Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-30
THE CELESTIAL BUTCHERIES
Colonel Gockeriil Discusses the Missionary
 Question and the Recent Massacre.

colonel COckeril1 Discusses the Missionary Question and the Recent Massacre. I learn from friend in Peking that of the two new members of the Tsung- H. Yamen, or government council, re- gently appointed, one is the ex-tutor of the feeble minded emperor, and the oth- CT Is an S0-year-old antiforeign fiend, who long ago publicly declared that he would never feel entirely happy until he had secured the skin of a foreigner to sleep on. The elevation of such men to office does not argue we'll for the prog ress of China nor the safety of outsiders seeking to do business there. If the work of butchering missionary men and wom- en and children goes on much longer, perhaps combination of outside powers may be aroused to the importance of teaching the Celestial trilobites the inn portance of observing tho sanctity of treaties. Ill that event aged officials who are yearning to repose upon the skin of foreign devils may find them selves urged to the display of consider able activity ill order to preserve their own hides.
 1t Is not believed that Great Britain can be induced to avenge the recent murder of her subjects in China because the opium trade is valuable, and busi- ness IS business, but perhaps the United States, Germany and a few other na- tlons not entirely absorbed in trade can be persuaded to teach in Mongo1ian in terior districts q lesson for which the v1ceroys and nandarins are yearning. This lesson should not be taught to semi sayaSes by the knocking down of vil- lages, but 1t should be administered to officials who encourage and wink at the slaughter of the missionaries Every one of these guilty scoundrels should be cap tured and promptly executed.
 And it wouldn't be a bad idea to snatch tho gay young emperor from his throne and hold him as a hostage while the corrupt officials were being captured and separated from their heads. One can have no idea of the depth of the indig- nation felt here over the Ku- Chang mas saeres This Is missionary country, and people here, without regard to na- tionality, are filled with resentment. Even those who do not approve of mis- sion work in these countries nevertheless hold that China, having guaranteed by treaty the safeguard of missionaries. must be made to suffer when she per- mlts them to be slaughtered. To fix . price for missionary's life is nothing To chop off the heads of lot of crimi- nals already condemned to death, as is lX- Sc, not of the least consequence. The men who govern and control China must be reached.
 Will the government of the United States distinguish itself by taking the lead in this important matter? There is great opening and the occasion is a mighty one. But our peaceful, pastoral government is not in the habit of Iris ing to the occasion. When English Protestants were once denied the right of worship ill Rome, there was Crom- well, who could notify the august pom tiff that unless he changed his policy he would hear the thunder of the Ironsides at the gates of the Vatican. And the policy was changed. Can the govern ment of the United States, backed by the Christian nations whose missionary citizens are also slaughtered to make Mongolian holidays, send threat to Picking which will be listened to and re- spected? Yes. But will it? It is said on behalf of the central government of China that today it is unable to carry out it's demands. Its feebleness is every where recognized. The viceroys and the mandarins throughout the empire do precisely as they please and snap their fingers at Picking. Incapacity, debt, filth, disease, ignorance, disloyalty and revolutionary spirit mark the China of today. If the decrees from Picking are no longer needed, then the imperial gov ernment is about at it's end. A govern ment which can make treaties, but which cannot carry them out, has no right to exist. -John A. Cockerill in New York Herald.