The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1901-01-31
Why cHlMAMen NATE FOREIGNERS.

They Lock Upon Opism . Great Curse
and Ham. nor-iEn-rs for the De.,ruc-
tion IL Brings.
Nebraska Independent.
A missionary In q speech In New
York stated that the chief cause of
hatred Of foreigners In China aro-e
from what Ia called the opium war.
All decent Cinnamon look upon OPT
um a. the greatest curse that ever
befeil the nation and they lay the
blame for the destruct ion that it
causes upon the "foreign devils"
They all know that the import of
opium was forbidden by their EN-
peror and that England waged fierce
and cruel war upon the Chinese un-
til the emperor was forced to with
draw the decree. 1t Is said that about
800, 100000 worth of opium is an
nually consumed i'm China. This
terrible financial drain on so poor a
people Is the cause Of China's ex-
treme poverty. Not only do the
better part Of the Chinese curse the
day that opium was forced upon
them, but the sufferers from it al
80 learn to hate foreigner with a
hatred that has no parallel elsewhere
in the world. All this opium ls
shipped into China from India. The
English owners of the poppy fields
roll in wealth, call themselves Chris
tians and patronize the churches,
while the victims of their business
die by the million after suffering the
most horrible tortures ever inflicted
upon the human body.
Carpenter, in one of his recent let
ters from China, describes some of
the effects of opium upon the Chi
nese. He says: "The craze for the
drug is beyond description. l am
told that Chinese mothers often sell
their little girls to buy opium. Fa-
theirs sell their SONS and husbands
their wives. DR.. Beebe, who il in
charge of the big hospital at Nam
king, said that he had a neighb n
who was an opium smoker. He spent
all of his money in gratifying the
taste, and when that was gone sold
his three children, one after the 9th
er, and finally his wife, to satisfy
his opium hunger.
81 sit and watch the Chinese dew
lis at their hellish work and as I do
80 1t seems to me that I can see the
pictures of the ruins which 1t is to
create as it is scattered through
out the Chinese empire. l can see
dens in which scores of haggard eyed,
yellow faced mortals are lying and
smoking away the wages which
should go to the support of their
families. There are women as we'll
as men, and children as we'll a.
grown-ups. Here is mother with
her baby ut her feet lying before the
opium lamp. The pipe has fallen
from her mouth and the little one
is playing with 1t, sucking it. 1 can
see the opium parlOrs OF the rich and
The hells of vice which l have seen
at Shanghai-a score Of pictures"
Is it any wonder that the Chi
nese hate foreigners, when they view
the miseries that foreigners have
brought upon them for the sake of
gold? Is it wonder that they are
hard to convince that there can be
anything good in Christian civili-
zation that has wrought such misery
and woe in their midst? The gov
ernment that did this awful wicked.
ness now demands that the sOver-
eighty of China shall be turned over
to 1t and other nations protesting
the same creed. If China fails tC
keep such a cOntract-one that she
was compelled to make by superior
fOrce-where is the mOralist who
can blame her? Meantime about
six thousand of our troops are ir
China. If they stay until these. ne
gotiatiOns are all completed, they
will never see the green fields Of
America again. They will die il
China Of old age.