Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-10
OMAN, the Noted English Writer and Philosonber

whole OF these intelligent 400 900 900 OF China.
men were organized solely for industry and
peace possessing no armies in the least ca
pabe OF resisting aggression, did we resort
to the tTuculent brutality which so shame.
fully forced the sale OF opium upon the coun
try in the face OF the protests Of its govern.
Inent; a policy ftly Illustrated by the seizure
Of Iongkons and the sackIng Of the Winter
Palace
Our missonaries' claims for the Infinite su.
pericrty o. their Asiatic religion, which made
no impression upon The Chinese at al! In
proportion 10 their own efforts or to the risks
which this country had to run on their behalf
to protect them afforded further evidence OF
European arrogance. They did not disguise
their low opinion OF The Chinese cults. nor
did they like the Catholics, adapt themselves
In dress and daily life to the customs of the
people.
Even the late Lord Salisbury, a devotee OF
Christianity, complained OF their inconvenient
ardor and uncongenial methods OF proselytsm.
The wonder Is not that their conduct at times
influenced popular hatred against them. but
that they should have been allowed to con
ttnue In China at all.
In the same way, having discovered that
LII Hung Chang, the real author OF the ruinous
japanese war. was rs interruptions in diplomacy
IN ne was dishonest In finance. assume
mat all Mandarns OF similar character
Yet the great majority Of the llteratl who
govern China are beyond reproach in money
matters, and the integrity OF Chinese men OF
business and Compradors has long been the
admiration OF the East
All this time, too, tho Kidnapping OF China
men In the great cities was going on az
regular business. The horrors OF the bar
racoons OF Macao In which these coolies we're
stored before being shipped off for lifelong
toll and torture, were only equalled by the
late awaiting these unfortunates when they
were ianued as hopeless slaves on the Guapo
Islands, on the coast OF Peru. There they
mad no nope OF humane treatment nor OF any
external interference on their behalf Pro
tests by the Chinese Government were az
unaVniling In this matter In the case OF
the importation Of opium. The old cbattel
slaves at Laurinm or In Sicily, the modern
victims OF Russian tyranny in the mines OF
Eastern Siberia. never suffered from more
frightful cruelty than did these harmless Asi.
atics, forced TO work themselves to death
amid an atmosphere which 1t was q pain
even to breathe.
Yet the FIRST evidence OF the latent nower
OF Asas hundreds or millions of inhabi,ants
came from the industrial countrymcn OF those
sufferers in quite Il peaceful way I Waited
Australia Tor the hrst time nearly nf,y years
ago. At that time Little Bourke stree, waa
one OF the shows OF Melbourne. There law
Shinamen with their great broad hats and
rough Asntic pctucoat garb lying sand wichcd
on trays. to sleep head and tail Ike herrings
III 81 barrel. How they continued 10 cIis,
.ney were was mystery. But exist they did
moreover they contrived to make a good Iiy
ing out of washing 10. gold on d.ggjngs aban-
honcd by white mcn, out of laundry work
which they did better than anybody elsn
by growing vegetables III that dry and thirsty