanish
man-ol-War Is permanently stationed at the
Caroline Islands, and he would have heard
from the commander if there had been any
trouble as serious as Is now reported.
WASHINGToN, Jan. 10.-Secretary Blaine
has taken up with the Spanish Minister the
matter of the alleged indignities offered to
American missionaries on the island of
Ponape. Captain Tayler of the United
States steamship Alliance, who recently re-
turned from the Caroline Islands. in his
Official report confirms in all the important
details the treatment alleged to have been
imposed upon the missionaries. Secretary
Blaine viii see that the treaty stipulations
between Spain and the United States in re-
gard to these Islands are observed in the
future, ana reparation made for the viola
ton OF the treaty, if, after an investigation,
1t Is shown to have been violated.