The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-24
Raymond MeCune on Conditions
In China.
NO CHANCE FOR DEFENSE
LEGATIONS MUST HAVE Sue
CUMBED TO ATTACKS.


u cannot see any possible chance for
the members of the various legations
that are penned up in Pekin, said
Raymond McCune yesterday Mr. Nc
Cune, it will be recalled, returned from
d trip around the world few months
ago, and during the course of his tray
els visited Pekin TO spend the major
portion of two months in China, travel
ing from one point to another. In
speaking in regard to the situation
there he stated that he visited the
American legations in PeNin and Tien
Tsin, and took dinner with Minister
Conger and the consul at the latter
city
While in the Chinese capital he said
that he had been warned that it was
considered dangerous for a white per-
son to walk about the city unsttend-
ed, and as matter of fact just few
weeks prior to his visit to Pekin a
couple of missionaries had been badly
used up by the mobs of Celestials who
had bombarded them with missiles and
otherwise maitreated them.
Chinese Were Peaceable.
Mr.. Nicotine stated that although he
was in the city for several days his
experience was that the Cinnamon
there were very peaceable and inclined
to leave a foreigner alone, providing
he was not a missionary. The antip-
athy displayed toward the average
missionary in China, he said, was very
marked, and both the MongolianS and
Europeans alike seemed to have ii in
for the missionary.
This state of affairs he attributed to
the fact that the fererunners of Chris
tianity seemed to be endowed with the
perpetual habit of getting into hot
water and stirring up strife generally
among the natives. If a convert got
into trouble or thought himself I'M
justly taxed he Immediately took his
grievance to the missionary. with the
result that he, in turn, carried it to the
representative of his country and the
matter was ultimately brought under
the notice of the Chinese government
to be, in all probability, adjusted in
favor of the petitioner
This apparent favoritism had the eff
feet of stirring up strife among the less
favored heather, with the result that
there was much bad blood in evidence
all the time.
Converts After "Snaps."
w ucn II came uONn 10 tIc Ciooo VI
converts that were gathered in by The
proselyters, Mr.. McCune stated that
from what he could gather from the
white residents of China, the professeo
Monaghan Christians were composed OF
the worst elements who were out from
first to last for soft snaps" He was
equally severe in regard to the Armen-
ianS with whom he came into contact
during his visit to Greece.
In their case he went as far as tC
state that one Turk was the equal NOR
ally of four ArmenianS. and that al
the agitation that had been brought &c
bear upon the subject of their persecu-
ton was responsible for the massacres
that followed. This state of affairs, he
said, was being practically duplicated
in China today, and the missionaries
were the ones TO thank for the exist
ing state of horror now reigning in the
Orient
Continuing, ne said that there was NJ
doubt in mis- mind that by this time al
the whites in Pekin had fallen victim:
to the fanaticism of the mob. for the
legations were at the best defended by
low walls which enclosed them in tht
heart of the city adjacent to the rOya
palace. No matter how brave NIGH
be the defenders, the odds were too
great
Mr.. McCCne has just returned from {
sOjourn in the east, where . has beer
studying for the past few months witt
the object in view of entering Columbia
university in the fall He left E4st nigh
for Butte