The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-19

Great Britain continued to send it.,
| When "a great shipload of it was de-
! stroyed by the Chinese, the English de-
! manded indemnity, which the Chinese
| refused to pay, and so there was war,
| The Chinese were Worsted, and We're
| finally compelled to pay still larger
| indemnity, to cede the island of Hong
| Kong to the British, and to open a
| number of ports to foreign trade. l
have repeatedly heard Englishmen de-
clare that the thought of that war, and
| the wrong thus done to heather peo-
pie by a Christian government, made
them blush for their country
| 1t is not strange that the Chinese
should reason that if might makes right
in the intercourse of nations, then, If
the Chinese could only muster force
enough to defy the world, they would
be justified in using any means in their
power to drive the foreign devils"
from the land.
AMERICAN EXCLUSION ACT.
Although America had no desire to
take hand in the game of robbery,
whereby China's territory was to be
parceled out among the nations, still
she is not guiltless. When Mr.. Burlin-
game made the treaty with China he
invited laborers to come to the United
States, and promised them protection
They accepted the Invitation and came
in crowds, and built the Pacific rail
roads, which, it was acknowledged,
could not have been built without
them. For while they were praised
for their industry and patience, but
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country for which they had done so
much, and their brothers and friends
also wished to come and work, the cry
was raised, THE Chinese must go!"
Laws We're made, excluding them from
the country, and mobs were raised in
many places which destroyed the prop
erty and took the lives of these poor,
quiet, unoffending people who could
make but little resistance How much
worse were the mobS and riots of the
ignorant and superstitious Boxers. who
believed that they were fighting for the
good and the life of their country, than
these outrages in a Christian land,
against an inoffensive people, by those
who should have known better?
THE MISSIONARY QUESTION.
I have already spoken of the Romish
missionaries; but it was only when
their propagandism took political
character that their course can be
blamed as bringing on the trouble. Ev-
cry one knows that Protestant mission
aries never give the Chinese that cause
for fearing and hating them. The
charge has been made that they have
reused the antagonsm of the Chinese
by forcing a foreign religion upon them
in place of their own. Christianity has
not been forced upon them It's claims
have been presented clearly and forci-
bly,; but only when the natives have
been convinced OF its truth, and have
wished to accept it, have they been re-
ceived into the church To be sure,
there has been the antagonism that
must always exist between Christiani-
ty and heathenism, and there has been
persecution of Christians by heather
neighbors. But the missionaries al |
ways enjoin forbearance, and not unfre- Il
quently the heather have been con-
WINGED of the truth of Christianity by |
the patience and meekness of the Chris |
tians under persecution. Moreover |
those who are advising that missiona-
ries should be sent out of China should |
that the prevalence of the
principles of Christianity in that land |
is the only guarantee for their own
safety there.
Never until all foreigners, whether
engaged In trade or mining or laying |
out railroads and telegraph lines, are
ready to abandon their schemes and re-
tire from China, can those who have
been working purely for the good of the J
Chinese by preaching to them the Cos
pei of peace, and opening to them a |
door of hope for this world and for the
life to come, consent to abandon their
work. IF the missionaries We're to go |
what of the tens of thousands of ma
tive Christians? Shall they be forsak-
en- by their teachers and guides, and
left to fall prey to those fanatics who
have already put many of them to
death, and who would be only too glad
to exterminate, to a man, the followers
of Christ? Not for one moment could
any lover of humanity advocate such a
course.