Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-30
DANGER IN
INTERFERENCE OF THE
MEDDLTNG MISSIONARY
AMERICAN WOMEN FEAR ORIENTALSI
Representatives of Both Sides of Hindoo ContrOver
.sy Wish the "Fixits" Would Stay at Home and
Right Wrongs of Their Own COuntrymen
nY MRs. s. A. MNRRIrT

| HH MRS. y. \. MERRITT
AHRs. S. A. MERRITT has written
| Wl the following reply to the letter
of Mrs. Margaret Langland of
Pasadena, published in last Sundays
Herald:
MY Dear Mrs Langland-t wish to
thank you for your reply to my paper
and to tell you that you have struck a
chord in my breast most sympathetic
with your own, and that our league
has chosen the eastern branch of child
liberation does not mean that we are
any the less alive to the horrors of
the child slave of our own country.
Early in the spring one of our league
members Will go east and while there
will visit many of these places and
we are promised articles from her pen
for our Los Angeles papers. This
seems the period of awakening for the
! liberating of the helpless child and if
the signs are true it looks as if the
women of our country were to force the
issue. How? This is the question for
us to solve.
"One of the causes of the cruel sit
uation is that Ehiploads of serfdom
from all over the old world have been
and are still being foisted upon us.
| There is money in it. to the big steam
ship companies and the best interests
VI lHelI country 10 nOC enter INTO Ine
matter. 1t is not their children who
shall suffer from their schemes and
they are not keepers for their broth
ers children.
This condition has been long time
coming, but is only now, so to speak,
that we are awake to the true situa-
tion. 1t is always easier to keep out
of bad situation than to get out, but
we must, somehow get this awful blot
off of A eripa nd rt,Ia
How? is settled the army of good men
and women who will come forward to
work will not be weak hearted.
Now let us turn to India. This
eastern religion has it's temples here
and there over our land, as dangerous
as the cobra, which they worship, and
as sly and mysterious 1t looks all
right on the surface, in fact their
priests say it is the same religion as
our won, that it is by the light of
their own god that they are able to
bring us to comprehend our Christ
Graceful figures of speech from the
platform are entertaining to the outer
ear, but sometimes dull the careful
thinker. Wait till the Hindoos quietly
insinuate their customs among us, the
faithful followers who should know
will have become so drugged by the vi
brations brought over from sodden In
dia that alarm cannot touch them. 1t
will look quite right to them, but by
and by when the head of the cobra
comes to the surface the people of
this country will think the Chinese
hell found in underground San Fran
cisco after the great earthquake a
heaven by comparison.
Let me tell you, sister. that in the
mind of the Oriental, woman is a dam
gerous element anywhere and must be
kept under lock and key, but this
western woman who has kept pace
with her brother and is honored for
1t must in some way be weakened and
she being religious creature, this
Will be found the line of least resist
ance. Again I would say I feel there
is every evidence that this is the OPEN
ing of the period for the liberation of
enslaved children. Wherever they are,
dark or fair, the bondage is dulling the
brain and burying the soul too deep
for resurrection. I repeat that it is
easier to keep out of trouble than to
get out, so we prefer to reach over
to India and puncture the great car
Duncle in its own center than to by and
by find the thing too big for us to
handle. The bees from the hive do
not all go in one direction. they fly
away to the point where they can get
the best results. All our troubles seem
TO nave come out of the old world and
W. At NS pCCA lOO near asleep TO see 1t;
now 1 think we want no more.
watch for the announcement of
our annual and come to us then and
you will no. find US wanting so far as
our strength goes in this line of
thought and let us remember that the
Master cannot work without instru-
ments.'
Il had read Elinor H. Stoy's paper
in December's Arena and my tears had
fallen for the little children, and I
thank you for quoting so much in the
newspaper, our medium for everybody.
Most sincerely,
MRS. S. A. MERRITT"