The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-27

age Christian to "HanS His Heau
in Shame."
CHICO so, Aug. 26.-Sam Moy, a
prominent Chinese merchant of Chi
cago, says that a Chinese paper he
just received gives the Chinese YER
sion of the attacks upon the English
and American missionaries. According
to this Chinese paper the attack devel-
oped a serious state of affairs. 1t was
found that the easements of the mis-
sionary houses were closely guarded
by the disreputable Chinese hangers
anything to do with a mission. The
missionaries cannot talk the language.
TIE Chinese in the interior who can talk
pigeon" or any foreign language, are
almost always young men who have
ran away to avoid punishment for
petty crimes or to shirk the support of.
their families. going to some treaty
port instead of to the mountains, as
the fugitives 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 outlaw and does not find
or want to find anything to do in the
way of work, more than enough to
keep him alive.
A New Field.
The advent of the missionary opens
a new field for the INSCRIPTIONS lin
guist. The missionary has to have an
interpreter The outcast is ready to
act and also to become a convert
anything for an easy life. He becomes
a memE@c. of the missionary staff and
household. The missionary wants con-
yerts; the hanger-on wants some lux
uries. 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 buying or kidnapping children and
keeping and teaching them. Hiring
converts and buying children are ex-
pensive, but the better class of mis-
sionaries, we'll suppKed with money,
who undeT-a md the Chinese usages,
hire and buy and show results. Good
don't allow kidnapping,
but most of the missionaries, while
good people themselves, don't know
how bad their native staff is. 1t is
the native staff, under the lead of the
tough interpreter, who does the kid
mapping and the missionaries are
fooled.
How it is Done.
This is the way it is done: One of
the interpreters sees a child, a girl, !
ten or twelve years old, and finds out
she is not we'll watched and cared for; /
that her parents are poor or careless /
people, not likely to make much of
fuss at her disappearance. He in
veigles the child into a visit to the
mission and often force is used The
sees the child and is told
some fairy tale by the unscrupulous
interpreter, that the child wishes to
become Christian, that she wants
to live at the mission and be in
structed, or some other invention
which seems plausible to the ignorance /
and zeal of the missionary, and some |
thing is added to show the Importance !
of guarding the new candidate from |
capture by the heather 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 can, and the child-well., the less
the criminal is followed here the bet /
Ter. The interpreter practically gets
the girl. She is his slave for the time |
being and he plays the missionary to
keep her safely out of sight until he
can sell her and get the money for |
1er Then the missionary is fooled
again and the process is repeated as
frequently as possible.
A Great Industry.
1t is great industry for the nm
'crupulous Interpreters, who live bet
Ter, have more pleasure and make
more money with less work under the
protection of the mission that most
'f the good people of their town.
Inc burning of the missions freed
some OF the girl captives, who told the
stories of their kidnapping. confine-
Inent ana indignities to which they
we're supJected- The stories spread and
the Indignation of ali good
people. This started the great riot
and the mob attacked the missionaries
and Interpreters Unfortunately.
Best Peoples Views.
efhe best people did not accuse the
MISSIONARIES OF any Intentional wrong
and would not have harmed them. in.
lenolns only to send them away. so
they could no longer be induced nv
he wicked interpreters to help them in
defenseless young girls. All
agreed that it was right to kill the
langer-on guilty of the kidnapping,
IL is the law and custom that
anyone may do so in China. The go
srnor of Fo KEN sent ], 900 soldiers I'm
o Min river to quell the riots and re-
store order, but the bandits Joined
With the rabble and whipped the SOL
liers. The soldiers lost half thei,.
number and had TO retreat Ar the
line the paper was printed q was said
he whole section was in the control
If the mob and there was great fear
hat IL elsewhere the people hear of the
state of affairs at Ku Cheng there
would be great trouble for the mis-