The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-27
THEY BLAME THE INTERPRETERS.
Chinese Version Of the Recent
Maseacres. STU lii~ 3
Deoont Cinnamon viii Not Havo nythinR
toDo with the .Azis.tons-Disre putable
Persons, to Make an Easy Living. Act
, M Interpreters, and so Obtain Converts
They Evon Kidnap Children.

CHICAGO, August 66.-Sam Moy, o
prominent Chinese merchant Of Chicago,
says that Chinese paper he just re-
celved gives the Chinese version Of the
attacks upon the English and American
missionaries. According to this Chinese
paper the attack developed a serious
condition Of affairs. It was found that
che Easements OF missionary houses
were closely guarded by the disreputa.
BILE Chinese hangers-on in the missions.
No decent Chinaman will have anything
to do with the mission. The missiona.
ries cannot tax the language.
The Chinese in the interior who can
talk pigeon" or any foreign language
are almost slways young men who have
run away to avoid punishment for petty
crimes, or to shirk the support OF their
families, going to some treaty port in
stead OF to the mountains, as the fugi-
tives from justice for more serious
crimes do. In time the petty crime Is
forgotten or compounded and the fellow
comes back, but Is regarded as social
outcast.
The advent of the missionary opens
new field for the interruptions llnguist.
49, ~AAooAOhohy nnb w n6F6 al luLers
prefer. The outcast Ia ready to act and
also to become convert, anything for
IN easy living. he becomes o member
OF the missionary staff and the house
hold. The missionary wants converts,
the hanger-on wants some luxuries
There are only two ways to get converts
In China. One is to hire them, then
you have converts just as long as they
are paid; the other Is by kidnapping
children and keeping and teaching
them.
Good missionaries, the paper says, do
not allow any kidnapping. but most Of
the missionaries, while good people
themselves. do not know how bad their
native staff 10. It is the native staff
under the lead of tough interpreter
which does the kidnapping, and the mis- :
sionaries are fooled. One of the inter-
prefers sees child, say girl ten or
twelve years old, and finds out that her
parents are poor or careless people, not
likely to make much of q fuss at her
disappearance.
He coaxes the child to visit the
mission, and often force has to be used.
The missionary is told by the unscrupu-
Ious interpreter that the child wishes to
become ohristisn, that she wants to
live In the mission, and wants to be
instructed or some other invention
which seems to be plausible. and some-
thing is added to show the Importance
or guarding the new candidate from re-
capture by the heAthen relatives, who,
the missionary is assured, would do so
to prevent the perversion Of the child's
faith.
AS the missionary cannot talk to the
child he trusts his interpreter, who.
utterly INSCRIPTIONS, practically has
possession OF the girl. She ia his olave
for the time being and he uses the mis-
sion to keep her safely and out Of sight
until he can sell her and get the money
for her. The burning of the missions
freed some of the girls who told the
stories OF their kidnapping, confinement,
and the indignities to which they we're
subjected The stories spread and
aroused the ferocity of the Chinese.
This started the great riot aad the
mob attacked the missionaries and in
terpreters Unfortunately. The gov
ernor OF Fo KEN sent 1000 soldiers up
to Min river to quell the riot and restore
order, but the bandits joined with the
rabble and whipped the soldiers. The
soldiers lost half their number End had
to retreat At the time the paper was
printed 1t WAS said the whole section
was In control of the mob.