Evening star., 1901-10-17
NO PEACE FOR CHINA.
Native Editor Says Worse Than the
Boxer Rising May Happen.


Boxer Rising May Happen.
From the Shanghai Mercury, September 13.
The Universal Gazette claims that mis-
sionary troubles are bound to break out
afresh. The Boxer uprising was due to
long and growing enmity between the con-
verts and people. The result was that
10000 or 10000 Christians fell, the allies
came to Pekin to quell the disorder, build
the burnt churches, build monuments over
the graves Of the murdered missionaries,
punish the officials and gentry who abetted
the Boxers, in fact, the missionaries got
everything they desired CD
Some say that after such a punishment
there will be no more troubles, and foreign
ers preaching in China may sleep on lofty
pillow without anxiety. The editor is of a
different mind and replies: "If things are
not differently managed it will not be many
years before calamity a thousand-fold
worse than the Boxers will again over
whelm the churches, and why? Because
there has arisen a vicious distinction be-
tween convert subjects and ordinary sub
Jects which has even found its way into
it is said, must be protected. Those who
are not converts hear the words with a
suspicion that they are not to be prot
At any rate, that the convert subjects are
T..
But the officials make a big mistake when
they lay the blame on the missionaries for
siding with their converts. For If China
could but only hold the scales of justice
evenly and love her people, all this appeal
ing for protection to outsiders would as
matter of course cease. If our own officials
were known to be honest, where would be
the necessity of outside interference? There
would be no encroachment on their author
ity if the officials understood the limits Of
their power and the need of promptitude in
settling cases.
Yesterdays paper told of Jung LUIS
friends enemy. failing to get justice for
the attack made upon his shop and as
sistants by his Jung Lus) henchman, re-
solving to enter the church, whereupon
even Jung Lu took fright. Now even If
this report is untrue it shows the general
opinion that even the highest in the land
fear the church.
Another instance in point comes from
Kuei An-hsien, in Chekiang. An old wo-
man lost her child and applied to a for
tune teller for help. She told her to go
south and she would find 1t. She went
south and, 10, she came to a church, where
she inquired after her child. The church
people said they had not seen 1t. Shortly
after the woman found the child on the
north, and, thinking it would please the
church people, informed them of the fact
They, however, were angry, suspecting the
woman of design to stir up a riot, and
had her sent to the yamen. The official
gave her 300 blows, which was entirely be-
yond the intention of the church people
who merely wished to caution the woman
Herein the official showed his fattery of
the foreigners.
Another case comes from Sungkiang Of
this province scholar had rented a
house to a man who after while would
neither pay the rent nor vacate the prem
ises. The scholar entered a suit against
the tenant, but the official would not at
tend to the case at all. The willy scholar
was not to be non-suited in that fashion.
He handed in a second petition in which
he adopted the style of church people,"
and the official opened his eyes and did
him justice forthwith. The official then
asked him which he belonged to-the Pro-
testants or the Catholics. He replied: "To
neither; l am Confucianist." And why,
then, did you write that title, church
people? Because I knew that without
that magic name 1 would not get Justice"