New-York tribune., 1895-08-10
THE CHINESE OUTRAGES.
THIS COUNTRY's HANDS ARE NOT CLEAN
A MISSIONARY CALLS ATTENTION TO THE MUM
DER AND PIIIAGE OF THE CHINESE

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DER AND pII.LAGE OF THE CHINESE
IN THE UNITED STATES.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: I read with much surprise the editorial IN
your issue OF to-day ''Chinese Outrages ana i"
justice ask you to publish what nave 10 say III
reply There have never been twenty English peo-
plc" nj Ku-Cheng. therefore that number could
not have been killed No cablegram received either
at our mission rooms or elsewhere has mentiohen
any such number then why make the numoer hi
er than It Is? Full details are lacking, not pc
cause OF Chinese censorship over the telegraph
but because OF the distance OF Ku-Cheng from tee-
graph stations, ninety miles from Foo-Chow' inc
nearest-a sedan chair ride of thirty miles, ana
boat ride not steam OF sixty Those OF us VINO
have made the journey and know the difhcuities
and lack in means of communication would resaru
It as very prompt work TO have the news IN Shahs-
hal in three days.
In regard to the list OF outrages said to nave
been perpetrated-between 1870 and 1Ssl-many
OF them never took place at all. and near'y
all are grossly exaggerated. To begin with the
statement concerning Ku-Cheng. 1t is said that
"a dozen, perhaps twenty, English people nave
been wantonly butchered." etc. There nave
never been twenty English people In the place 10
butcher. and II any proper attention has been given
to the reliable cablegrams TO our mission author-
ties, It is plain that ten-just half OF twenty
the number. To proceed. There was a massacre OF
some French Catholics at near Tlen-Tsn In ls'V
We were at home that year. but were Informed as
to this occurrence. We returned In 1872, ana nave
kept Informed to Chinese outrages since then
being connected through our mission boards ana
active work with all fields. not only In CHINA
but in the rest OF the world. Between 1870 ana no"
there have been some riots in interior stations
property destroyed here and there at interior places
all OF which has been paid for sooner or LATERAL
ways sooner than like destruction OF Chinese prop
erty in the United States
Indeed the Chinese and United States govern
ments have strictly opposite rules as TO indemnity
for destroyed property. Foreign property destroyed
In China is made good. and to some claimants with
enormous interest, while the rule Of the United
States Government is to pay for no Chinese prop
erty destroyed here. II II can possibly avoid IT, In
these riots. smaller or great, that have occurred
through these twenty-five years named. as rule
there has been blood shed; in the case OF our
West China Mission, when the Chinese officials
sent their sedan-chairs and conveyed our ladies
to their official residences and kept them there for
ten days. their husbands also feeding and caring
for them and as soon as they thought II safe the
authorities sent them under escort on their way TO
a safe place We were certainly not so far from
Shanghai in 1875 but that we would have known OF
any massacre there in that year. and this is the
very first information have that we and our CO.
workers at Foo Chow, in 1876 "were raided and In
famously assaulted" That peaceful. pros
porous year. l can assure your readers, ana
could give them details of the only riot and the
cause OF It, that has taken place In Foo-Chow In
thrty-one years. The dreadful massacre OF for
elgners In 1885, is also news to some OF us VINO
ought to be informed The same may be said as
10 scores Of missionaries being assaulted, MANNED
and killed" In 1891.
Let us be correct and fair in our records There
is cause for Americans not to be too free with
exhortations. epihets and threats. The Chinese
arc sinners above all others. II you Will grant
me space in your paper. will give you reliable de-
tails OF such outrages against the Chinese In the
United states-not in interor cities but thst nave
we'll as in San Francisco, San Jose. Sacramento,
Tacoma, Denver. Seattle and other places-that al
least ought TO make us silent as well as SAD IN our
present grief over the Ku-Cheng cablegram. |
know OF no terrible massacre In China In lsso; put
can give the horrible details OF one that oc,
Cured right here in our honorable CD country. |
had the painful duty OF writing the only detailed
account OF It published in the East and had TO lay
down my pen and leave my desk three times before
could go through with T. had the triple nOn oflal s
ciic Railroad-from which to make my painful reli-
able record. ,, ,oe- T.,
our history more Chinese killed, shot down,
burned alive. in one awful hour that day in sep sep,
EngIsh and Amsrcans & Killed. in China in twenty
FIVE % the s @ ad D
degraded, and all DESTROYED property Will be made
good For the Rock Springs OF nr y psr
Messrs. Cleveland and Bayard among them. de-
clared-up 10 this date OF august D, 1880 no
being has been arrested, much less punished All
the hard-earned gains of these fifty people were
stolen or destroyed. for which our highest author
ties declared that 'in Justice there was no claim
for indemnity but '.ex-gratia' IT might be given
but "ex-gratia" it was not granted until
few years later West China Mission was
raided-no hurt-and we wanted $4,000 for our
destroyed property; and our Government had
enough shame left TO hurry up and pay the ex-
gratia" sum before ii shook the American flag be-
fore the Chinese Government and threatened a gun
boat If the said Chinese Government-so Infamous.
did not right fearful wrongs and 'in justice
not "ex-gratia." pay up quickly! Again. say let
be fair,
offence to "Our Father for His American, Eng
lish and French children to be killed In China than
His Chinese children 10 come to a like tragic end
in the United States? If offenders sin Is to be
judged by the light he has, what must the answer
be? / am In deep grief for the beloved friends
thrust out of life last Wednesday in Ku-Cheng, and
am and have been these many years In as great
sorrow for my Chinese friends so brutally robbed
and killed in this land filed with Gospel light
Brooklyn, Aug. G. 1895. MRS. S. l.. BALDWIN.
Mrs Baldwin's eminent rank and great
achievements in the missionary world entitle her
letter to most careful consideration. We there
fore gladly publish IT, although cannot regard