Show TiE TUE iEA VIEW POINT Charles Thedor Theodore Murry Murray has inter interviewed Interviewed viewed an Intelligent and highly edu educated educated Chinaman at New York on the pres present nt in te the Celestal Celestial era em pire This intervIew gives an insight into the Chinee Chinese side of the Case se and explains te the hostility to the foreigners The ChInaman said We Ve ar are pretty fairly wel well informed here about what Is going on at home While our people ar are not geat great corres correspondents asa as a class clas we a art In close touch al all the the time through various channels The neWs news is spread through al all Chinatown ever every day We read your paper papers but we know how much to belee believe and what not to believe in beleve them Ever Every mai mail brings us direct news from home and this is spread b by p word of mouth an and bulletin China is al all same as United States You dont want the foreigner here her we dont want hint him ther there Foreigner comes just the same ame We have as much right to say ay you shant come to our country countr as you have to say we shant come here I We have mos mobs in ChIna China sam same a as YOU have them here The ignorant and pr pm people have risen against e We foreigner there the same as ignorant and prejudiced people here have rIsen against the foreigner her here We ki kill yOU ki kill Both make big big row But te the Boxer Boxers are an organized po and mitar military party So was your party I It was against the foreigner Is Its war cr cry was al all same ame a as the Boxers Americ America for for or Chinese And your persecuted and murdered people who be lee lieve as the they did Lot Lots of your people are as bad as the Boxer Boxers and would murder if they than the Boxer Boxers because we attend to our busi business business ness and dont han harm anybody We are not tring trying to destro destroy your our religion we are not grabbing land and running running new kinds of roads through your our graveyards arid and seizing al all sort sorts of concessions through corrupt govern governmental mental officials We are not trying to turn your our countr country upside down and make it hike our country country Go among my people here and see how they lve live They work hard and lve live poorly and mind their own business and hurt nobody Chinatown today is ismore I more orderly gives the police less lessI trouble than any other quarter of the city You know tat that There Ther are bed I Chinese as there are bad Americans and bad people in an any country But the trouble i nt u nese n ese The Chinese are a quiet and or derly d eny people who love to keep to them themselves selves elves s The only reason we are not wanted here h ere is because we work and live lve c cheap and you are afraid of us be because b bause cause ause c we work In my country we are afraid of YOU because you steal The f in my countr country Is a robber he robs us of our highways of our na t of our gods We are called heathen here we there consider you the he t heathen But we are an older ci civilization than al all the rest o othe oil the world The uThe missionary usually hurt anybody I put in inThe inThe The missionary is really at the bot torn tom of at al all the trouble between China and the foreigner foreigner You say he wounds at every step He hurt hurts more than gns guns and swords for he treads upon our sacred r religion up upon upon on the most cherished under which our people lived thrived and were happy and multiplied exceedingly beyond the rest of the world before your Jesus was ever heard of and while your Christans Christians were burning each each other alve alive and slay ing and torturing each other wherever ter theIr Bible Bibe wa wa known The missionary in our land is a pest He Is a proud conceited Insolent and overbearing man who treat treats us as if we ve were wild men and Ignorant out men superior to him himself himself self Look at your cold preacher preachers here among yourselves and you may may have some home idea of the char character character acter abroad of their fanatical representatives The Chinese faith is assailed and undermined and neighbor neighbors set against each other by al all sort sorts of doctrines no two agreeing wih with each other and by men and women who are always wrangling among themselves These mIssionaries come with smiles and velvet elvet feet and leave behind them theman an atmosphere of oC doubt and dissensions and a tri trail of human blood They have no business In China We never aked asked for them We merely wanted to be let alone Te wanted them to get out If the they get out it want because they plenty of warning I It wa was the same a as if we had sent a crowd of our priest priests here and buit built joss houses and coaxed and hIred your little children and women and men to dese desecrate rate your our churches and throw down your our gave grave stones and ai au that setting your people one against the other and al all against your govern government meat ment I said a trai trail of blood because be behInd behind hInd the missionary came the gabber grabber and robber from every countr country yours Included And they spread from the seaport seaports forced b by united navies al all allover over the country gabbing grabbing everything In sight even the power powers of govern meat ment under the pretext pretexts of civilization and trade Thus the people simple simpleminded simpleminded minded and p people not sly given en to warfare but to the calm pursuit pursuits of trade and intellectual development I a whole people geater greater than al all of the rest of the world gre grew restless then re resentful and finally assumed the de defensive defensive Thus the missionary sow sowing ing peace and human love among man mankind kind hind has sowed the seed of strife and has put a sword In ever every mans hand to slay his neighbor The robbers must combIne to rob robus u us but as soon as that is over they wi will fal fall to robbing each other You are evidently not In a cheerful frame of mind as to the situation I observed as he paused to mop up te the perspiration Would youe yoube if you were thousands ot of mies miles away from your our own country and knew that anarchy prevailed at home and that murde and wholesale butcher butchery prevailed in the street streets of your native city where lived your fam iy liv and frends friends But let me say one thing The Chi CM Chinese I nese people wi will never be subdued by any foreign power no nor by al all the foreign power powers put together The rob robbers robbers bers have long given us indications of what we might expect soon and we have rapidly become in a measure pre Dared for this united rid raid um are no longer helpless in our I forer former blind security army ot of men may be landed and marched into China may take Pekin but I wherever they are they wi will be prison prisoners ers the same as were the English and French who interfered in the former rebellion They wU vIll make no more im on the Chinese people than you make by sticking your finger Into I a nail DaU of water and drawing I it out agIn again The attempt to conquer China wi will solidify the naton nation and make more difficult the conversion of the empire to western Idea ideas The habit habits and customs and modes of thought that have pre I railed for countess countless ages ages lire are not to be changed in a day and there is where the foreign party in my country have made a mistake I It is te the common fault of the clas class anywhere and In al all times to thus precipitate changes The science of government among intellectuals i is a mere fad and does not take Into ful full account the Inert mases masses of mankind wih with whom to be success successful ful they must deal deal Even when their theories are correct ad and beneficial to these same element elements precipitation ruins all al Now there are undoubtedly many thinA things here which might be introduced In China to our b benefIt but this process must as I sy say be 3 a long Jong and unobtrusive I sive one one You cant unmake and make mak makover makeover over a again ln a population of people in a breath I It wi will require cen tunes r You only see see the exterior thing in inI I I his mind the Chinaman is sti still more difficult t tt move than In his manners He has a mind of his own The most 1 Impressionable people among you I American Americans ar are usually obstinate on one I Imagine then what my Imae to so are For everY convert ever called Christianity in China YOU ou must cle be prepared to give up thousands of dolar dollars and perhaps quie quite double the number of at human lve lives Your countr country may think the sacrifice wort worth mang mangI making I dont |