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revolted .„v stomach not
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BY AM BROSE B IER C E.
ag ain st any fu tu re p o rk -e a tin g d u rin g busiue«<’ Th . / . * l° * accurse ¡rights and before the law, so each
my stay in China,” said the officer. ” 1 and » h i t . i
“ Ve ,ra d e " ‘,s Pu r e | natio“ and people is equal in its
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‘fben, \ hp r i g h t , o a n d ,o
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The real au th o rs of this blackest « .u h ,n „ ,h ri..g ,„y8elf„J
.
some chance for life, undisturbed so th a t it m ay evolve
page in m odern history (th e Chi- of th e ingredients of w hich, p erh ap s, '
izalton, and even the u ltim ate in the n atu ra l and most benelicial
ne3e insurrections) are the mission- was fu rn ish ed by the careas of a C h in a-
“ blessing of C h ristia n ity .”
Now way.
“
arie«. I t is to be hoped they are m an, who probably was one of th e line-
the C hristian carries the black Hag!
proud of th eir work. W hether they a! d escen d en ts of th e royal C onfucius.
It is our d u ty and adv an tag e to
His mission is one o f pure, silent
are or not, it is the last work they - I was inform ed by a M r. ---
L ord,
a • repre-
— y —
v — death ir. order to populate his Hell ! show them peacefully the benefits
are likely to do in China for a good sen tativ e of an E nglish firm w ith h e a d
of Science and civilization as we
for the glory of his God.
long time.
In all Christendom q u a rte rs at Tien T sin, th a t he saw the'
did in the case of Ja p a n , through
And whom are they m urdering?
there is not a governm ent th at will bodies of th o u san d s and th o u san d s of
Comodore Perry.
And just as we
Sim ply children , as we have said
dare to encourage these infatuated dead C hinam en th ro w n into th e riv er,
keep the Chinese from populating
above; for such they are, and only
men and womei) to resum e th eir T his will show to some e x te n t th e
and interfering w ith the welfare
are, under the laws of evolution,
horrible work.
They would need sla u g h te r effected by t he a llie s.”
and growth of our eouutry, go we
history, civilization, in tern atio n al
encouragem ent, and a lot of it.
t i . q »
,
should respect theirs; and if our
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> hat there m ight be no m istake and A merican law , com m on h u
to persuade them again into the about war as the result of C hris
m issionaries and traders will force
m anity and m orality.
field to g ath er the harvest of Asiatic tian ity , let us read M att. 10, 34.
them selves there and in ways not
C ur C hristian
statesm en are
souls. We hear a good deal about “ Think not that
w anted, and so are forced to leave,
have come to treating those fetichistic Chinese
as we force Chinese to leave us, no
their “ heroism ” and “ devotion,” »end peace on earth
I corne not peoples and their p atriarch al gov-
hut all th a t is now a bricked bubble. to send peace, but
w ar should follow.
The privilege
a sword,” etc., einm ents, just as though they were
They have no such qualities. Ap to verse 39.
of travel in each o th er’s country,
a consolidated E uropean nation and of trad e fair to both, should be’
p arently the crown of m artyrdom
The verse “ peace on earth and 1 h e masses of the Chinese do not
is a head gear which they are no good will to m an,” is a text corrup
secured by treaty if posssble, but
understand what is being done with
wise desirous to wear. None than tion. It should read, “ peace on
not by force or war.
The con
them nor w hat for, any more than
fidence of these subsidiary child-
they are more clam orous for pro earth to men of good w ill” —th at
the inm ates of a “ K in d erg arten ”
tection when menaced: none as is, to those who believe as we do.
peoples, and the ab ility to benefit
would under sim ilar circum stances
they so loudly invoke the m ilitary “ He th a t helieveth not shall be
them, must be obtained, as in the
By American and all hum an lawg,
arm . Time was when they who dam ned:” Mark xvi. 16, T hat
case of children, by kindness, pro
all of the peoples in the earlier
tection and helpfulness.
Force,
went abroad to preach the benight dam nation is the heart, soul and
stages of evolution are the “ w ards”
injustice, in term ed lin g , missioniz-
ed accepted m artyrdom with avid essence of all Personal God relig
of those who have evolved fu rth e r
ing and w ar will only teach them
ity. T heir reliance was in God; he ions,and it simply results in the
on, and who pretend to he civilized.
the sam e, and m ake bloody b ar
was th eir refuge; if he failed them general m urder of non-believers, foi
The present extent and value of barians of them .
they said: “ Thy will be done,” and the more wholesale the m urder is,
our civilization will be tested by
died in harness, praising him. the better. The sword of the Ro
The forcing of C hristian ity upon
the way this “ w ardship” is exer
But these m odern m issionaries put man was succeeded by the sword
cised. Our Suprem e C ourt declar these fetichistic ancestor worship
th eir faith in legations and gun of C hrist end of Islam , l'heism ,
ed, on the grounds above intim ated, ers, is a most cruel im pertinance
boats. They have, in this instance, and especially M onotheism , has
tiiat ih e In d ian s were the wards of on our part, and death to them .
lean t upon a broken reed, and for m ade hum an history a sea of blood.
the U nited S tates, but we have C h ristian ity has no sense of coni-
weeks the poorspirited creatures At bottom it is a license if not a com
m ade a poor fiat in exercising our p arativ e religion, sociology, or of
have been scam pering to the s e a mand to m urder.
So has it ever w ardship over them , because we he in tern atio n al future of the
coast like frightened rats, and been since Ù ahweh com m anded
hum an race. S ecular statesm en
allowed the C hristians and settlers
pickling th eir shins in the brine to the Hebrews to rob and m urder the
to boss the job, and they soon d is should become the m anagers of
hail the passing ships. They have C ananites, down to this day, when
covered th a t “ the only good In d ian earth ly and hum an affairs, and
had more than enough of the m is W illiam , “ by the grace of his G od,”
was a dead one,” and acted accord m anage them “ for the benefit of all
concerned.”
sionary business—a veritable bel —com m ands his G erm ans to see ingly.
lyful of it.
Pitiful to relate, their th a t “ no prisoners are tak en ,” no
But the m ain tiling for all to do
But, we are asked, m ust not the
poor “converts,” mostly women q u arte r given, in the C hristian
Chinese peoples be held responsi is to realize th a t the Chjnese are
and children, have been slain by m urder war against the Chinese.
ble for w hat is done am ong them , childish peoples, not a consolidated
the thousands.
Doubtless these 1 he C hristian Bishop, C ranston, -is just as G erm any, B ritain, F rance or people, and th a t they are not „
a
holy men are capable of rejoicing in seconded by C hristians and Im the United S tates would he?
Is nation, nor em pire in our sense of
the thought th a t they converted perialists everyw here, to the effect not “e q u a lity -e q u ity ” am ong n a the word; and th a t they have no
the wretched victim s .just in the th at life is of no great account in tions, ju st as it is am ong suitors in m odern motives nor ideas, nor
nick of t itne to save their souls; the “ C hristianization” of C hina.
our courts of equity, or am ong our language to express them as we
hut doubtless, too, they will be a
The heart of every Liberal and states and civilized nations?
The have. They are, in the h isto ry of
deal older than they uow are before of every H um an ought to rise in law of evolution and w ardship our race, what the Protozoa are in
they care to u n d ertake the sa lv a revolt and protest against the answ ers decidedly, No!
E quality early anim al life; a lot of m onosyl-
tion of any more.
whole of this bloody business, and is equity am ong equals, hut am ong abic, coalescing fam ily colonies.
the C hristianity and greed which unequals it is exactly the reverse. Like early Protozoa in Biology, they
K i l l i n g C h in e s e is
M u r d e r in g is at the bottom and the cause of To act tow ards or to trea t a child remain socially the most num erous
the whole of it. Missionaries, and as an a d u lt is to abuse, to rtu re and and the oldest peoples, but still o n
C h ild r e n .
then traders, force their way kill him . i’o tre a t a people in the ly in the first and sim ple childish
am ong a child-like people, to o u t earlier or childish stages of evolu stage. The true picture and m eas
BY T. B. W A K EM A N .
rage their most sacred beliefs, to tion as though it was a grown up ure of them is their language of one
beat them out of their property and m em ber of the great in tern atio n al syllable only, which after th o u s
The P o rtlan d E vening Telegram ,
lands, to force opinions and goods hum an fam ily, is to com m it the ands of years is ju st beginning to
of Sept. 24th has the following sam
upon them which are destructive. SBme blunder, in aooiologë law form into words.
ple of war resu ltin g from C hris
Then when these children lesent,
,
So it is with th eir ancestry w or
tia n ity :
i
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t
.
ano
morals; only y on a trem endous-
resist, and try to shake off this in-
noons ship, and all of th e ir im itativ e
“ i t w ould f>e bar«! to e stim a te the n u m
I y larger scale, and with con se-
ideas—all
“childlike
ber of C hinese killed by th e allied forces, terference, the C hristian civilized
.
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vuiiuHKe
h u t judg in g from w hat he saw and the nations go over and m urder them quences, not intended perhaps, yet and bland.” And they should be
sta te m e n ts of o th e r respo nsible p arties, by the thousands, if not m illions, none the less terrible.
treated like the grown up children
th e officer th in k s th a t th e n u m b e r m ust in a war which would disgrace a
The great du ty and law of w ard- th eX are, and g ^ a t and good things
he en o rm o u s. M ounds of e a r th , u n d e r
savage, because no q u arter is given ship is to look out for the ward and will come of them ; for they are in
which th e C hinese were b u ried , covered
ta k e n !” his estate.
th e e a rth at in te rv als of every few feet —“ no prisoners to he
U nder in tern atio n al m any ways the most industrio u s
patient and best childreu th a t H u
tor m ile s am i m iles on th e wav to Tien
Then we at home sing “ tk DEE M.” law, tbia obligation and rule an-
T sin. Corpses w hich lay on th e ground and g io rir, and „
the h u t,h - piles to th e „„deveioped trib e , and , Z X
J ^ Z ^ n
"h bi"' °h''ld?Q tbat Ho"
were devoured by num erous pigs and
logs, and th e sten ch was terrib le .
I peoples.
Just
as the citizens of keeping,”