Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-09
TERRIBLE SOCIETY
CHINESE vEGETARlANs WHO
 r'.,,9nrREp THE MISSIONARIES.

AtjRDEREp i'H
 ,,usterious Secret Order-Bent on and Mnrder--Disliked and Fear
 novernment and PeopIe-son,e .count of Them
 ,.a vaoetarian society of the Chi ~ emnire is at the present day the
 4alEed about but the least under ' secret society in the world. The ';h1e massacre of Europeans by its I .;ad members the other day is now # attor Itt Inf history. But of the society ,s ;ts aims and tenets, it's history - n,nembership, little has been known. %ha blow already struck, unreasona- and unaceountable, may be repeat.
 If if be true that the enormous ,bersbip of this organized band of ss;ns approves of the KuC Chang hor then other terrible murders may be Phe yegetarians are Buddhists of the ctest sort. They carry out this doc . so far in their daily life that not m meat. but no milk or butter, ev- ,asses their lips. Taken altogether, form one great secret society, re- d;ne the membership of which prac- slly nothing is known.
 Poiitics undoubtedly colors Vegetari- sm to it's utmost core. Whether or the man who passes you on the bats of a Chinese city is Vegetarian sonething that cannot be told. He tainly does not say.
 lso there is grade after grade of petarianisn. Some of the devotees of ] doctrine absolutely ahetain from all $ds of animal food permanently. p,e really are the true Vegetarians,
 mite as we'll to be included with mi should any sort ef political out ak come, are the men who only ab- in from meat a portion of the time. sect, for example, refuses to touch sort of animal food for the first 24 Is of each month, it's members being fectl7 at liberty to eat meat the re- lining week. Another sect leaves meat me rigidly on certain days of the ek and on other days eats it. All Ets of grades and shades make up this bat party. 1t is party much to be red.
 One branch of this society says, For ry four ounces of meat you use in $ life you will have to pay back eight nces in the next. !" Another way that ey put it is that the chief doctrine of hple Vegetarianism is "a means of tifying the heart, accumulating mer- avoiding calamities in this life and ributive pains in the next. ,
 Of all these organizations the govern ent heartily disapproyes, for it sees s Instant danger and menace to 1t ir bir enormous strength and power. ere are so many of them, and they fer so much ill minor principles that ery grade of feeling and opinion 5 pvidel for. Money these societies em to get in unlimited quantities bm somewhere-where it cannot be id. At all events, they have ample nds to push their propaganda and to ther in new members constantly. One ciety may partially die out or become baker, but another is always on hand take it's place and grow stronger out this very weakness.
 That the secret societies in China are ceedingly dangerous to the interests peace ill the Chinese empire it is easy tell from the lawless deeds that are lne by the gangs of men from the low classes who make them up. In the untry districts they carry off persons ransom; they plunder wherever any under IS to be had; they assume the le of policemen and sail in pretended venue cutters, stealing and carrying women wherever it is possible.
 They also have an arrangement with e1armers of thsir locality by which ey get regular 'indemnities" from em, the farmea understanding per c1iy we'll that if he does not give these laemnities'' the society will carry
 ms crop when it is ripe. before he chance to harvest it.
 n the cities they fire houses at night
 carry off property and people living 'ne house under the pretext of saving lem
 Desldes this they have an unconquer- U olsilke for foreigners of every kind. ls antiforeign and the Vegetarian ele- ent are, in fact, one and the same, 'sy are constant source of danger to stranger within China's gates. - lew York World.
 Sne Called the Governor to Time.