The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-18


women from regarding them with re-
spect.
Were this the only feature Of Euro
pean diplomacy or conduct in the Orient
which might be regarded unfavorably by
any human people, 1t would be hard
enough to endure. But it has now been
made so apparent that history will not
fan to record it. that the attitude of the
so-called evangelizing nations toward the
mass Of the Chinese people, resulting
from the late Boxer disturbance, has
been marked by brutality which would
stir the blood even of insensate savages.
lndiscriminate murder and pillage have
eventuated from the supposed efforts of
Europeans to suppress the Boxer rebel
ed in its issue of yesterday. on the au-
thority of one of the leading and most
conservative periodicals in Europe, the
London Contemporary Review, should
details known no American would be
willing to lend the sanction of his ma
ton to the conduct of the governments
Of Europe in China which would be in
volved in allowing American troops to re-
main in that country even a single hour
1t is a most revolving recital. The writer
OF it is known and esteemed in literature.
lie verif1es his facts by the attachment
Of his signature. No anonymous presen-
tatlon of such statements would be toll
Grated for an instant by any responsible
publication
What, for instance, does the reader
think OF statements such as these, taken
frori the body of the article in the Con-
temporary Review? Mr. Dillon Is de-
scribing what had come under his own
eyes:
speak as an eye witness when I say,
1 10, example, that over and over again
me cutters of the city of Tung-Tschau
ran red with blood, and I sometimes
found it impossible to go my way with
out out getting ;e my 7E boots despatched with
Vate houses and court yards without dead
pcdles and pools of dark blood Amid a
native popula ton whose very souls duak-
cd with fear at sight of rifle, revolver
or military uniform, a reign of red terror.
was lnaugurated for which there seems
no adequate motive. Even if all the Chi
reese within the city walls had risen in
reVoi5 sgalnst the foreigners, the latter
would nave quelled it almost without an
enort yet they were kept with a Damo-
cleS sword continually falling on their
neads- No natives life or property was
Sate Tor an hour. Men [ had been speak
Ing to before lunch were in their graves
by Sundown, and no mortal will ever
Know the reason why The thirst OF
blood had made men mad
VIII there be any attempt at impeach-
ment of the credibility of this author?
Not at all. There is no one responsible
for what has happened War-that de-
lightful exposition of aroused patriotism
and its dogs have been loosed on the
Chinese people, and Christian evangelical
ton goes hand in hand with such dis
plays of human savagery. Nay, we are
asked to believe that the one is the nee
essary complement of the other; and that
the murder and outrage of women is
necessary incident of the effort at paci-
flying a country driven to the verge of
frenzy by the exactions of the "civilizodr
nations
1t probably is not possible for the
American troops to wholly withdraw at
this time, or for American diplomac;- to
cease its efforts at bringing about ar
agreement between the representatives of
barbarian China and civilized and civil
ing Europe; but the sooner our national
skirts are cleared of all possibIitz OF
further stain by contact with such
scenes of sodden ruffianism, the bettcr
pleased this people will be- It will Ions
remain an occasion for rejoicing on 6he
part of every American thas cur flag i'll
China has not had its shabby cast upon
anything like such scenes, enacted By
either the civil or military representa-
tives of this people