Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-08-26
THE CHINESE MASSACRES.
Gauss Of tho 0uFas.S as Represented
by The Natives,
Missionary stations Hstbsds Of I'm
morality aan places sf Refuge
Tor bandits.


prominent Chihsss merchant of Gu
cage, says that q Cnine-r paper ho just
received gives the Chinese version OF
tue ATTACKS upon the English aud
American missionaries. AcucTdiIg TO
hi. Chinese paper the attack developed
q serious ItsloOi niilIr. IL vas found
that the Easements Of the missionary
houses were ciIs,ly gustiei ny the dn-
reputable Chiutse banger-on. No
IL cent ChinHmzn will have anything
TO 10 with n mission. The missionaries
cannot talk the language. Ihs Chl-
no In the interior who oan talk
"plgeon," Or aGy foreign language,
arc almost always youuE men who
hAvo run away TO void punishment
Tor polly crimes or 10 shitg tbs supi OFT
~ I cir iauiilicr, going TO sOlnc treaty
uOrt Instead OF me mountains, M tue
lugiIivrs from justice for moro serious
cflmu0 20. 10 tinie the petty crime IL
forgotten or compounded and the fellow
comts bAcE, butis regarded ~ n social
outlaw End dOes no. iud or want 20
dad anything TO 10 ~ the way o
work, more tnAn enough 10 keep him
alive. ITO aIvent NJ the m s'iOnHfy
u
linguisI. Tue misSiouufy has to have
ready 10 act aud ,lsO to BE-
come n Cunvou-auything Tor
an rssy life. He b,comts me n Der OF
the missionary itsI AID household.
| The missionary wAna converts; tho
hRngeT-1n whuts some luxuTirs
ThcTc ATE only two ways to get con-
yrrts ~ China. Ous IL t. hire them;
then you have converts as long ~ they
are paid. The other IL by buyiug or
| kidnapping children ami keeping anu
| lesuhing them. Hiring converts aud
| uuying children ArerGprnsivr, hut the
ueller elias. Of missiobHrlus, wei SUI
plisd with money, VINO understand
| the Chiuese ussgts, birn and buy and
show Ttaults, u cd missionaries iou't
| allow kldBApplug but most Oi tbs mit-
slonHriss, white good people them
| sslvus, DON'T know now bad their stan
10. IL n tho native sls1, under the
| lead Of the tough interpreter who does
the kidnapping anu tue nIitSionaty IN
lOllgI.
Tnis IN tho way II In dUu'; One Of
the Interpreters ssst a ohilJi GgITi, ten
or twelve Yonfs old, Aud finda out she
IL NOT vol watched ana cared fbT, that
her parruts are poor VI CARELESS people,
not nkely 20 mske much OF n iuss nj
bsr disappsAThuos. Hu inyeisles tho
child into n visit ~ tire mission And
oittn force Ia u'Vu, Tue missionary
secs tho unild aud In told sotns ia,fy
sale 10y tue uu6eIu. ulUus interpreter,
that tue uhilI Wiahss 10 become n
Christian, that she wants to live NJ Ia .
mission and be Instructed, or some
other inyerti0n WHO seems plausible
DO the iguofAuCb anu zeal OF tho mls-
tlunnry, ana something IL aided 10
show tho itrIorisuca Oi guEidlnR the
| now candidate from TocapluTe by the
heather relative, who, tile missionary
Ia assured, w0ula do o. ~ prevent the
pcfverslon nj tnu cnild's iaitA,
AutnU missionary oAnn0, talk 10 the
uhiId no Igiisla his interpreter who oan
ami ~ q Child--ws l,ihs less tho oiiglnRl
IL followed berr TIE Re tor. The iHtvi.
prefer ract C,ily gr,s the girl. She ID
his slave for this lms being and no
tAya tho mis- siongfy ~ keep her SAFELY
out Of tight until hs eau Esll heT and
get The money Tor hbr. Their tho mn.
slousry Is fooled again ana the pIoc0ts
/. Tbpsated AS frequently NJ possible, II
isn great industry TOT the uUacrupulOuI
inisrpgs.su, VINO live better, hEv,
more plentuto Hnd make more money
with less work unCei tbs pTOteuuon ol
TIC mi sion than myaI Of tho goot
people of thelr lOwH.
Inc burning Of the m .ssiOnS ftspd
some OF the girl captivsa, VINO lsld tn,
} stuTles Of their Kidnapping, cOnhuD
: mont aud the ihdigniiloa 10 wuili
they were subiccI'd.
Tho stories spr, al and aroused tn d
forocity Of al good Tolpit. rnk
atsrted the great riot ana tue m b at
tackled tue missionaries anu iutsrprt
tetH indisctimlnsttly,
The hsst people did not accuse Tia,
missionaries OF ary intentional wroDt
and would not have harmed them. ia