Show I THE CHINESE DIABOLISM I The savagery of the Chinese mobs In slaughtering Christian missionaries and wounding those that were not i slain who fell Into the power of the I heathen is something horrifying to i every civilized soul It arouses the strongest feelings of resentment and I provokes unChristian expressions The remark Is frequently made that the United States with the European powers should move upon China and crush the nation that permits such barbarities We join in the feelings of horror and resentment against these outrages but not in the hasty expressions made I by a good many worthy but unreflecting unreflect-ing persons as to the situation and the course which is proper to pursue under un-der the circumstances In the first place it is not just to condemn con-demn the Chinese nation or the Chinese Chin-ese government for the wrongs done by a few individuals moved by fanaticism fa-naticism and inspired by malice born of ignorance No nation or government govern-ment or community on earth should I be thus judged and condemned In the next place can the American people proceed against the Chinese empire with clean and spotless hands Have there been no outrages upon the Chinese by white people within the domain of the United States Can this country afford to cast the first stone in an onslaught upon China by way of retaliation We are afraid not Now let no one intimate that The Herald has any apology or excuse for the cowardly and murderous conduct of the Chinese assassins There are no words that can fully express our detestafion of the barbarism of the heathen mobocrats We merely wish to draw attention to the facts that our country is not free from such inexcusable in-excusable assaults and that no nation must be branded for the acts of its individual criminals I |