The Republican., 1900-08-30
THE CHINESE TROUBLES.
Europeans Regarded rs ImpOIite for
Trying to Christianize the
Natives.

An educated Chinaman, lately on
visit to London, submitted to an inter
view there and gave utterance to the
following views on the present troubles
Ill his native country:
Europeans are very great people,
and the Anglo-SaXon division of them
is, in my humble opinion. by far the
greatest and most truly enlightened.
Europeans generally, and you Anglo
SaXons particularly, have two faults:
You are not polite and you cannot see
life whole. You are impolite because
you persistently strive to force your
views, practices and customs upon peo-
pie to whom they are distasteful; you
cannot see life whole because YOU de-
cline to regard it from any other
standpoint than your own. That, be-
Heve me, is at the root of the present
and all other troubles, as between
China and what you modestly call the
civilized world. There is considerable
presumption in your use of that phrase
Dy the way. Seeing that our civiliza-
ton, or, as you might say, our barbar-
ism, is some thousands of years older
than your own, how can you tell that Il
is not the natural, logical and inevita,
BILE outcome of a similar civilization to
that you now proudly call yours?
What your missionaries call the
good tidings' is something we do not
require in China. We have no use for
these tidings in my country; and their
wearisome and insistent PRONUNCIATION
is regarded by the educated among us
as an intolerable nuisance, and by the
common herd as merely the cloak by
which you hide devilish Vaccinations,
the aim and object of which are the
dominance of our country, the destruc-
ton of our religion, and the shattering
OF our integrity. Really thoughtful and
educated Cinnamon are as absolutely
indifferent to the religious aspect of
the missionary nuisance as you would
be to the same aspect of parallel nui-
sance if we sent crowds of missionaries
to England to spread the teachings of
our own sacred principles. 1t is polit-
lcal and social import that the vast
majority of Cinnamon attach to the
missionary invasion question.
Now, here is a Chinese pamphlet
which was very freely circulated in nv
native city at the time of the deplora-
bic Tientsin massacre. Let me read
you passage from it. You must know
that the masses, the uneducated masses
in my country credit your missionaries
ana manufacturers with extracting
medicines and silver from the ewes and
hearts of Chinese children, and, in the
case of the silver. from the intestines
of adults also. Now listen to this. and
remember that it was read and believed
by millions and millions at the time of
the Tientsin massacre.
"The reason for extracting ewes is
this: From 100 pounds of Chinese
lead can be extracted eight pounds of
silver and the remaining 90 pounds of
lead can be sold at nearly the original
cost. But the only way to obtain this
silver is by compounding the lead with
the eyes of Cinnamon. The eyes of for
eigners are of no use, hence they do
not take out the eyes of their own peo-
ple'
"Or again, here: Therefore, these
contemplate beings having aroused
our righteous wrath, we, heartily ad-
herring to the kingdom of our sover-
eign. would not only give vent to lit
tie of the hate that will not allow us to
stand under the same heaven with
them, but would make an eternal end
of the distress of being obliged to have
them ever near us. If the temporizing
process is adopted this nonhuman spe-
cies will again increase
"How is it that you will not be
warned? Those passages that l quoted
were not only read and believed by mil
lions and millions of the most intense
ly conservative people in the world in
my country-they were even quoted in
an English book. the name of which l.
forget, but which bought in London
because it dealt with China. No, your
methods are not polite, and, therefore.
not polite. Even your traders do not
work one-half the evil which is inno-
Gently wrought by your missionaries:
innocently, but very arrogantly. But.
there! 1t is our point of view and not
yours; therefore, 1 greatly fear you
will never consider it. And l regret
that, because in the end it spells kill
ing on a large scale. And Europe can
not kill the Chinaman. He is too many
headed. The deduction is as obvious as
it is to be regretted"
Reflections OF Bachelor.