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the pacific commercial advertiser: Honolulu, may isoi. 11 0. BAINBRIDGE M A. GRAND REDUCTION SALE OfraOur Entire Stock. 'ROUBLES Ctntanation is LApiu. hi ill ri w a a m. J w rib?' " -7 the Sun. ,vnDk' PAPER'S KEEN ANALYSIS 1 ni anH His Confisca- 1 rtinii" Board Exposed Them- s to Serious Rebuke. (From the Sun.) . I fr.l.-n letter or appruvcn us aivu. judson Smith, secretary' .Mtor of the Sun-Sir: I have i.k. neatest interest, wc ai.i-.c ,-5, or wst - , , jjjpage, entitled .ui.-sionanes i.ihirh bv vour courtesy our nr. Amenr, nas ima mo ....in'ain himseii in iuu He aders. I beg to assure jou satisfaction witn wnicn 1 ieiates in these Rooms note V.ifhincr rrlll H .clflT 0" euuii'.cvc c..i?.. ... 111 5 criticisms wnicn nave ir many weeks than this comprehensive and satis- t vr nr Ament. in Kiv- .r and the public at saiement you have won de- o your paper, and nave service to the cause of :ert1tw shows Dr. Ament what I have known him 4se twenty years and more, sound-hearted, coura- arrl missinnflrv. X i yours, I 'JUDSON SMITH, I jJUUi VI v uuiiisi' o ( TJ... ...... I, 97" auious, Duaiun, -iittii.11 r - .,: '" " '- ' V . . 1 ...... s 4SBm fit BSSSst On Friday evening next Mr. Bain- Auckland Herald says of Rafalewski s bridge will appear under the auspices recital, in which Mrs. Bainbridge as of the Young Men's Christian Assocla- siste.dL "The difficult accompaniments tion in his varied and bright recital, admirably played by Miss Jessie Teas m which he will play a number of. , dale (Mrs. Rainhriiitrp Dr k'nnski ; parts. He will describe in an eloquent , first musician to the Emperor of Ger- and humorous manner the manv won- iE" , . , . , - j the most difficult studies in the world), derful experiences and escapes that Dr. Vincent and others. The other day have befallen him in the numerous for- j she received an autograph copy from eign countries that he has so success- i her old teacher, Webbe, of his wonder- ,,,,,,,, ! v, . ., . . ' ful work on music, dedicated to the fullly passed through. The Hobart Duchess of York. Mr. Bainbridge Mercury says: ' Our distinguished visl- 1 leaves here shortly, and after appear tor's lecture is not a dry discourse, but j ing in San Francisco will walk across a most enjoyable recital of adventure, ' America to New York, carrying his interspersed with sparkling humor and swag and camera, writing and lectur clever lightning sketches." Mr. Bain- j ing by the way. He expects to do bridge will give a number of his black- ' America in about eight months: then Commencing Saturday, April 27, 1901;- Silk Goods, Jewelry, Watches, Gents' Furnishing Goods, J apanese Curios, Underwear, Umbrellas, Etc., Etc., Etc, . This is a Bona Fide Reduction Sale ASADA & CO. No. 141 Hotel Street. board sketches and illustrated stories which are spoken of as exceedingly clever and highly amusing. During the he will cross to Ireland. Scotland, and hopes to be in London by June. 1902. It will be understood that Mr. Bain the Rev. Dr. Judson Smith's evening Mr. Bainbridge will recite j bridge has to maintain himself during some of his own compositions. Mrs. his tour bv his own exertions but re- , . , 3 ! 4. . . , x-, "vriu aswcavra J l 1 Will V. t 1 XTC . I . ; . ' 1 . ' I C11J U111T1 a L 1 Vll KJ 11 L 11' bUUi ma w sere Liic ciiuse ui .uusiu, jluiiuuu, win pitiy several aim- a large auaience snouia greet tnis tai- I. . i t ' olllt selection? Shp has hppn nRnr1n r- entofi ntw tc Tv-hnco ftnmhtriAA offnric is iidL t ii e llflC IUI. XII- I " - . . , ..vw. - imrn CllCn m infill T r-i Q c t crc ac U , moiro o Hnliirhf Ful . v - . t- i n y rPw-.b-titt; :; WBg interview wun LT. , .,7015,1,1 anrt Rafalpwski fthp rlpfrfst tar, ho hnrl nt Wall 'ir-hnls X- Cn anrt r wnieh we DUbllsned last ' all-round musirinn in rhp wnrlrti Trta V miner Vlon'c Chriutian iacmintinn zreai interest to au . 1 lae uersons ana me hi in oonv mnc raneous 1 that part of the world. est la question )svas an ab- take their protection at the beginning of the mission funds. This extra fine of the outbreak. ; thirty-three and one-third per cent is "All the survivors of our churches were . distinctly admitted by Dr. Ament: reduced to absolute poverty. They were j "In general the process has been as follows: To demand the rebuilding of rinnspv nr art linnivalonf in mnnpv tn dp- HlCe Ullr-10.ianeS in lll;na intrula tVinip rallfrinn 1 1 nnn on-v? nno Thic monrl ncv-mpnt fnp tnnl RnH PTflinc C'tt T- 111,, 111V11 A V , ..'11 . " 1 . 1 1 1 (111 , U ... . 1 . . 1 . . ,111.1., ,. . .... ... 1 ' - 1- . . v. ( ) - ... 11 - V'T 'inrpqfrainnVl linrtitp 1 . . ... ... f .... . j rt-uas witn xneir neignoors ana naa not , nuance in which crlti- m to the size of his ex 6 people of the Chinese native Christians had er outrages. Previously irMtl o r T",,-, -u - ul x UI6 UUW U Ice Chares of lefl1inr pWuu in blackmailing vi wru rusttgcu in Meeting damaxes claimed ' the Sun of December 24 P as demandine- and re. P local authorities, in ad- damaees alleged, a i0 thirteen Tim.io thr. (n . 1 , V O 111- W :s that the additional I W. Ament was scaled acess of the indemnity, toes the amount. The I transmission over th r,n tm.n 1 . . . a UJ An operator s ftn 13. This mistake n reKin? aispatches "Mbeen ascertained and f the American Board Aiiieneau raisbionary t ,.aat trllA f th prntpstan, Ph-iK. king and prominently in ' tiang been recently the sub-I TT,;nnaTV hv mnris nf his ner- Bitiflsm, to a Specific ex- Knria, inflll(irif.p and hv the assistance of tare pr-sently going to ; th loa, ofBoial who mieht be frisndlv to him could bring the neighbors of his persecuted people to see the errors of their ways, and persuade them to con tribute money for the rebuilding of the destroyed houses, and for the support of the survivors of the families, I think be is justified in so doing. It seems to ine he would be hardhearted to do other wise." We do not impute to the Rev. Dr. Ament any conscious lack of candor in this manner of describing his tour of systematic assessment and collection, at the. rate of 500 taels for each convert slain. If in the course of his month's hard work at assessment and collection in Wenah, Paoting-hslen, Pachow, Ping ting, Chochow, Diang-ksiang, Shuni, and the other towns of his district, he found everywhere charitable unconverted Chi nese villagers ready to subscribe volun tarily a total of many thousands of dol lars as a relief fund for destitute Chris tian converts, we can only say that there are parts of the world where Chris tian missionaries are more urgently needed than in that part of China. - How far coercion, direct or implied - .. it,, 1 how far terrorism and the fear of conse- his acts, and his gen- j quences entered into the process of binary duty under such I bringing the neighbors of the persecuted ite existed since the re- People "to see the errors of their ways" frank and comprehen- 1 and to hand over their taels to the Rev. Wined to agree with the 1-r- Ament, will be known only atfer his jjSmith thus far. Wheth- arrival in this country and a careful in and, like him a-- i vestigation of all the circumstances at- ' ' ' "a Ms. tending his tour of assessment and col- 1 .. A uiwm. t .i 1 41 it. v,t-,-k lOiea u - tc weri abroad for measures were resortea 10. ne sam a. ; lif-stu.n to he deter- I month ago in a letter to the Rev. Dr. 1 f analysis rather than 1 Judson Smith mat he had "made no use Snlfa 1.- . - -. - . ! or roreign soldiers ana Drougni no ex- ; ternal pressure to bear, relying in all cases upon the justice of our claims." But what does Dr. Ament mean when in his Peking interview describing the voluntary contributions of the unconvert ed villages he goes on to say: "Not to have taken some such meas ures would have indicated tQ the Boxer sympathizers an abnormal weakness and indifference to the sufferings of our na tive Christians that would have tended to Increase the latter's troubles by rais ing the courage of their enemies?" And what does he mean when he adds in the very next paragraph: "In all cases, so far as I know, the missionaries have yielded on the side of generosity and charity in the collection of this indemnity?" t . I 11 in iictl u 1 u uuuciamnu iuc uoj. into thirt If nlt for despised converts and the ",ue ln unconverted who are voluntarily paying Wrude nr 1 that indemnity on the strength n ct alliI1 ec- DMis -hen it ic the collector and not the donor that assumes credit for "yielding on the side of generosity and charity." And Dr. Ament has Just given 11 thi Hnrr.rlnllfin nf the, DeODle tO west Mice. cri(icisms which have ny weeks' resole ";e?e four rho ana perh.-ms nthor Pt necessarilv rin. vi nem. taction or f vtti uihoritiea of lndemnl- 01 life Or nrr.nort,, n converts during tha J"e indemnities being iv: rvt. 1 " K t - jn. 1 I M nam xreat" arrangements S" in a sum avow- t. "-'luonai nne Mi., j . some of the mi3- iae unconverted r. I trl 15 to sav ih bi.V c i'pr0- RhM. . r: ,fs lu at.sent r.a..the sale Of - we missions 2 ia any ta. . v ur otner ried off, or for animals stolen; in case the head of a family had been murdered, or one who was- the provider, the sum of 500 taels is demanded for the support of widows and orphans who have no other visible means of support." No comment is needed here. However, satisfactory to the Rev. Dr. Ament's con science was the motive of his demands upon the villages, the collection of the indemnity and the collection of the addi tional exaction for the mission funds was conceived and carried out in the spirit of lynch law; and in many if not most cases the penalty imposed by Rev. Dr. Ament must have fallen not upon the persons guilty of the original out rage, but upon those innocent of partici pation in it. As to the general attitude of the Rev. Dr. Ament toward the Chinese who have not accepted the gospel he went forth to preach, his statement is illuminating. There is -no word from beginning to end that is in sympathy with the spirit of brotherhood and mercy and forgiveness which is so large a part of the religion Christ taught to mankind. The reverend doctor is a missionary of the Church militant. He is s practical man. He be lieves In making examples of the wick ed. In questions of punishment for crimes committed against the native Christians, he seems at every point dis posed to demand an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. We quote his criti cism of the lenity of an expedition de spatched by General Wilson into the re gion east of Peking to rescue certain Christian families who were surrounded bV Boxers. General Wilson's orders were ; that no soldier should fire a gun unless pon. Of this expedition the Rev. Dr. Ament remarks with some show of exasperation : "The Chinese could not understand such leniency. A well-equipped body of 265 cavalrymen, under able officers, pass ed through a region filled with blood thirsty Boxers, whose hands were red with the blood of more than a hundred Christians, where thousands of dollars' worth of property had been destroyed and many chapels burned, and not one man was called to account for this ter rible lawlessness!" And a little further, on he contrasts the swift retribution that fell upon any com munity that fired upon the invading mili tary with the forbearance shown to vil lages where the missionaries and their flocks had suffered: "One gun fired at a troop of foreign soldiers would easily rosult in the de struction of a village or villages and the loss of many lives. That was considered justice or the necessities of warfare. But in a village whene scores of native Chris tians have perished by the hands of the Boxers, and missionaries have been driv en out and vilified, for the latter to de mand the punishment of a few notorious leaders is considered by some contrary to the professions they make." Is not this an extraordinary complaint? Does it not read as if it ctme from an Old Testament Christian? The fourth charge has been that of reputable ftp . Amnt cr other vul these " u.aaer itau "", we r.nvo II t L' K . I I iiijw cr- ernent t0 see how fosr char,,4'1 comPlete arSes catalogued IK. , " . -- HU 9 the Jl'".,tlf imposed on ? lr-an witho-.it ? T.sff.. . ""icn thir inn. cui on "-"17 rw . -"--viuni of r-m u 1...T. L not Or.lv nr..... -pe of Ti .V "ine tn .... .. ,fn tv.iuinc'als. nor i were call IP. ley we,-:' " , U tlarit to onder. whose generosity and sense of Justice he lootjne. The Rev. Dr. Ament says: - ...a ttt Vi 1 . t-i 'i r I . . . 1, ,u: 1. . mln vy ne appeaiea nui-ceamuuj tt..v... . explanation 01 aiiyiimiK wmi uuj he carried his subscription book "Experience in China proves that seem ing weakness in dealing with the Chi nese only Increases their spirit of dis trust and their desire to continue in crime. Excessive kindness they will at tribute to fear; the spirit of altruism is entirely alien to their natures." We fear that there is something yet to be cleared up concerning the methods and details of the systematic exaction of indemnity. Meanwhile, Dr. Ament's statement establishes the fact of that systematic collection of indemnity by a self-constituted Court of Equity or Claims Commission consisting of the missionaries themselves, responsible to no lawful authority and acting under no legal warrant. The Interference was not even in behalf of American citizens. It was between Chinese and Chinese. There is nothing in our treaties with China conferring upon the missionaries the functions they admit having exercised in this respect. Secondly on tn th Infliction on the vil lagers of an additional penalty, over and sionaries may have done in the line of looting, it is only right to say that a famine was predicted for the coming winter, that they had hundreds of people in their charge who were in immediate need of food, clothing and shelter and who looked to the missionaries for assist ance. It is but Justice to them to say that if in the ardor of their desire to provide for their people they did some things that attracted criticism they did it with the best of Intentions and honest desire to provide for t!ie people for whom they felt more or less responsible." Dr. Ament himself took possession of the palace from which a Mongol prince had fled at the approach of the relief ex pedition. The reverend cioctor does not deny that he appropriated and sold off the valuables belonging to the Mongol prince whose house he occupied but urges as an excuse that this same prince had been active in the persecution of the mission people, and in the destruction of their property: and he adds: "The question may be asked as to the right or propriety of the missionary sell nlace hA tonic a o mciHcnno a v. rt close of the siege missionaries In com- mon with all other foreigners in Peking j had to hasten and gather in what grain I they could from various sources for their t own and their people's consumption. As I they had no money with which to pur I chase clothing and other necessaries for j themselves and their people, it was sug I gested by the United States Minister, j Mr. Conger, that the missionaries sell j the stuff found on the premises they oc cupied. ... It would seem but the mildest form of punishment that the j clothing and curios found in his (the Mongol prince's) premises should be sold for the benefit of those who had survived his murderous attacks." And he goes on: "If there is anything wrong in mis I should be pleased to have our critics point it out. Furthermore, if a proper indemnity is paid by the Chinese Govern ment for the support during those few months of the people who had been ren dered homeless by the Boxers the sum of money received for the sale of his goods could be returned to this Mongol prince." Questioned as to the morality of this avowed looting, this taking possession of other people's houses and property on the plea that there was nowhere else for him to go, and no other way of support ing himself, the Rev. Dr. Ament advanc ed this general proposition : If there was any moral obliquity in looking toward those places as their rightful abodes, we fail to discern it and ask our critics to point out how we could have done differently In times of such special stress and necessity. While be lieving that right is always right and wrong is always wrong, yet there are many actions that are relatively so. While one year ago it would have been a moral wrong to walk into these prem ises and take our abode there, we con tend that we were fully justified in what we have done under the circumstances above described." In several other parts of his interview the Rev. Dr.Ament admits the fact of the looting of abandoned houses by mission aries, and the sale of the looted articles for the account of their unlawful pos sessors. The deeds he narrates can be justified on the military ground of "liv ing off the enemy's country." They can be justified again on the theory that per mits the despoiling of the Egyptians. Fi nally, they seem to come under the Rev. Dr. Ament's maxim that while "right is always right and wrong is always wrong, yet there are many actions tnat are rela tively so." But it is doubtful if these same deeds of plunder and conversion into cash, no matter on what ground ex cused, will stand the searching light of the language of one of the command ments conveyed to Moses on Sinai, and by the Rev. tr. Ament probably taught to his Chinese converts as one of their very earliest lessons in Christianity. Destroy the Cause, you Remove the Effect Newbro's Herpicide kills the dandruff germ which causes falling hair, and, finally, baldness. No other hair preparation kills the dandruff germ. Stop dan druff, there'll b no falling hair, no baldness. DlCKlKSOK, N. B., Nov. 8, "99. 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