The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-25
THE HEATHEN'S VIEW POINT.

present troubles in the Celestial en-
! plre- This interview gives an insight
into the Chinese side of the case and
explains the hostility to the foreigners.
! The Chinaman said:
we are pretty fairly well informed
mere about what is going on at home.
! While our people are not great cores
/ pondentS as a class, we are in close
touch ali the time through various
channels. The news is spread through
ali Chinatown every day. We read
your papers. but we know how much
10 believe and what not 10 believe in
them. Every mail brings us direct news
from nome. and this is spread by word
OF mouth and bulletin
China is all same as United States
/ You don't want the foreigner here: we
don't want him there. Foreigner comes
/ just the same We have as much right
| 70 say you Shan't come to our country
! as you have 10 say we shan't come here
we nave mobs in China same as YOU
nave them here. The ignorant and pre-
! JUDGED people have risen against the
foreigner there the same as ignorant
and prejudiced people here have risen
against the foreigner here. we kin:
you Kill. Both make big row."
But the Boxers are an organized DO
llucal and military party"
90 was your knOWnOthing party. II
was against the foreigner. Its war cry
| was all same as the Boxers. America
for Americans for Chinese
And your Knownothings prosecuted
: and murdered people who didn't be-
lieve as they did. Lots of your people
are as bad as the Boxers, and would
murder If they dared-wOrse than the
| Boxers, because we attend TO our bust
ness and don't harm anybody
we are not trying to destroy your
rehglon; we are not grabbing land and
| running new kinds of roads through
your graveyards and seizing all sorts
OF concessions through corrupt govern
mental ofnclals. We are not irving to
turn your country upside down and
make ii like our country.
Go among my people here and see
/ how they live. They work hard and
live poorly and mind their own business
and hurt nobody. Chinatown TODAY is
more orderly and gives the police less
trouble than any other quarter of the
CITY, You know that There are bad
Chinese as there are bad Americans
and bad people in any country. But the
I trouble among us is not made by Chi
nese The Chinese are a quiet and or
DERBY people who love to keep to them
selves
The only reason we are not wanted
here is because we work and live
cheaply, and you are afraid of us be-
cause we work. In my country we are
afraid of you because You steal The
foreigner in my country is a robber-
ne robs US of our highways, of our ma
tlonallty, of our gods We are called
heather here; we there consider you
the heather. But we are an older CT
vlllzation than yOu-than all the rest of
the world"
THE missionary doesn't usually hurt
anybody" l put in.
The missionary is really at the bot
tom of all the trouble between China
and the foreigner. You say he doesn't
hurt-he wounds at every step He
hurts more than guns and swords, for
he treads upon our sacred religion, up
on the most cherished institutions-in-
situations under which our people lived,
thrived and were happy and multiplied
exceedingly beyond the rest of the
world before your Jesus was ever heard
OF and while your so-called Christians
were burning each other alive and STAY
ing and tOrturing each other wherever
their Bible was known
The missionary in our land is a pest.
He is proud, cOnceited, insolent and
oVerbearing man, who treats us as if
we were wild men and ignorant out
laws, instead of men superior to him
self Look at your cold, purse-proud
preachers here among yourselves and
you may have some idea of the char
acter of their fanatical representatives
abroad.
THE Chinese faith is assaiIed and
undermined and neighbors set against
each other by all sorts Of doctrines, no
two agreeing with each other, and by
men and women who are always
wrangling among themselves.
These missionaries come with smiles
i
an atmosphere of doubt and diSSenSiOnS
and a trail of human blood. They have
no business in China. We never asked
for them. We merely wanted to be let
alone. We wanted them to get out If
! they didn't get out it wasn't because
they hadn't plenty of warning
1T was the same as if we had sent a
crowd of our priests here and built joss
houses and coaxed and hired your little
children and women and weak-minde6
men to desecrate your churches and
, throw down your grave stones, and all
that, setting your people one against
the other and all against your govern
! ment.
Il said trail of blood, because be
hind the missionary came the grabbeI
and robber from every country, yours
! included. And they spread from the
seaports, forced by united navies, al
over the country, grabbing everything
in sight, even the powers OF govern
+ ment, under the preteXts of civilization
and trade. Thus the people, simple
minded and PEACEFUL people not Civ
en- to warfare, but to the calm pursuits
of trade and intellectual development
: a whole people. greater than all of the
rest of the world, grew restless, then re-
sentful, and finally assumed the de-
fensive.
E Thus the missionary, instead of SOW.
ing peace and human love among man
! kind, has sOwed the seed of strife anC
!, has put a sword in every mans hand
: wherewitr to STAY his neighbor. Thu
: foreign robbers must combine to ROT
! us. but as soon as that is over they vii
: fall to robbing each other"
l You are evidently not in cheerful
o frame of mind as to the situation"
n observed, as he paused to mop up TIL
: PRESENTATION.
Would you be if you were thousand
e of miles away from your own countr,
t and knew that anarchy prevailed a
: home, and that murder and wholeSal
V butchery prevailed in the streets o
your native city where lived your fam
r ily and friends?
n But let me say one thing. The Chi
Il nese people will never be Subdued b.
), any foreign power; no, nor by all tn
q | foreign powers put lOStlHfI. L lie IOD
= bers have long given us indications o
II what we might expect soon. and W
; have rapidly become in a measure pre-
pared for this united raid
I'VE are no longer helpless in on
former blind security. An army of 100
coo men may be landed and marche
, into China, may take Pekin; bu
Z wherever they are they viii be prison
e ers, the same as were the English an
d French who interfered in the fOrme