| Show CHINESE RIOTS How tho Literati or the Celentlnl Kingdom Aio Trying to JJrivo Out the JorclgiieiH = = = = = Tory Gill Ui rtfCml OnUs and Urge Hf Jtoftt to Shufliltr the Million arsesThey sv > lit Stoop 01 lilt JiyIS s Dead CZInanen Sflal Their DaM and Slice If Tlnlr GlHi for tAt tl NeditlntTKs Units lit lure Calllty end ill li desful Otmltlim Otlltne Caroml and flint JIM Mtn lhn tin CtummuJtr if an fiflil Giinlfal ffivngM a lltiny III Tfsre IIfI ntnitrltot Frtm 1M Dnitt fichu Gallery sense twrrs < > 4ssssa are Huns CopyrifM tq rut u c > ni r IM KIUKIANO China May i 1894 IK tlie longhaired v long-haired barba 5 rime Look ftt di the kidnaper of bnbleil Tliere goes n r pit goat blue eyed devil I Iif ab xra p34 These are 1 s44iysomn of tlc fh s cxprellloDl iwhleh are c Iiaw hurled al me In Chinese In very city I viill A tali Chinaman In a blue illk ROW and big spectacles spat at mean I walked through the streets here tills morning and wherever I Hop a crowd collects and the remarks which my Interpreter translate for me ore by no meant elegant nor polite At Hankow 1 had great trouble In getting a man togo to-go about with me There was a well educated China mall who poke good English > but lie Mid If he went the people I would call hint n foreigner dot and he evidently did not want to be I seen on the street In my comwn > I confess I dont like It liven the babies yell nt the foreigners some of these towns The dog who will not molest a strange native rccognlie a foreigner by his smell and rush for him snapping at lilt heels I carry a good club and I think that this protects me to a certain extent from both dogs and men This Is one of the mOlt rebellious re-bellious parts of China and the Chinese here are far different Irom those > ou find In America They are big broad shouldered fellows with stronger features feat-ures than the men of South China whence our coolies come They speak a different language and are more Independent Inde-pendent In their actions The better classes all over the empire lute the foreigners and the millions which the Viceroy of l j Hankow 1 Is linhll lilt factories and rolling mills are spent = because he I bones nty them to make China entirely Independent of the rest of the world It was throughout this I Yangtse valley that the great riots of iSyl l began and they extended from here all I over the empire They resulted In the massacre ol hundreds upon hundreds of nath Christians and lor a time all sorts of foreigners eared for their lives At Wusueli one of the Kngllsli customs officers and a Methodist missionary were killed by the mob and foreign properly was burned and looted at a dozen different 1 stations along l the liver I Today an Intense dislike tar foreigners r rl r k I prevails among the literary and official classy of the empire limey look upon us as savages and boors I and they would II they dated sweep us from the country today It Is from them that the stories come as to the wickedness of the Europeans They I distribute books lull of all sorts of lies about the missionaries and the chief l cause of every riot comes from antis publications Just before the lleiitiln massacre a pamphlet was Issued chant ing the foreigners with stealing Chinese babies and cutting them up for medicine and the same studs were prlnud l and shipped over the empire by 1 the million during the riots of three years ago At this time there were published da colored prints under the title of the Devils Ilcturc 1 Gallery I These represented I In the vilest of scenes the alleged practices and Institutions of the religion of the foreigners I have second a set of those I prints and they He before me as I write I have also procured a trans lation ol the Chinese characters which surround them and which so explain tho pictures Hut the moil Ignorant 1 Chinaman can see just what they mean The word lor hog and Jesus are pronounced pro-nounced almost the same In Chinese mid the Christian religion Is called here 1I111 1If the I worship ol 11 the hog Among the pictures are cuts of hogs labeled Jesus hanging to crosses with Chinese men and women kneeling before them and other men and women going through t the most obscene and locutions per formances In the background One of M the hop so bini Is bled iu with i arrows which Chinese soldiers are shooting Into him and a mandarin Is directing the attack The foreigners are represented t In these I pictures t I eir y guild the words or characters repre eming the Iwo being practically the Mine and one of the cuts ls entitled Slaughter the rigs and the Goats borne cuts represent the laughter going on and others Incite oll people I II to rise against the hog I ten as the call us The pictures I stale that the Christian religion Is I a worship of lust and the pigs and goals are printed with I green heads which I ire Chinese typifies this Many ol the palming could not be described much less I Illustrated Illus-trated h In any I fI incemdiary newspaper and the whole I Is Incendiary III the ex treme Many of the common l eople believe l the stories They 1 look upon us as demons who are possessed of witchcraft witch-craft powers and backed as torn of < the 1 publications I are by extracts from f public government documents they receive re-ceive I full credit In the blue books of China for Instance In-stance jou find how the foreigners scoop I out the eyes of Chinamen lor medicine I or to ndT up to 1 make photo 11 tl graphic materials The Chinese have em which I are invariably black 1 hey think that their eyes bate different goal r ities from ours and that we are always seeking to get them In ono ol than prints which I have two bloodthirsty 1W loW sb tlliI I villains In foreign clothes ore culling out the eyes of a dead hlmnian while another foreigner 11 I floating over n saucer full ol ne which Iw ha I mast captured The blue book of China say Ihat the rmstlans shroud the dead a that they may hide tlili I scooping out of the eyes and from my translation of The Deathblow to Corrupt Doctrines I copy the following In case of funerals the religious teachers of blue Christian sect elect all the relatives and friends from the house and the corpse Is I pot Into the coffin with closed doors Doth eyes are secretly kI 11 lfiolelCr taken net and the 1 orifice seeled up with plaster They call this the scaling of the eyes for the western journey e e The reason lor extracting the eyes is i Urn From too pounds of Chinese lead can be extracted eight pounds of silver and the remaining ninetytwo pounds can be sold at the original cost Hut the only way to obtain tills silver Is by compounding the lead with the I eves of a Chinaman Tlie eyes of foreigners are ol no use for this purpose I Icnce they do not lake out those of their own po rile but only those of the Chines The writer here goes em to sneak of the use of Chinese eyes as photographic material and he straws that these eyes spread over the surface In a way to take magic pictures 1 which the Christians price I Further on In the work there Is an extract from the public records showIng show-Ing how a Chinese scholar cheated a missionary and saved his eyes I copy the extract verbatim In the reign of the Kmperor Uan Lie a foreigner named IaTa LI came Into Lheklang dC began to persuade men to j join I this Christian sect and great numbers were ensnared by him Now there was n certain military undergraduate under-graduate named 1Van Wenhu o an athlete who hearing t Fat when anyone any-one who Joined this sect died they secretly took out his eyes had a desire I to test the mailer So bar some days he ale nolhlng and word was sent to the priest that he was about to die sue priest came and sure enough he had I a little knife I j In his 1I3no Coming forward for-ward he was about to cut out Wangs eyes when ea springing up suddenly f beat him and drove him out ol his house and cut oil his head and destroyed his Image of Jesus When iHs affair came lo be known In the capital the emperor rewarded him liberally Speaking of the medical treatment of the foreigners these looks describe just how the foreigners make them I would say first however that the average Chinaman cf f the Interior knows nu distinction 1 between German French English or American I Merchant and missionary are all one to him and a great riot will kill the men In business as well as the preachers of the Gospel lliese books which have been clrcuU I ted by the million all over China state that time brains of Chinese babies are cry valuable to us and u put ol the recent riots at Wuhu were caused by two missionary nuns calling tome children Into one of their houses Their parents hid 1 an Infcetlous r disease and fIe fI nuns wanted 1 to protect the children f Irom It I A relative of one of the child ten tried to take them away but the ldl III children would not go and he roused the people telling J them the nuns were going to kill the I I nlhaOn3u use their eyes for medicine In a short lime a mob of 6000 Infuriated Chinese was I collected The nuns were arrested and the buildings the missionaries burned After the riot was over n placard in Chinese was put up by the rioters Incit ing the people to more bloodshed I vlulcd the town yesterday It is I a dirty Chinese city lying on the banks ol the angtse and U I now comparatively peaceful ulre1 mission buildings hive been rebuilt lime placard 1 spoke ol I Is I qulle long but a part of It reads AI follows The country Is betrayed and the people are ruined Human beings ore trampled down and reduced to dust lateydthe 1 W jDu Iately the Christians are building churches In every portion of this city Ivery convents paid I a monthly sum of ft audit Is by such means that Ignorant males and female are led to enter churches where men and women con agate together without discrimination Now women are procured from other places and are paid to abduct children 1 whose I eyes and intestines are taken out and whose hearts and kidneys lire cut uhf What crimes hate these lillle children done thai they should sillier lliese horrible deaths The proclama lion then goes on to state how the children I were being smuggled away and cites a number ol Fi instances of Chinese allies which have disappeared through ho I magic of the foreigners It stales that a year ago a woman by the name of Shrn had a oneyearold child ly I ing In a cradle when it was taken away Tn the twinkling of an eye cradle and all without leaving the slliehlesl trace It Peaks fevlllsh ol foreigners underground hide the cells babies whore and the closes rlic calling upon the people to rise and drive out the barbarian r thieves The riots of 1891 were general They extended t all user the empire and proclamations lIa li Klh leRI clamations Inciting the people to drive out the foreigners were everywhere put up Dates were fixed upon again and again for R massacre and the lunamtes I among butcher other the burials Christians I said foreign 1 they would and native and II lice I them into pieces and weighing divide them among limo people I for a cannibal feast these liunanlie are the best soldiers of the empire they come from an Immense province er t rr elr south of here and ate the most fierce ol all the Chinese They form boa largi extent the great secret society known al the Koloa llui and they have their organisation II everywhere They tiro rklllg especially strong at Nanking and front that point the working of the rioter F seemed to be directed There Is no doubt but that the educated classes 01 the Chine le incite these troubles They wy they come Irma the people and then annul control them but Ihfu I lrl evident l ly I false At Hankow the viceroy or governor ol the state who liver in UK big capital city I of Wuchang l I Joel across tin river nail he could a do nothing and thousands ol Chinese students who were there to attend the eximlnallon collected on the walls of tho city 10 witch thr people ma < sacr < thin foreign er At this lime liowev I r nn 1 nglmh commander eJ on tlm scene ghl U sent huuh commander sent his compliments the governor saying it was unfortunate that ho could not mtrol his cm I for at time first outbreak lie wuull l have to hell the city The mcucngr then went on as follows Thecommander would regret this very mum h as his gun are pointed Just In the line of your fIlY n nar ell excellencys palace I and they will probably pro-bably destroy It It was wonderful row quickly Woe hang became quiet Runners Run-ners were sent out by the hundreds front the palace that night to all parts of the town and one of the moil rebellious re-bellious cities became lie most respectful respect-ful awl quiet The tracts 1 against the Chriitlans I and the 1 books 1I1 pictures which I I have described are gotten up bv he scholars I of the empire One book io called Death to the Dex ils Kehglon and eight men alone subscribed to kjoouo of these and scattered them over he empire Boat f loads 1 I of these books were carried through the provinces near here and the pawnbrokers and booksellers book-sellers aided In getting them to the peon > le Doggerel songs against the Christ pans i are written I and taught to l eC child I ran In some of J the dries and you hear heir I cries ol derision hurled I at you every where you go These picture of which I hue al eddy written ralnt not only the Christ tans onw earth but they show their fate alter death In one all the horror of he Iluddhist hell are called to best upon up-on them A hog labeled Jesus U I being sawed In two by two devils and other devils are tormenting the foreigners One picture show how the foreign books should be burned and there has great fire with Chinese coolies bringing stacks ol column and throwing them In her the fire In the background are foreigners tied to crosses and Chinamen ormentlng them On the ground lie other foreigners held by Cnmamen while other celestials pour down their throats through funnels the vilest of Iti I fknl tleJhl = slops This I print Is labeled ev beating of the devils and the burning of the books and the Chinese characters on margins read The depraved religion rf1 I of the hog al Is propagated from foreign land Its followers Insult heaven and extirpate ancestors Ten thousand arrows andathousand swords will not expiate their crimes Their magical bOOks stink like dung Let them be burned nml el letbe poured down the throats of the devils I Another cartoon states that It Is I hateful hate-ful that the name of Jesus should descend de-scend to a thousand generations and It describes how the believers should be treated as above It states that all Chinese believers should lie forced to drink slops and to defile the picture of across a-cross placed before them Another shows how children are mutilated fur lie making of foreign medicines and a ihlrd contains a picture of a nude Chinese woman lied down In a chair while two villainouslooking Inglishmen are cutting slice out of her bur use In the manufacture of thelrdex Illsh potions Another show n woman so tied with her breasts cut oil and the Chinese script states Ihat the foreigners catch Chinese gills and cut oil their nipple and breasts There are In thirtytwo L these vile sheets They are each about twice etr site OIT a sheet of com merclal note and are printed In half a dozen different colors The work Is I fairly good from a Chinese standpoint though It would be considered very bad In any Kurvpean < country I cant describe the effect such things have on the low er classes of the Chinese They despise u a1o nation and they believe all such reports as these The missionaries work among them under the greatest of disadvantages and they really < do a vast deal of good No one however can appreciate the awful dumb cultles they have to contend with and the 1 lies which 1 they have to refute i at every step If It were not for the literati and scholars they could make more headway As It Is thud I their churches In every city I have visited and I have seen a number ol mission schools In I all of the points where the riots occurred occur-red they were for months In dangcrof their lives and the man who thinks that preaching the Gospel to the heathen m hlneelsa sinecure 1 Is cry much I mi taken q av IC I ile CMt tAalw |
