To the Editor of the "Nonta-Carsa Dany News."
Dean Sin,—The last mail brought us the text of Lord Salisbury's speech at the bicentennial meeting of the Society for the of the Guspel in Foreign Parts, is truly surprising reading. That asbury sympathises with the object of the Society and with missionary effort is evident from his having been asked to attend the meeting and to speak. I was prepared to hear his opinion about the protection of missionaries from a Foreign Office point of view, but that he should attribute the cause of the present trouble in China to the missionary only shows how very little he had at that time studied the subject, and how very little information could have been at the ser Ofice, and of Her Majesty's It is to be hoped that the later development will have opened their eyes to the true state of affairs, That missions in China have not been the cause of the present crisis, I think, is easily established, From your own article on the Boxers, it appears that the Boxers have existed as a Secret Society of considerable strength since the reign of Kia Ching, who was Emperor of China at the end of last century. Missionaries and Boxers have therefore existed side by side for the best part of a century through sundry wars and rebellions, and the Buxers have never fore shown such a bitter hatred of missly aries as they now do of all foreigners. There has been so special propaganda and there has been no extraordinary friction which would in any way account for the present outrages. That missionaries should be the first to be attacked and their premixes and churches should be the first to he destroyed is only what was to be expected on account of their isolation and defenceless condition, but it is no evidence that they are offenders. rate war material having been collected together, the Boxers were encouraged to rise against the foreigners, and the Chinese soldiery assisted to the best of their ability. Tnstead of a small body of foreign troops being uble to force its way to Peking, it is now found necessary for each nation to send an army, and the meute which was thought to be caused by an unarmed mob, proves to bathe organised attack of a ros: ponsible Government.
There is a good deal of human nature in man" and if we transferred the scene to our own shores, every man, woman, and child in the Eupite would rise to resist the Foreigner. Imagine for one moment some of the Foreign nations leasing desirable ports in England, and fortifying them, or a Foreign Syndicate getting the whole of the mining rights in Wales or Scotland, we should first rise against our Government, and then fight the Foreigner. We might bear it if the whole country were conquered the House of Hanover deposed, and the Empire partitioned, but other wise we should fight to the bitter end, China isnot strong enough to fight the Foreigners, and must before long fall into their lands.
she had armed herself before the Japanese War, as she has done since, this humiliation might not have fallen on her, There is a very stern duty to be done by Foreigners, before peace is made again and then there can be no question of giving up leases or concessions once granted.
Tam, ete, A Burrisuxn, 30th July.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.