Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-07

the Chinese litarati
during the past generation to create i'll
feeling against the foreigners will be ex-
posed.
All of the troubles in China are started by
the scholars and the nobility, and not by
the common people. The Hterati spread les
Of all kinds concerning the missionaries,
which they cause the ignorant to believe.
Every great riot so far has been preceded
b. tracts ana publications issued by them
That of Tien-Ts.n, where the first great
massacre occurred, was caused by a book
called the "Deathblow to Corrupt Doc
TRIES" Those of 1891 came from a set of
obscene pictures known as THE DEVILS
Picture Book tract called the Devils
Religion and a great variety Of obscene
placards denouncing the missionaries and
back of the present trouble will be found
similar work. During my first visit TO
China. SIX years ago, I found a Chinese
magazine in Shanghai containing an illus
trated article showing how the foreigners
cut up Chinese bodies and boil them down
into patent medicine. Last year, while l
was in the country, L many times
called "a kidnapper of babies" by the
Children on the streets. and during my
stay In the capital, Picking, placards were
put up stating that the foreigners ought
TO be Killed, and urging that they be driven
out or the country. This matter was taken
TO the American minister at the time and
through MIN the placards We're removed.
THE Devils Picture Gallery"
This was series of cartoons which got
through tho Rev. Griffith John in 1894, at
Hanhow, 900 miles in the interior of China
The collection lies before me as l write
Each cartoon is about half the size of a
page of this newspaper. They are printed
In co!Crs, and they picture the missionaries
engaged in all sorts of horrible crimes. In
the cartoons the missionaries are repre-
scented as hogs and goats. The Chinese
Character for goat is the same as that for
foreigner, and the character for hog
Is the same as that for Jesus" The lit
erGu OF China have nicknamed the Chris
ttan religion "the faith Of the cruciiieI
hog" one of these pictures represents
hog on the cross, with a Chinese ma ndarin
directing his bowman to shoot arrows into
1t. another hog the cross has been
Quilted. and number of Chinese men and
women are on their knees before it. Some
Of the cartoons represent the missionaries
scooping out the eyes of dead and live
Cinnamon, in order to use these eyes for
making Photographic material Others
show them cutting up Chinese babies
to make medicine out of them. One is
picture of a Buddhist hell. and it repre-
sents how the ''pig-goa devils" as they
call the foreigners, Will suffer there.
Other pictures show how the foreigners
ought to be treated. They are being
burnt. They are tied to crosses and
being whipped. They lie on the ground
WINE 1nlhahlen are pouring the vilest OF
-Ia r,binas IN autnels.
describe the Justice Of treating the foratq,..
ers In this way and incite the people to
such actions Some of the cartoons repre-
sent nude Chinese women tied to chairs.
while villain Gus looking missionaries are
cutting off their breasts for use in the
making of patent medicines. Many of the
cartoons are so vile that l cannot describe
them. They were gotten up by a man
named Chou Han. an cfftciai of the prov
inCe of Human, and they were circulated by
ths millions all over the country They
were carried in boat loads everywhere and
We're pasted on the walls. Connected with
them was poetry against the missionaries
men tie chlItleh learned ana sang upon
these nictiIres had mon the neonIe 60
trary 10 the gerferaI idea. there are mill
lions in China who cannot read or write.
put as Boss i weed sald about Mast, Any
$3.50 ro H. ~ !" i'S 80 ",,u tt'5
AGAINST the foreigners. They heIieva these
Stories and they actually think their chill
nr~n are in danger of being stolen and cut
10 Pi''e@.
How the Chinese Slnnder Christinnity
In the Human nrbIfcotfons which viii
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ann FeSHeu4'te'' the worship OF Jesus is
represented as the VOL ship Of licentious-
ness The religion of the ord of heay-an e..