The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-07

the diplomats already appreciate our
 strength better than 1t Is appreciated | by our college professors, while in Chi-
 na, where we used to lead the world as
 traders. our strength has wasted to ai-
 most nothing with the failure of our
 government to make its greatness re- | spected.
 T am safe here at present, because there are Russian and French and
 English warships under my windows | at the Astor house. The other day, when we Americans were struggling | for fair play for two Japanese, we were
 all safe. because the commander of a
 French warship offered us his services
 Fancy this in a city that manages half
 the commerce Of Asia; in a city whose
 splendid bund the towering warehouse ! of Russell & Co. suggests what Ameri- cans once did here--while its abandon
 ment by that firm speaks volumes on
 the decay of our influence!
 When fifteen hundred Japanese as-
 sembled in Shanghai to avail them-
 selves of the protection offered by the
 United States government, they said to |
 sul-general, that they were delighted
 to throw themselves wholly in our care. | certain that no harm could befall them. | It was understood that, as merchants
 and students, they were free to remain
 here in the position of wards of our government. Suddenly two Japanese | were arrested on the French third of
 the foreign settlement at Shanghai.
 In the French jail they were kept twen-
 ty-four hours. and searched and cross- | examined. They asked to be sent to our consul, and this was done. The Chinese Taoutai (governor of the re- | gion) demanded their surrender as | spies.
 MT. Jernigan, supposing that Amer | ican protection was not an empty
 phrase, made a desperate struggle to
 keep them in his control long enough | for our government to devise some
 means of giving them a full and fair
 trial and then sending them to Japan | ifnnnocent or to the Chinese officials | if guilty. He cabled the minister at Tokio and young MT. Denby at Picking, begging them to assist in obtaining de- | lay and devising genuine protection.
 He could not, under diplomatic rules,
 cable MT. Gresham direct. Tokio and
 Picking worked in harmony with
 Shanghai, until word came from Wash
 ington that protection to Japanese
 meant the surrender of such people to
 their angry enemies. Mr. Gresham ca
 bled this definition in a brief order to
 give up the spies.
 'We who are in Asia knew what that
 meant. We trust, amid our shame and
 sorrow, that our officials at home did
 not know as much. The Taoutai, his
 secretary and the viceroy all repeated
 ly assured Consul-General Jernigan
 that if the Japanese should be surren-
 dered they would not be tortured, they
 would not be killed. They were to be
 kept as prisoners until the close of the
 war. Not only was this assurance re-
 peatedly given before the surrender, but afterwards, when the two stu dents were delivered to the Chinese the
 officials made the bargain obligatory
 upon themselves by repeating their promises.
 | "They took the young men to Man. king, where they tortured them for two-some say for three-days. They
 made them kneel on iron chains, with
 a bar of wood across their legs, and l men standing on the bar. They pulled out their finger nails. They put chains | on their wrists and poured boiling wa | ter on the chains until the metal ate it's way to the prisoners bones. They crushed the tongues of the two men. l They mashed into jelly the tenderest, 1 the most sensitive members of the | bodies. When death was about to
 have it's own way with their mutilated frames it was hurried by the execu- | tioners sword.
 we Caucasians are three thousand strong here and have, in this peculiar little Anglo-American republic, an armed force of four hundred and fifty 1 men to face the four hundred thou sand Mongolians who are on our land and in the walled city beside it. We do not anticipate trouble or danger, but we cannot say that it may not | come. Great Britain has about two dozen warships here and near by, and is about to send a number of powerful | vessels here to protect the English in | China in case of revolution or anti-for-
 eign uprisings. Russia has large fleet in these waters, and Germany and
 France have splendid naval force at
 hand. Therefore, we Americans, who
 still manage some of the greatest bus
 inesses at this port, are warranted in feeling that safety which the guns of l other nations will insure us'' ..s l Cologne Cathedral. A mammoth photograph of this most l nerfect example of Gothic architecture