Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-15
COOKING THE BABIES.
The Celestial Masses Believe Poreign.
ers Make Medicine Of
LITTLE ALMoND-EYED BEAUTIES.
Suah Reports Are at the Bottom sf Al
Anti.Foreign Violence
PHOTOS FROM EYES OF CHILDREN
rconarsroNpxScs OF THE prsrArcuI

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14-Ths critica
situation in China calls attention to the fact
that the Chinese mission is still unsettled
A new Minister will probably be appointed
by President Harrison during the coming
session, and through these recent trouble.
the post of Peking has sprung into the
greatest Importance. There is chance fol
statesman to make reputation in China.
The country seems to be on the eve Of q
revolution, and the protection Of our citi.
zens there is going to require both nerve
and diplomacy.
During my visit to China about two years
ago found the majority of the people op-
posed to foreigners, and at every one of the
| treaty ports there was an anti-foreign party
which did all it could to excite the masses
! against the foreigners. Among other things
they published a magazine which was illus
trated. This magazine contained graphic
description of how the foreigners ground up
Chinese children and made medicine of
them It had pictures of American girls
packing the medicine in boxes, and in the
same cuts were pictures of seething cauld-
rons in the soup of which babies arms, legs
and heads bobbed up and down.
Beat American Political Methods.
In ono picture the babies were being cut
up for grinding, and in another the pieces
of them were being weighed so that just so
much Chinese baby went to each package of
medicine. The Chinese text as translated
for mo stated that this was a common
method of making medicine In China, and
that the Americans and English had as
their chief business in China the making Of
such medicines and that they stole Chinese
babi As for this purpose.
! The great disturbance which we had in
Korea some years ago when our naval force
was called to the capital from one Of our
vessels in the harbor of Chemulpo to defend
the American Minister, arose from this anti
foreign influence which has also strength in
Korea These people had circulated the re-
port that the Americans we're stealing little
Korean babies and grinding up their eyes
to make Photographic materials. It was
whispered abroad that an American liked
nothing better than . slice Of Korean
baby done brown, and the statement was
current throughout the hundred thousand
huts of the Korean capital that our Min
lister, Mr.. Dlnsmore, had given q party q
week before, at which two JUICY babies had
been served to the guests.
Saved by the Kings Proclamation.
The people were wild. Mother love and
father love is as strong among the
Celestials as among the Christians, and such
statements as these make Chinese and
Korean blood boil. The mass look upon
the foreigners as barbarians. Our Minister
would have been mobbed at Korea at this
time had it not been for the King, who
sent out proclamation saying that any
bo oir LOT nI
would be executed, and telling the people
that these foreigners were kind hearted, cul-
tured people like themselves, and that they
would not be so inhuman as to eat babies
During my stay at Canton I met mis-
sionary and his family from the interior of
China The man came from Ohio, and. he
was a very intelligent fellow. His sister, q
medical missionary, was with him. Their
house had been burned, and they had been
mobbed by the Chinese through this super
stition in regard to American medicine. It
happened that this medical missionary had
a young Chinaman who was studying medi-
cine with her, and this Chinaman had in
some way obtained possession of skeleton,
which he kept in his room at the mission
ary's house. The Chinese know nothing Of
anatomy, and their medical system consists
largely in doses as big as horse powders and
in superstitious incantations, the burning
OF joss paper and such things
Soap Ruins a Missionary.
They know nothing of the use of the skele-
ton, and their reverence for their ancestors
is such that they would decidedly resent
our custom of dissection. Now, just at the
time that this skeleton was lying on the
table in the young Chinaman's room, the
wife of the missionary got out of soap. She
had been raised in the country, and she
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had seen her parents do at home. She
made barrel of it. Then the story became
noised abroad that this missionary's home
was medicine factory, and something like
three or four Chinese babies were ground
up in it every day. A mob collected within
short time and attacked the house. They
found the soap. 1t was q new material to
Chinese eyes, and it smelled like medicine.
They went upstairs and found the bones,
and the evidence was prima facia so strong
that they burnt the house, and the mis-
sionary's family had q narrow escape for
their lives
The terrible Tientsin massacre of 1870, in
which the Catholic Sisters of the orphanage
of that city were killed, came from this
charge that they were stealing Chinese
babies and cooking them for medicine.
Tentsin is a city of nearly million people
and the mob numbered thousands They |
burst into this French missionary establish |
ment, set fire to the convent and literally
Tore the Women to Pieces
and then threw their remains into tho |
flames. There were hundred children in |
the orphanage, and these were seized and |
thrown into prison and questioned They |
would not say anything against the Sisters, |
and at the end of six weeks they were given |
over to the missionaries who were sent from |
Peking to take care of them. There were |
many other foreigners killed during this |
massacre and the Chinese in a mob like |
this do not distinguish between American
and English or between French and Ger
man. All are the same to them. They are
foreign barbarians, and they call them all |
by the names of "red-headed, blue-eyed for
eign DEVILS" and foreigner cannot 60
along the streets Of Chinese city without
being greeted by this epithet. He does not
understand it because he does not know
Chinese, but the vilest of jokes and the
most vulgar of expressions are uttered
against the foreigners as they pass through
the streets of the larger Chinese cities.
saw ex-senator Henry w. Blair, of New
Hampshire, in the Astor House in New
regret his rejection BY the Chinese as Minis
ter to China and that he would except no
other foreign mission though he might have
had one had he chosen. He will probably
settle somewhere in the West and NAV
possibly practise law.
China Must Be Driven.
The forcing of Blair upon the Chinese not
their objection would not
lave been a new thing in our treatment of
China and it is question as to whether