Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-09-03
CHINESE SAVAGES
WORSE Than I INDIANS
DIR, EDWARDS GRAPHICALLY
DEscRdBEsl HIS EXPERT
ENCE WITH A MOB.

4 DESCRIBES HIS ExPERI.
ENCE WITH A MOB.
Especial Correspondence Steele
Ozone.)
Canton, China, March 30.-I have
been mobbed. now fully realize
what the Chinese feel in California t
when they have been through
siege of torment! at the hands Of one
of our mobs, and II can also make al
lilowance for these people for what
they have done to me. It Is true
that the mobbing was not serious.
and that all the castigation got
was verbal. Just how close I came
Ito being stoned, do not know, but
Iperhaps the fact that myself and two
companions carried revolvers in our
hands while we we.e forcing our way
back to our boat had a restraining
influence on the rufians who crowd
ed around us.
!, II have been wanting to go tt one
Iof the interior villages for some
! time, but have been advised against
1T by the American consul, and also
4 by the Chinese officials who said they
J could not protect me. Just a few
4 weeks ago a party of missionaries
. was mobbed by this same village and
4 barely escaped with their lives. Per
haps the fact that they were mis-
eI sionaries had something to do with
3 the extreme treatment to which they
!. were subjected, for the Chinese have
Ella wholesome contempt and dislike
for missionaries.
f Despite the warnings of friends
i and officials we induced a Chinese
e boatmen to, row us to the village
and then we walked through, the mar
rhrow streets. We had not gone
j, block before the cry of .tfanquai" was
raised by a boy, and in an Incredibly
" short time we were in the midst o
IA a bowling mob. Our boatman DIR
J. out into the stream for he was
.el afraid that he. might come in fo
st share Of the trouble. We walked
T. up the street, the crowd becoming
a1 denser every minute. Great Drawn.
IL Chinese, looking like the most evi
" desperadoes, would walk up clos
A. to us, and thrnsting their faces un
,e der our. hats make wry faces at us
le showing their dislike in every imae
81. Unable manner.
We continued on our way until "
decided that discretion was the bel
b. ter part Of valor and turned to g
ia back. to the river. Then the howl
increased and we were jostled an
pushed by the, more venturesomeN 4
-s our assailants. We kept our temper
remarkably we'll, and gave no caus
for trouble, and finally almost fougf
our way back to the river. We wei
afraid that we would not find OF
boatman when we got there, ons ;
| Il soon as he saw the mob returnin
!. II he knew that we would need hi
in a hurry, and as we reached tt
Il Gllanding he was there and ready /.
us. We got in the boat and hurried
rowed from the shore, followed
shower of stones and the impr
! cations of the mob.
AS we rowed out toward the opp
site shore d lot of natives on tn
side, hearing the noises Of the mo
came down to the bank and begs
calling us names and making fac
at us. ! took out my sketching a
paratus and began making pictur
of them and this was more than tn
could stand for for they seemed
think 1t was some kind of meant
tion, and they hurried away, givil
us parting shower OF sticks al
stones.
There was absolutely no reas,
for this attack upon US, except t
general feeling OF dislike for foreig
ers. It is true that most of t
Chinese lii America come from IL
district In Canton, and this probat
accounts for much Of the dislike,
o. these people have relatives in t
United States who undoubtedly t
me them Of the abuses to which they 9
subjected from the mobs In the mi
ing camps Of California and from t
ere hoodlums on the streets of s
I've Francisco. I hear that this dislike
to- be met with in all parts OF t
OUT Chinese empire, and that IT is I
on confined TO Americans, but all +
eigners are treated in q similar nli
ner. These people are SO ignore
Of the rest Of the world. that u
do not understand the diiFeren'
between the nationalities OF the
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