The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-05
Our China War
By WILLIAM PIcKENs


Field Secretary, National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
WI called the Germans bad names when they threw
w few gdisance shells into the streets of Paris
even tho they were at with Paris. But the other
day British warships and their initiating American
innocent people of the Chinese city Of Marking And on
what pretext? Because, they say, single American
missionary had been murdered. If should grant
that white murdered in coolest blood by
marauding Chinese mob, that could furnish excuse
whatsoever for the brutal murder of 1000 Chinese by
American and English warshps. We have mobs in the
United States, and when they turn loose and murder
somebody does not shoot up their wives
and children to pay for it. The Germans at
with Paris; we not even at war with China and
shooting of their noncombatants as if they were dogs
act of savage revenge. We simply showing
might-and damn the right We had the big guns
We could get away with it. We did not fig how
hypocritical it makes appear when contrasted with
out cutlery against German atrocities" (Which
exsted) few years ago. We knew when
claiming against the Germans, that not better
than the worst of our enemies,-but we were simply
bawng because the Germans had thought of poison gas
before thought of it. If had only thought of it
first would have put it down to superior science
and brains.
Every honest man must confess that one of the mar
wells of the present situation is HOW FEW foreigners
have been killed injured in this civil in China
We wonder how earth the fighting Chinese can keep
from killing lot of dumb missionaries who insist
staying in the way,-doubtless the superiority of
their military backing, rather than the Lord If
these missionaries really Christian brothers to the
Chinese, they would get out for the time being instead
of standing around in the way and furnishing
cuse to their barbarous gun-boat commanders for
slaughterng Chinese people when single white
gets hit.
Altho the English and American naval commanders
jumped quickly to the pretext that American had
been killed and British soldier two hurwe suspect
that the real inspiration protect Standard OILS
"Socony Hill" at Marking and the vested interests of
the British. And at home dull INVITED that
these fellows will get away with it: will go be-
leving that navy is sacred mission of the
essary protection of life If they wanted to protect e
they would be taking the whites out of China TO Manila
elsewhere to stay until the Chinese is
That would be simpler and easier and cheaper, than
standing by in the way and making eternal enemies out
of the Chinese by saughtering their babies the
slightest of injury to any European. As it is
instead of protecting life there westerners
about the biggest menace to life that Marking the
rest of China has Even the Europeans in the
city in actual danger from the bombardment
than they had ever been in from the Chinese.
Very militarists and capitalists and newspa-
pers will have all frothing at the mouth hating Chi
and pratng about "Chinese atrocities, if the
world knew any greater atrocty than this whole
sale and indscrimnate murder by British and American
vessels.