Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-11-13

Canton, china.- Three capset 3cont
sine 10 make she chheA. haS the,
foreigner and imnsc be confessed
that either gives sufficient ground
for an ignorant people to have bitter
enmity against those who forced
themselves upon them. The most
potent factor In bringing about this
autipathy Is the fact that the eau
casian has wrested many things
from the Chinese which they have
held IN veneratio& China has al
ways been compelled to pay heavy
indemnities for the transgsesisons
against citizens Of other Mathematics,
and the constant evidence Of this
aggression on part Of The whites,
makes the yellownpeople antagonists.
A close second to this reason Is
the action OF the missionaries who
come here to take away from the
people their old religion, and older
religion by thousands Of years than
the new one being foisted upon them,
What puzzles these smisavage peo-
pie are the numerous divisions among
the Christians. They cannot under
stand how 1t comes that II the
whites all Worship the same god
they are constantly fighting each 9TH
er over their cneeds. The Catholics
with their vestments and ceremonial
they can better understand, for the
Catholic priests In their ministra,
lions are very similar to the Buddh
priest but the Professionals, with their
different churches and methods Of
doing things Is puzzle.
The third reason for their dislike I
the fact that all Chinese who have
this is-especdally true Of those who
come back from California, tell how
the Chinese are maltreated by the
returned from foreign countries, and
people whryr they go. Canton prov.
ince supplies most Of the Chinese who
go to California, and thousands have
returned from San Francisco with
tales Of abuse inflicted upon them.
II is no wonder, them. that those hert
look upon the American, especially,
and all whites in general, as a race:
Of barbarians uponwhom 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 in
cludes abuse, but one can always fee
that he Is subjected to looks Of angel
and hatred wherever he goes. When
he gets out into tn country, and es-
peoially IN the interior cities and
towns, not even the power of the gov.
eminent can protect him from insult,
Il from nothing worse. Just recently
there has come a report from a towv
about an hundred miles up the river,
OF the mobbing Of a party Of white
people who landed from boat to VII
1t the place. The people congregate,
IN great numbers, stoned the whites
and badly damaged the boat before
they could get out Of reach Of the
missiles.
had occasion while In Shanghai
to feel this resentment and antago.
nism. and with one exception 1 did
not find single Chinese no matt, /,
what his station m life, who treat.
ed me with anything bordering on t..
universal courtesy accorded me while
In Japan. / was especially impressed
with the attitude Of q prominent Chi
nese official whose house / visited.
He had invited me to visit him and
take dinner with him. When | got
there was compelled to wait in a
filthy room on the lower floor for
half am hour before anyone paid
the slightest attention to me, and
then, after my host came was
nearly mobbed by crowds of curious
people who came to look at me. Ny
host did absolutely nothing to pro-
tect me from these people, and at
times | was compelled to push away
from me or step on their bare toes
to keep them from crowding too
closely.
Inquiry developed the fact that this
is usual, and it is the experience of
every white man who travels in Chi
ma. The Chinese look upon him with
contempt and take no pains to con-
ceal it. The one salvation of the Ca
casian world, so far as danger from
Chinese invasion lies is in the fact
that the Chinese as a nation are not
of one consolidated race. They are
as distinct as are the nations of
Europe, and there are more differ
ent languages spoken throughout the
empire than there are in all of the
European countries. They can never