Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-15
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The Northwestern Christian Advo-
cate recently1published a. statement by
Rev. @. H. Cady, of the west China
mission, "a we'll informed and we'll
known missionary The statement
leads the Advocate to revise its editor
ial opinion -condemnatory Of the action
OF Great Britain and Germany In de-
manding the punishment OF the guilty
] Chinese officials. In an editorial.
III Punishment For China" the Ad-
~vocate now declares:
.Ihs awful narrative compels rs to
revise u opinion and acquiesce in that
demand, were as 1t is. High officials
IN China trstigated This massacre and
devised or consented to the unspeak-
able fortunes that have been visited.
upon our helpless American men. wo-
me and children. These guilty
wretches mus. be convicted and pun
ished so severely that all the world
shall know of the righteous wrath of
appalled, civilization. The omission OF
that penalty would be a wrong against
Christian civilization for the next cen-
tury."
of the daily papers.
5NAN lsa Navy HAuOlcSG liOHl TIE GlIls
press dowager's imperial edict of June
20, ordering that all missionaries, ma
tive converts, foreign merchants and
officials to be painfully extirpatei."
He adds: will the American peo-
pie permit such monsters as the m
press dowager, Prince Tuan. Hang vi.
Yungs Lu, Yu Hsien, the governor of
Honan, who instigated atrocities that
cannot ven be mentioned in public, to
go unpunlshedo. Are the fiends who
raped our women to get OFF scot free?"
He enumerates the cases of massacre,
torture. outrage. He reiterates the
fact hat these tortured men, outraged
women. murdered children, are Ameri-
can citizens. He cannot tell all, nor
half; he can only hin at u~nspeakable
atrocities. He wishes he had the presi-
dents ear for one-half hour to speak
what cannot be written.
He 1ecites some episodes: The mis-
%sionaries al Pao Ting Flu We're turned
out of the governors yamen in order
that the murder might not litter up the
official residence. DIR. and Mrs. Hodge,
DR.. Taylor and Mr.. and Mrs. Simcox,
of the Presbyterian mission. We're mas
sacred by the mob. a little girl was
sliced to pieces before her pleading
mothers eyes. Eleven American citi-
zens met death in Pao Ting Flu. The
bodies of all We're horribly mutiiated,
and in the case of the ladies their
bodies were opened nom the lower to
the upper part of the trunk"
And his recital of the terrible OUT
RACES fill a column of space.
Mr.. Cady concludes: The attitude OF
Emperor William is deserving of all
praise. He is the only ruler who has
met this crisis in a dignified and firm
manner"
Theoretically you would straighten
out this Chinese atrocity by the laws OF
love. Even now more men and women
are anxious to 90 to hin and diesas
martyrs, if necessary, in preaching the
doctrine of turning the other cheek
But in the meantime does not the edi-
torial position of the Advocate, the
words of Rev. Cady. W. ven the In
sane 6?l utterances of the German ems
peror, saver of sense. 1t even seems to
occur to Mr.. Cady that love is founded
on respect. 1T would seem that the
German emperor in future proposes
that his missionaries shall be accorded
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