Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-26

, want to be let alone. We want to be
free to enjoy our beautiful country and
the fruits of our centuries of ex-
perience. When We ask you to go
away you refuse, and you even
threaten us if we do not give you our
harbors, our land, our towns.
And now, having carefully con-
sidered the matter, we of the so-called
boxers society have decided that the
only way to get rid of you is to kill
you. We are not naturally blood
thirsty. We certainly are not thieves.
But when persuasion and argument
and appeals to your sense of justice
are Of no avail, We find ourselves face
to face with the fact that the only re-
source is to put you out of existence.
"COnsider your missionaries. They
come, as I have said, with a new
religion, upon the main principles of
which they are bitterly divided among
themselves. They tell US that unless
we accept their doctrines we shall
suffer eternal punishment. They
brighten our children and the most
Weak-minded of our older people, and
create all kinds of dissension between
families and individuals No wonder
that we will not tolerate them.
eff we want your railways and ma
chimes we could, of course, buy them;
but we do not We have no use for
them. We have learned to do without
them. Yet you say you will force us
n hnyy thnTo hot ~
Is that just? | say it is an imper
tinence-an outrage. A good deal is
made of the fact that we are not
soldiers. Well, We have ceased to be
soldiers because we have become
civilized. War is barbarism. The
effect of our having arrived at our
present stage of civilization is that we
have increased and multiplied beyond
every other race on the face of the
earth. In spite of our great mortality
(Which seems to be very shocking to
you, although we recognize in it only a
wise provision OF nature), the Chinese
race is increasing at greater rate
than any other people in the world
1--WE could if we chose Oyerwhelm
the rest of mankind That we do not
do so is due to the perfection Of our
civilization, our philosophy and our
morals. We number four hundred
million human beings, and who could
withstand us if we chose to assert our
power? Do you think we are I'M
conscious of it? On the contrary, we
understand it only too we'll. Let the
white races Of the earth appreciate the
fact that we and not they are its
masters.
There have been twenty so-calIed
successful invasions of China. But
what has happened? Have invaders
dominated the Chinese? No. The
conquered have absorbed their con-
querors. All have become Chinese
The very Jews who have come among
us have been absorbed by our race-a
thing which has never happened else
where
Let me repeat that all the forces
which divide men in the west have
practically no existence in China
Politics, religion, private ambitions,
the necessity for expansion, land
hunger, gold-hunger-alI these have
no existence in China. You think
that because the Chinaman is inert,
careless and simple, he is a child
There never was a greater mistake
He has learned the secret of being
happy. His life is placid and nothing
troubles him so long as his conscience
is clear. There you have our character
in a sentence. Let us alone, and we
will let YOU alone. London Exnress.