The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-11

I fury the Emperor Hung WI eXtermi-
/ mated a noble family and sentenced to
cruel deaths $4,000 men and women
merely on suspicion of plotting against
his throne.
All the emperors of China We're chips
off the same block, if the historical
records are true-all cruel, relentless.
merciless. Even so late as 1913. during
the reign of Kia King, a conspirator
who came near to seizing the emperor
suffered death by the horrible process
of ''slicing,' which consists in cutting
off small portions of the culprit's body,
face limbs at stated intervals, until
he literally dies by inches This same
kia King sent 10000 rebels to the exc
cution block, and it was he who, in 1916,
because of some trifling breach of court
etiquette, refused to see Lord Amherst
and his embassy from England and
compelled them to retrace their steps
to the coast in deep humiliation.
Although the Chinese looked upon all
outside peoples as "barbarianS" and
their hatred of them was deeply in
grained, they had not made them OBJ
jects of attack except in certain spo-
radio cases of local origin Always,
however, there existed the hatred of
the native convert, and many thou
sands of Chinese Christians have per-
ished by the sword.
When war broke out between Eng
land and China, about so years ago,
the Chinese promptly offered rewards
for the heads of all Englishmen cap
tured. A party of six foreigners was
murdered near Canton in December,
1S47, and stray travellers were put to
death wherever found; but for all these
outrages the government was sternly
called to account and made to pay in
IDENTITIES. During the TAPPING rebel
lion the cruelties practiced were of the
most horrible description, both by the
rebels and the imperial troops. and
proved conclusively that mercy has no
part in the Chinese composition.
One of the first official acts of
Kwang-Su, the present emperor, was to
order an indemnity of 20O,0 900 taels for
the murder of an Englishman who was
killed in a remote part of the empire,
followed by a proclamation that for
eigners should everywhere receive pro-
lection.
In 1860. 26 English subjects were tax
Ell and tortured on the road from Tien-
tsin to Picking. Thirteen of them died
from their injuries. The Chinese gov
eminent disavowed all responsibility
for or connection with this act, as it
did for the later horrible massacre at
Tien-tsin, but it was forced to award
compensation and punish the alleged
Inc 11en-ISln
was the first attempt upon the lives of
unarmed foreigners which had reached
the proportions of a massacre in many
years. 1t took place in June, 1870, but
a few months after the death of Mr..
Burlingame, who was then on his ia
nous mission of peace in behalf of
China to foreign lands. 1t may have
been occasioned indirectly by the in
evitable revulsion to which Cinnamon
are subject whenever they have made
any concession to foreign opinion, but
was directly owing to the fanaticism of
the lower class people of Tien-tsin.
AS many of the children in the found
ling asylum conducted by the Sisters of
Mercy had died of an epidemic, it was
given out that they had been murdered
for the sake of their eyes, which were
to be Transmitted into silver. This alb
surd story was believed, and the IA
natics attacked and destroyed the or
phanage, cathedral and French consul
ate, numbering IS French, including
several Sisters of Mercy and two Rus
slams. France at that time was unable
to exact reparation, but by imperial