(13) The very fact of consenting to consider the points set forth in the administrative suggestions will bring both native and foreig into more friendly relations, and any action taken in the directions proposed will not aly lessen the chances of further misunder-andings, but will set free agencies thut are now under a ban and convert hostility and opposition into friendliness and ce-operat (ig) TI suggested on the admin trative side will do much to ensure the satisfactory working of both judicial and commer. cial proposals; on the ode hand there will be tess likelihood of interference with commercial interests, and on the other, greater certainty of compliance with all that is required judicially.
For these and other reasons, a common trial of the first sot of proposals is to be strongly recommended.
47.—On the foreign side the political world may object to surrender anything already obined from China—the Christian public may ate to trust their Christian nationals in pagan China unless surrounded by the full blaze of exterritoriality—and the mercanti classes will ask what security is there that China will keep her engagements, for: i 3 exch one of them merits ite Here we are met by objections not without
sideration, Let them be fully thought out and let allowance be made for the utmost value of all they suggest; but, that done, let what now exists and what is proposed for adoption be put side by side and judged of by the light of the following considerations (1) That the present situation is approved of by either party.
can only be obtained by mutual concessions, (2) 'That mutually advantageous alterations (3) 'That what is proposed is not necessarily more than a five years' experiment, subject to revision and approval, and, if needs be, to withdrawal. likely to yield results. that will be 4 (8) 'That such' proposals, if presumably
gains, commercially, judicially and a tively, ought to be allowed a fair trial.
(5) That the proposals, instead of stunting, nourish growth—instead of forcing into groover, clear the ground for enterprise—instead of perpetuating distinctions that alike temptuative and foreigner, class all individuals together and make interests identical and not antagonistic (6) Politically, is it not an error to keep alive the cause of administrative difficulty Saudicially, is it not a fact that although the Court may be pagan, it will have to proceed publicly and according to new lowe, while individuals concerned are so few that such special arrangements can never he the cause of national inconvenience; and does noteveryday experience show that China treats the subjects of other States, not removed from Chinese jurisdiction, with extraordinary gen-Hleness? "And as for distrust of China's fille ingness to act up tu her engagements, if good
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