The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-16
SHALL OUR MISSIONARIES BE
PROTECTED

CONDEMNATION Oh mlSSloH WoLhi VI "a
press the hope that the government will
extend no protection to those engaged
in ii. But when Commodore Kirkland
was reported as considering disrepu-
table acquaintance, who had engaged in
the work, as a typical representative OF
the class. we were amazed The Com
moiore would not relish the idea OF
having the drunken dobauohe or coward
considered representative instead of ex-
ceptional amongst naval officers. And
now Mr.. Foster, Minister to China dur
ing the Presidency of Harrison and more
recently the counsel of that country, in
the negotiation of the treaty of peace
with Japan, ventures TO tell the National
Convention of Bishops, that the mobs
who outraged, mutilated and in some in
stances burned the bodies of delicate
and refined American women, were after
all not to be blamed so much because
similar mobs had several years ago de-
stroyed the property and done violence
to the persons of many Chinese residents
in this country. Mr.. Foster received,
it is said, fifty thousand dollar fee for
his services in the matter of the
treaty, and it would seem that
the prejudices of counsel have
continued after the pay ceased.
Our present minister Mr.. DENLY is
residing in Picking, remote from the
mission stations and from the largest
settlements of Americans. Like Mr.. Eos
ter, he seems rather to rely on the pig
tail grandees of the Celestial Empire,
who surround him, for information
about the condition and the treatment of
his own countrymen than on even sworn
testimony coming from the latter
We have before us the October number
of the Woman's Missionary Advocate,
published at Nashville, Tenn, from which
it appears Mr.. DENLY utterly ignored
the urgent entreaty of large meeting
of missionaries at Shanghai, that he
should, in the very outset, insist on the
right to appoint one of the most intelli
gent Americans in that country com
missioner to investigate the outrages,
and especially to report whether the first
riot was instigated by the governor of
the province in which it occurred. They
complain that he agreed to entrust the
protection of American interests then to
some obscure subordinate connected with
the English Embassy, and to that extent
encouraged the men, who instigated the
horrible outrages that followed, to fear
no serious consequences.
The missionaries, backed by the whole
American population resident in China,
feel confident that they can prove com
plicity, if not the sole responsibility of
the Mandarins Tor governors) OF the
provinces, in every instance. The mo-
tive is obvious. The governor incites
the mobs by circulating incendiary
notices or proclamations, two specimens
of which appear in the article before us;
but so soon as the work is done, meets
the demands for reparation with
a bland smile and at once
accedes to it. Thereupon he marches
out squad of Coolies, who had no con
nection whatever with the riot, but for
whose lives no one cares a bauble, and
shoots them down like sheep. After
some chaffering the number CT dollars ia
fixed that will compensatory for the out
rage. mutilation and murder of refined
women and of venerable men of God. |
And Mr.. DENLY announces, in flaming
dispatch, that China has conceded to
our demands.
The Ingersolls say that the heather |
have set us an example by prompt pun
Ishment of the offenders aud speedy |
Mr.. Foster says amen, and |
one Of the Dickens bands of women,
who never waste their sympathies on
people unless they are black, announce
over in London, that those who lynch |
negroes for rape in America, deserved !
nothing better than to have such out
RACES committed on their countrymen
who reside in China.
What does the Governor of the Prov
nce do next9 Why, having entire con-
troll of the tax gathering, he levies and
collects three dollars for every one
assessed as damages, and pockets two
himself. He then waits complacently
ill it is thought that public opinion in
foreign countries will again be satisfied
With money compensation orsuch wanton
Killing and outrages worse than death,
md repeats the same performance. This
8 what the missionaries, who know ten
times as much about China as Mr..
Oenby does, say they can prove, if OPP