Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-09-12
PREDICTION AND FuLFlLMENT.
Pertinent Facts That Cannot BE Disre-
Garded in Considering the Massacre Of
Missionaries by the Chinese.

Pertinent Facts That Cannot BE Disre-
Garded in Considering the Massacre OF
missionaries by the Chinese.
New York Evening Post.
The Evening POST has exhibited
at length the repeated instances OF
cruel and inexcusable treatment Of the
Chinese in the United States. These
cannot possibly be disregarded by our
government or our citizens, when they
are calling for investigation into the
proceedings of the rebellious fanatics
in China, and for reparation in case
any American missionaries should be
found to have suffered. The Chinese
are no mean adopts at negotiation, and
we may be quito sure that tine tale of
wrongs inflicted by Americans is duly
preserved in the Chinese archives, both
at Washington and Pellin, ready for pro-
duction whenever Mr.. DENLY or Mr..
Olney demands satisfaction for what
our missionaries may have undergone.
1t remains to be shown exactly what
they have suffered. II has been stated
more than once since the news of the
massacres first came, that distinction
was made between English and Aneri-
can missionaries. 1t is a fact which
would yield plenty Of jokes, IL the sub
lect were not too grim, that there are
those in the United States ready to in
vent stories of American missionaries
being slaughtered and be not over
anxious to have them proved false, If
only they might make lingo capital
OF them. But ii would not be very ex-
traordinary after all if such deeds were
done. A proud and exclusive nation
has had forced upon it intercourse
which it hates; it sees its cities in
tested by visitants not come in the
interest of trade, which it can under
stand, but.with book in their hands,
out of which they preach denunciation
present and future to those who cling
| to the faith Of Buddha and Confucius.
They see these utterly foreign visitors,
| whose very virtues are a puzzle to them,
protected by a dynasty whose alien
dominion they have chafed at for two
centuries and half; and when that
breaks down and exposes them TO dis
grace and loss such as China has not
known in the memory of man, at the
hands OF despised neighbor, what
wonder their first wrath should find
vent on the most odious of innovatorsg
1t takes no great foresight to predict
all this. Yet we have brought it upon
ourselves in spite OF the most definite
and formal predictions America was
| prominent in the process of pulling
China into reluctant alliance with the
| western world, and that system called
international law. We negotiated with
her treaty etfusively engaging for re-
clprocal intercourse of the most friendly
kind. The subjects of the Chinese EN-
/ ls.rl Al.
leges, which we had fairly forced upon
them. Suddenly the Californians dis
covered that the new immigrants were
too thrifty, too industrious, too con
tented to live among the high spirited
| adventurers of the Golden Gate. They
instlgated course of legislation, not
only in direct defiance of the treaty
which we had so zealously striven for,
but in defiance of all forms and decen-
cies of legislation. The Scott act was rat
tied through Congress other words
| VIII describe the actiun-in less time
than it would take TO authorize the
President TO raise troops il an enemy
had landed in the Potomac. A new
treaty of the most offensive character
was dictated at Pekin; the Geary act
made the Sect act only more insulting,
anu ltS HdIHu Terms were mOul0eu In
the last Congress only on condition OF
incorporating the most degrading pro-
visions.
- Now, throughout these proceedings,
the specific warning was given again
and again that il we persisted in an
offensive treatment of the Chinese in
| America our missionaries would suffer
in China. This was brought to the
immediate attention of members by the
missionaries themselves; it was brought
up again and again on the floor. II
made no more impression than the
wind. The representatives Of the
Pacific Slope, whose morality was SO
outraged by the heather vices of China,
felt no sympathy for our own citizens
who were endeavoring to dispace them
by Christian instruction. II was not
obscurely intimated that missionary
establishment contributed little ia
American prestige in the Orient
| G. the East in the mouth of a Pacific
Sloper means New Englandl.
Yet il il should turn out that Ameri-
can missionaries have been abused,
what edifying lectures we shall have
on the duty Of teaching the Chinese to
respect the laws agreed upon between
civilized nations, into whose charmed
circle we have SO graciously helped 10
introduce them!