The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-03
THE CHINESE RIOTS.
How the Celestial Literati Try
70 Expel Foreigners
they CALL Us p,c-ooAT DEVILS
AsA So We sesss Oss sAs Eyes 81
Dssx Chsasnss 50 slsss
Up GSv1s.


Krx-KiAsa. China. May I. fse4
s.sse The Iona-haissd barhArisnsI's
Lock 81 the kidnapefs Of bat,tss -
There goss > pig-Fost bine-sysd devil"
Theses ars some u ths expressions which
ere hufted % me In Chinese In every city
visit. A tall Chinsman. in . blue
silk eoun ana big speetseiss. spss ~ ns
~ waitsd through the ssrests here this
morning, and wherever I stop crowd
co!ieets and the REMARKS which nay In
t~rprst<r frsnslafes Tor me ara BY no means
elegant nor polite. At Hankow had
great trouhis In getting man 20 60 about
with ms. There was wesl-educated
Chinaman, who spoke good English. but
he said II he went the people would call
him - foreigners dog" and hs svidsntiy
did mot want 10 be seen on the street In
my company. confess don't like IL.
Even the babies yell st the forstgnsfs In
some Of shess towns. The dogs. Who viii
not molest . strange native, recognize
. foreigner by his sneil. and rush
for him, swapping at his heels. ! carry .
good club and I think that this protects
me 20 certain extent from both dogs
and men. This IL one Of the most rebel
lions parts Of China. snd the Chinese here
are far different from those you End In
America They are big. brosd-shontdered
fsIlows, with stronger features than the
men ii South China, wheucs our coolies
come. Thsy speak . different language
end ara snoss independent In their acttons-
The bsster classes al over the empire hate
She foreigners. and the millions which the
vlcsroy Of Hankow II putting into his fac
tories and rolling mEIls sse apent becAnse
Ne hopes by them 10 make China entirely
independent Of the rest 81 tho world.
It was throughout this YAngtss valley
that the great riots Of 1891 began, and
they extsndsd from here al over tho en-
pire. They resulted in the massacre Of
hundreds upon hundreds Of native Chris
tians. and Tor tsme All sorts Of foreigners
feared for their lives. Al Wusueh one Of
the English customs officers and = Meth
odist missionary we're killed by the mob.
and foreign property wa burned and loot
ed at dozen different stations along tho
Tivsr. Today an intense dislike 70 for
siguers prevails among the literary and
Official classes Of the empire.
They look upon az ~ savsges and Doors,
and they would. II they dared, sweep US
from the country today. IL IL from them
that the stories come ~ TO the wicksdness
Of the Europeans. They distribute books
full Of all sorts Of lies about the mission-
sries. and the chief cause Of every riot
comes from such publications. Just be-
fore the Tisntsin massaore . pamphlet was
issued charging the foreigners with steal
ing Chinese babies and cutting them up
for medicine, and the same stories were
printed and shipped over the empire by
the million during the riots Of three
ysars ago. Al this time theirs were
the ssDsviir Picture Gallery" These
seprssentsd In the viiest OF scenes
ths alleged practices and institutions
OF the rsligion of the foreigner.
! have secured . cot Of these prints,
and they lie before ms - write. have
also procured translation Of the Chinese
when . .spsn tse Oceur.s sh:, shs
most ignorant Chinaman can ses Just
what they mean. The word for hog and
Jesus are pronounced almost the saTae In
Chinese. and the Christian religion Is
called hsrs the worship Of the hog.
Among She pictures are cuts Of hogs.
labeled Jssua. hanging 10 crosses, with
Chinese men and women kneeiing before
them. and other men and women going
through the most obscene and iicsntious
performances In the back ground. One Of
tbs hees 20 hung IL filisd with arrows.
which Chinese soldiers are shooting into
him, and . mandarin is directing
the attack. The foreigners are rep
1essntsd in these pictures by goats. the
words or characters representing the two
being practically the same. and one Of the
cuts IL entitled. ''slaaghter the Pigs and
the Goata" Some cuts represent the
slaughter goine on, and others incite the
peopls 70 rase against the hog Sect" as
they call us. The pictures state that the
Christian religion Is worship OF lust and
the psgs and goats are painted With green
heads. which In Chinese typlfies this.
Many Of tho paintings could not bc de-
eerthed. much less illustrated, IN any re-
spectacle newspaper. and the whole IL In
csndiafy In the extreme Many Of the CON-
mon people believe the stories. They look
upon ~ - demons. rho are possessed of
witehcraff power. and backed, M some OF
tbs publications are. by extracts from pub
lac government documents. they receive
fuil credit
In the blue books of China, for instance
you lind how the Foreigners scoop out the
eyes OF Cinnamon for medicine or to grind
up 10 make Photographic materials. The
Chinese have eyes which are invariably
black. They think that their s7es have
different qualities from ours and that we
are always seeking to get them. In one
al these prints. which have. tive blood
thirsty villains in foreign clothes are cut
ting cut the eyes of q dead chinaman,
while another foreigner lie gloatins over a
ssucerfal OF eyes. which be has just cap-
turess. The blue books of China say that
the Christians shroud ths dead that they
may hide this scooplng out of the eyes,
aad from ray translation If The Death
hles 10 Corrupt Doctrines" l copy the
following
In case of funerals the religious teach
efs 81 the Christian sect eject all the reia-
Nyes and friends from the house, and the
corpse Is pas INTO the coffin with closed
doors. both EYES are secretly taken out
saa the ossfsee sealed up with plaster.
They cali this the scaling OF the eyes for
the western Journey. The reason
tos extracting the eyes is thiss From TOO
pounds III Chinese lead can he extracts.
eight pounds Of silver, and the remaining
nlnesy~lwu pounds can be sold At the orig
mai ensi Rai the only way 10 obtain this
silver is by cegnpoanaing the lead with the
eyes Of thsnaman. IAs eyes eli foreigners
are ol no use for this purpose Hence.
ties ssn NOT take cut those OF their own
Ysopie, huf caiy these Of the Chinese. -
The writer here goes on ~ speak of the
use Of CAinews eyes 80 Photographic taa-
serasl, and he shows that these eyes spread
over the surfaces in way 10 take mage
fIcseres. ~haea the chsissians prtss.
Further on in tie sork there Is an sx.
traes from the pubic records, showius
bow Chinese scholar cheated . mission.
HFy and sssei ass eyes. copy the ex.
sTaes xeshstisn.
'sin the reign o. the Esnreror Wan Lie .
t0exlgn.9, named ra-Ta-L. came into Che.
kssak and began 60 persuade nasn 20 josn
she sarissssa sect. ant great numbers were
a -