The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-24
Summertime Frockings


there should not be harmony between the
people and the adherents Of foreign re
ligions. The whole trouble arises from
lawless rufflans fabricating baseless stor
| les.
I'VE command the Manchu generals
the viceroys and governors everywhere tC
issue proclamations clearly explaining tc
the people that they must on no account
| give car to such idle tales and wantonly
cause trouble"
This edict was plain spoken enough to
serve its purpose, but it lost its effect
from the fact that the individual man
darins made it public in their own way.
One of them posted the proclamation
faithfully and added TO it a brief address
of his own, in which he urged that the
foreigners should in no way be molested,
| winding up with the expressed hope that
none of his own people would display the
bad taste of having anything whatever to
do with them.
On another occasion a missionary lead
ing a native child was attacked and badly
beaten in the street At the demand Of the
American secretary of legation the Chi
nese magistrate disciplined the leaders OF
the mob and warned the others not to
further molest the Christians, saying that
no self-respectng person would go near
them.
From these incidents 1t will be seen
that the enmity against foreigners is by
no means confined to the lower classes.
In fact, it is the testimony of those who
have had long experience in China that
the educated men and officials are, as a
rule. the most virulent opponents of the
missionaries. DR.. W. A P. Martin, the
veteran president OF Tung-Wen college,
saws. in speaking of the subject:
1.-The instigators of mobs are generally
mandarins or members of the student
class. who seek to fortify the public mind
against the influx of foreign ideas by ac-
cusing foreigners of horrible crimes. The
most infiammatory, though not the most
revolving, of these accusations, is that
of kidnapping children and taking their
eyes, blood and fat for the preparation
of magical drugs. Other forms Of inn
morality are too familiar in the expert
ence of the native to excite any strong
feeling. Kidnapping, murder and magic
are required to fire the loyal heart"
As a consequence Of the determined &C
ton of the powers in defence OF their
AiS INV ttt,saiAoN NA4@AaA
az this time was put down with consid-
siderable severity 10y the imperial govern
ment The troubles had an injurious ef-
feet, however. by alternating many of the
converts and students. among whom the
missionaries had been laboring. The latter
continued TO work as energeticaily as be
fore. and met with no further organized
opposition until 1893.
s In that year lawlessuess reiEned So
preme in many parts of China, and the
sentiment OF opposition 10 the foreigners
was stronger than ever before on account
Of the reverses suffered in the war with
Japan. This I'll feeling took the usual
form Of attack upon the missionaries and
the native converts.
During the summer OF 1875 there were
serious riots against the missionaries az
Chen-Tsu Sze-Chuen, FooChow and other
points. in the course OF which = number
OF native converts were killed. On Az
gust / the series of outrages eliminated
in the killing of a party OF missionaries
stationed at Huns-Tsu. These Christians
we're attacked without warning. Some %
them were butchered N their beds; Others
were tortured TO death with spears and
their bodies burned. Several OF these mis-
sionaries were women. but no mercy was
shown them on thai account, and they ali
persisted together in the heroic attempt % I
shield their native charges and 70 defend
the children ot some OF the mission aries +
themselves These martyrs % the mission
cause are now buried IN the local Gene (
terry. near tho station. and their graves ]
are marked oy appropriate monuments
TIE outbreaks % 1885 occurred a. widely 1
Missions. from Pekin 10 West 4
China and were ne result q concerted /
against foreigners by the So i
,iety known as tae 'sYegetarians- The
nsssacTes led 20 another protest on the
ce-t az the foreign representative and !
another imperial proc!anstton. as she Re-
suit OF which the mob attacks ceased toE
.he time sslne n Is2s fhere were a num- I
Der q outbreaks. ard this yesr promises
: repetition a. the scenes q lSsi and iSssS
There has been sca-csly year since
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