New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-24

carnations They are called the old women who
open the chest In case of funerals the
religious teachers eject all the relatives and
friends from the house, and the corpse is put
into the coffin with closed doors. Both eyes are
secretly taken out and the oTifCe sealed up with
a plaster. The reason for extracting the eyes
Is this: From one hundred pounds of Chinese
lead can be extracted eight pounds OF silver,
and the remaining ninety-two pounds Of lead
can be sold at the original cost. But the only
way TO obtain this silver is by compromising
the lead with the eyes of Cinnamon The ewes
OF foreigners are of no use for this purpose.
1t is impossible to enumerate all their
practices If we seek for the general motive
which leads to them. il is fixed determination
utterly 10 peto2t our people and under false
pretence Of religion to extermiuate them. Thus
they wish to take possession of the Middle
Kingdom"
The Man Most Distressed in Heart fortifes
his arguments by great array Of quotations
from other native writer's. one Of these reads:
in the kingdom of O-Kwo-Er they constantly
PRACTISE killing Een to sacrifice Jesus. in
praying for happiness When a PRINCIPAL
dies they offer one thousand men as a
sacrifice To procure victims they catch for
eIgners and traders coming into their borders,
anu If these are not sufficient they seize trav-
eliers' so mat no one dares to go to market
alone, tor fear Of being carried off. 1t is con-
sIdered honorable To have many wives The
principal man IS allowed three thousand" An
other author writes. The ManiChean sect
neither eat meat nor drink wine They meet at
p,gnU to crafty their filthy lusts.' Another
vEracIous scribe, author of The Mirror of the
west" says: In England they have the art OF
cutting out paper men and horses and bv burn
forming them mo real men and horses. They
may, however be dissolved by beating a gong.
Or Dy dIscharglng large guns at them They
may also be dissolved by spOuting water over
JneIn."
And so on, ad nauseam, hundred other native
writer's being called in evidence To sunStantiate
the charges laid against tine dissoIute and
abandoned Uon-human species" The citations
from these writer's exceed in indeCenCy anything
unaJ can be imagined, and are too utterly abom-
Unable TO be even limited at.
The missionary translators of The Death
BLOW 10 Corrupt Doctrines regard the book as
NOT only shows tthey claim in a vivid light the
Ieat animus of those who have arrayed them
serves against foreigners but reveals their pur-
pV--a and plans and exposes the reckless and
ulaDolIcal arts by which they seek 20 rnanIrfact-
uiV a pubic sentiment that VIII be ready for
deeds of violence and blood. The book shows
now the truth may be perverted and distorted
uuul 1t becomes in the hands of designing men
potent agency of evil
FINALLY say the transatOrs. cit should be
borne III mind that the book is directed against
foreigners generally. and all intercourse with
JneHi-social, commercial and national ReIig-
uInUS Of the Chinese is essentially political and
national To them the idea that Christianity
IS prupagated from benevolent motives is in
conceivable. They almost universally regard il
as Il political agency. used by foreigners for the
accomplishment of selfish and political ends"
The book is a terrible one. but thanks are due
the JranslatOrs for having shown us by irs
means Just IN what light the foreigner is re-
Earded by the people of TIA Using KwOh',-
''lne country of the Great Pure Dynasty"
China.