Show CHINA MAY HAVE A CASE There Is some disposition among intelligent in-telligent people to admit that the Chinese Chi-nese have a case against the foreigners foreign-ers They are heathen yet even they have a side A missionary Rev E B Alken of the American board has lately late-ly said that the aggressions and insolence In-solence oC foreigners in China have been sufficient to develop the present feeling of bitter hostility Mr Alkcn after twenty years of service In the China field sanely concludes that If missions had confined themselves to missions and diplomats had treated China decently and fairly the Boxer movement would not have arisen The Chinese have been humiliated by foreign powers In the last sixty years more often than any other proud people in modern times England forced l the opium trade upon them and has off and on bullied them like a trooper France and Germany have acted even worse and the powers together in seizing parts of the countrys seacoast have done things under the veiled threat of force which would have driven any other sclfrespoctrne nation instantly to war As for our precious selves the only benevolent philanthropic unselfish un-selfish Americans we have demanded access to China while excluding the Chinese from our own land and have massacred Inoffensive and helpless pigtails by the score although now the thought of an American being assaulted as-saulted In China sends the hot blood to GUI Christian tcmplesiSprlngfleld Republican Re-publican |