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Show THOSE MEXICAN CHINESE MURDERS. It seems almost comical to read that China it aending a cruiser to Mexico to enforce her demand for indemnity for the murder of her aubjects. Com-'eal, Com-'eal, we say, because it is so unusual for China to assert itaelf, and then how can the cruiser help her I It might bombard Acapulco, or Mazatlan, or San Blaa or Manzanillo, but that would not amount to very much, because there would not be much property prop-erty in either place to destroy, except the property of foreigners, and we doubt whether that would be permitted. But that they should have ample indemnity ia most clear, for the atrocity of killing those inof-feLsive inof-feLsive Chinese waa something awfuL The wild beast in the souls of those ragamuffin aoldiery waa all awakened, and for the hour, at least, they were tigers. That is one reason why we rejoice that the war aeeraa to be about over in Mexico, for had it progressed a few montha longer that blood thirsii-nesa thirsii-nesa would have broken out upon Americana aome time, and then there would have been real trouble. By the way, the "hero fund" of Mr. Carnegie ahould next time be devoted to that American woman wom-an who, when tha slaughter of the Chinese was going on, put her arm around tbe Chinese boy and : defied the murderers, and to that Mexican girl who, when her lather waa slain by the murderers, stood them off and saved the Chinese in her house. |