Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-08-07
TRIP TO THE Orient
Clarence e. Edwords Touring the
Eastern Countries.
HE is OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
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Canton, China, March 10-Thret
causes combine to make the Chi.
nese hate the foreigner, audit must
be confessed from that either gives
sufficient ground for an ignorant
people to have bitter entity against
those who forced themselves upon
them. The most potent factor in
bringing about this antipathy is
the fact that the Caucasian has
wrested may things from the Chi
nese which they have held in ven
GRAFTON. China has always been
compelled to pay heavy indemities
for transgressions against citizens
of other nationalities, and the con-
slant evidence Of this aggression on
part of the whites makes the yellow
people antagonistic.
/ A close second to this reason is
the action of the missionaries who
come here to take away from the
people their old religion, an older
religion by thounsands of years
than the new one being foisted up
eA them. What puzzles these semi
savage people are the numerous di-
visions among the Christians. They
cannot understand how it comes
that if the whites all worship the
same god they are constantly fight
ing each other over their creeds.
The Catholics with their vestments
and ceremonials, they can better
understand, for the Catholics priests
in their administrations are very
similar to the Buddhist priest but
the Protestants, with their differ
ent churches and methods of doing
things, is puzzle.
The third reason Cor their dislike
is the fact that all Chinese who
have returned from foreign coun-
tries, and this is especially true of
those who come back from Cali
fornia, tell how the Chinese are
mal-treated by the people wherever
they 60. Canton province supplies
most of the Chinese who go to Cal
ifornia, and thousands have return
ed from San Francisco with tales
of abuse inflicted upon them. 1t
is no wonder, then, that those here
look upon the American, especially,
and all whites in general, as race
of barbarians upon whom they
ought to take revenge for insult
and abuse which their friends and
relatives have been visited with.
In the larger Chinese cities there
is little of the open hostility which
includes abuse, but one can always
feel that he is subjected to looks
of anger and hatred wherever ne
goes, When he gets out into the
country, and especially in the in
terror cities and towns, not even
the power of the government can
protect him from insult, if from
nothing worse. Just recently there
has come q report from a town
about an hundred miles up tn
river, of the mobbing of party of
white people who landed from a
boat to visit the place. The peo-
pie congregated in great numbers,
stoned the whites and badly dam
aged the boat before they could get
out of reach of the missiles.
had occasion while in Shanghai
to feel this resentment and antag-
onism, and with one exception |
did not find a single Chinese, no
matter what his station in life,
who treated me with anything Dor
bering on the universal courtesy ac-
corded me while in Japan. | was
especially impressed with the at
titude of prominent Chinese Off
cial whose house | visited. He
had invited me to visit him and
take dinner with him. When |
got there I was compelled to wait
in a filthy room on the lower floor
for nearly half an hour before any,
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