The Chinese Vegetarians.
Dr On Lee, in an interview with a representative of a Sydney paper, said the Vegetarians were fearless and quiet, but desperate as a class. He did not; think the rising had any political significance, but was all on account of religion.
The Vegetarians, like priests, have great faith in their religion, live only for it, leave father and mother to go away by themselves on the hills, and live in seclusion like hermits. They do not care what you do with them, but do not like to see people turning away from their religion. They do not like foreigners, and the more Chinamen become Christians the more they hate missionaries and the more deter* mined they are to get rid of them.
They kill Chinamen who become Christians just the same as they do missionaries, and are always killing tham off quietly.
Government is not to blame, bafc tha Mandarins, who supported the Vegetarians because they did not like to see the people change their religion. The Vegetarian Society ia one Government dare not interfere with.
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Manawatu Herald, 13 August 1895, Page 2
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180The Chinese Vegetarians. Manawatu Herald, 13 August 1895, Page 2
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