Show LORD SALIS BURYS MESSAGE LORD SALIS SALISBURY BURYS message to the chinese government is if you cannot protect our citizens on your own soil we shall have to come there and do it for you this has a very exalted sound of patriotism but down in the lower tones if one observes vei right shary sharyle ly will be detected a good deal of the straight guttural bravado which has made john bull suspicious among the nations from the tee beginning th T fact is no power on earth ea rth has been trying harder than china during the past century to be respectful to foreigners anu to throw about them ite ita protection that missionaries to china have been persecuted has not been through the will or neglect of the chinese government the territory of china is 18 packed about as thick as the nation will hold with a people the most super ious that the earth contains the arles who go there understand that fact perfectly and when they go there they do it at their own risk the government can protect them only within certain limits and no government on earth could do any better under the circumstances as england very well knows we have an example in this country indeed right in one of our ad adjoining loining states which is good material on this point A few years ago nearly a whole village of chinese residents were massacred near rock bock springs not through any impulse of superstition but because the mongolians Mongo lians were jn the habit of laboring for less wages aps than the white people of that neighbor hood were willing to accept for their services in the same occupation did the united states government turn in and hang the mob that did the dastard ly lydeen deed or could it have done ao without running a great risk of adding to the graves which the affair had already made twenty times as many more the government did the best it could under the circumstances it appropriated from the public money a sum for the benefit of the survivors the trouble with china and to is not half so much their ways as aa their weakness if china was as aa strong as great britain lord salisbury would not discover in the recent persecution of missionaries there any affront to hi government or any demand for armed interference to vindicate the honor of england while the chinese govern ment is ia doing its best beat to protect the foreigners who go there it is ia doing its full duty in the premises |