The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-12-20


This abominable judiciary is forced
upon this inoffenslve people by the
Great Powers of Europe.
The people of the Celestial Empire
are being treated by the Occidental
world in manner not above reproach:
In the matter of the Mixed Court, for
eign residents of the treaty ports elect
a Municipal Council. who separately
imposes taxes and appoints expendi-
lures independently of the Chinese.
In itself a prepOsterOus and wrong
method; and now that this great cOun-
try is coming into contact with the
outside world, is most distasteful, to its
people. The riotlng and consequent
blOodshed in that far away country, of
| which we sometimes read, is not as l
assume the result Of any boycott Of
American or European goods, but has
its inception in the arrogance and
stupidity, the unfairness and unwisdom
of the wllfully vicious Mixed Court.
In the treaty ports such as Shanghai
foreign residents have special privi-
leges, and the municipal council is one
of the anomalies which they enjoy un-
der such rule. In addition to this
Mixed Court there is also board of
Foreign Consuls, which the treaty
makes responsible for acts of the
Chinese themselves. When Chinese
criminal is brought to trial, the Chinese
magistrate is assisted" 10y the consuls
from Europe. Not satisfied with car
ing for their own people this municipal
council has at length taken full control
Of all court proceed 1gs, claiming that
i Chinese methods, even III dealing with
! their own subjects, could not be tOler-
ated-as they did not satisfy the ethi-
cal Western World. Hear me friends
what irony! These cOnsuls claim that
the Chinese magistrate is a corrupt
man, and his idea of Justice is unsuited
for this hour of the 'world swing" TO
add insult to injury-nOt satisfied with
: this disfranchisement, in the Mixed
> Court, of Chinese manhood, these mo-
guls from Europe caused new jails to
be built, and placed the Sikhs of India
within them as guards and jailOrs.
The reason advanced for the new jails
was that the Chinese buildings were
. unsanitary, but they deigned to state
Q their reason for placing the. imported
!. Indian soldiers III charge. The Chinese
4 most ardently dislike these Sikhs, and
: beseeched in vain to have some other
I selection made. They both hate and
s fear these soldiers from India, and are
: greatly incensed when Chinese women
are placed i'll their keeping.
,, The Chinese have shown both will
ingness and desire to adopt Oul
methods in reform and improved sani
L tation. The magistrates placed il
charge of their courts, were mel
who had received a collegiate education I
Il in England, Germany and France
- who cut out the prescribed barbara
D. punishments for criminals. Still to NJ
- satisfying avail, this lordly municipa
COuuCll UuCo Ill oDU AOuO "a CA
- great powers recede one jOt or It'll
= from their position of presumptuou
- pre-eminenee. i is this Municipa
- Council with tt Mixed Court accom-
70 70 paniment, and lot the flour from
% Minnesota, shoe from Massachusetts
10 or cotton and wo en fabrics from tn
2. looms of Europe, that is the real caus
~ of unrest in China. Combine wit
- this infamy the senseless acts of tac'
less missionaries and we may readil
=, understand why the "citadel fall
- about their heads" have spoken 9
~ ~ missionaries, and with we'll founde
W reason, too, for while the work is
- - noble and a deserving one, it cannt
- be denied that among the Thousand
who are sent to carry the gospel to a
~ unwilling people, are many who al
~ - unfit for the work. If from Amerit
-. 49, they go, they carry the "big stick" an
g, dare the fates to molest them, if fro
- - Europe, degree of haughtiness is di
.s played, known only to subjects of
~ king.
mo No, my friends, these people desi
les to be let alone, and to handle their ov
I'll affairs in their own way. We