The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-06-11

bucllanan made IN 1870, when Ger
many had France in the DUST
Can all your pe1ants all your schools,
Teach We no newer, better rules
Than thus to answer wrong with wrong
And blindly to perpetuate
The bitter legacy of hate?
ASIA has never yearned for Euro
pean civilization because she SAYS that
her own is the superior. 1t makes for
menral and spiritual development.
While that of Europe is material, gross
and selfish. What truth there is in
this last Indictment may be shown in
the final argument on the lips of every
apologist for the horrors of the foreign
occupation when driven to the wall.
What right" says he, "have the Chi
nese to shut out foreign goods and ma
chlnery?' Thus it's all question Of
the almighty dollar, as the Asiatic NOR
alist declares. If only the stories were
the nightmares of yellow journals! But.
alas, they are true! A British subject in
an article bearing the suggestive title,
The Chinese Wolf and the European
Lamb" describes in The Contemporary
Review his experiences of two or three
weeks following the army of civiliza-
ton from Tien-tsin to Picking. The day
after leaving Tien-tsin he was towed
by untiring coolies through a land
thlckly strewn over with what had
once been human dwellings, but were
become heaps of rubbish "a wave of
DEATH" says the writer, Mr.. E. l. Dill
81, i
away the vestiges of Chinese culture.
Men, women, boys, girls and babes in
arms had been shot, stabbed and hewn
to bits in this labyrinth of streets, and
now on the banks of the river reigned
the peace described by Tacitus. Fire
and sword had put their marks upon
this entire country. The untrampled
corn was rotting in the fields, the pas
lures We're herdless, roofless the ruins
OF houses, the hamlets devoid of in
habitants."
In the main the details given in Mr..
Dillon's article are too terrible to print.
They describe the most cruel and inhu-
man acts the mind can conceive human
creatures inflicting upon the helpless
of their kind. One must turn to the
atrocities of the Duke of Alva in the
Spanish Netherlands for parallel.
Not only Oh the banks of the Pei
30, but also in large cities" says this
writer, 81 have witnessed the manner
in which abandoned houses containing
portable property We're sacked. AS a
rule, none of the inmates We're at home
excepting the dead, who We're often nu-
merous. The few valuables which had
been theirs were swiftly sifted, APP
praised, rolled up in bundles and toll
somely carried off. Very often the re-
mainder was deliberately spoiled, as
guns are spiked perhaps lest the enc
my should profit by them, and some
times the house itself was set on fire.
| was present on several occasions
when this method of Furnishing the CHI
nese was resorted to. Once when we
quilted q village we left Il connaaration
as of Tophet behind us. TO keep the
Boxers from assembling was the Off
cial reason given. and | ought to say
that had no grounds for doubling in
perhaps mistaken motive.'
The coarser forms Of brutality were
not the sum total of the tortureS Wis
tied upon the helpless Chinese by their
civilized conquerors. On the slightest
excuse or upon none at all the Euro
peans, always soldiers of ciyiliza-
ton" applied the goad. Boats towing
supplies to the troops already up the
river We're drawn by coolies when
coolies could be had, but after the
wanton and wholly causeless massacre
of 800 coolies at Talu at the time of
the attack there these poor creatures
| held aloof from the European camps.
| peanS went out into the byways and
highways and drove before them ey-
cry able and frail bodied man they
met, forcing them TO serve as coolies
and perform the most eXhauSting, pro,
\ tracted and dangerous open air work
I that can well be imagined The boats
/ were mostly heavily freighted; the
| stream abounds in shadows, zigZag rs
! and strong currents; the banks are sc
\ high that the human draft horses have
sometimes TO trudge i'll the mud up tc
their waists or to walk for hours il
| pesti!erOuS water
Fancy the feelings of an Englisl
barrister, city man, officer or official il
he were suddenly surrounded by {
gang of armed Cinnamon and obliged
to choose between work of this kline
and instant death. That was what
sometimes happened TO the Chinese
The work was all the more arduous