To the Editor of the Noxra-Cuina Dairy News.
Sm,—It is a long reach from Shanghai to Chi-nan Fu, and to carry on a discussion between parties located at these opposite poles of the new civilised world is about
hai Committees by means of telegraph, unsatisfactory a8 to deal with the Shang-However in the edition of the Herald of August 10th there are certain important matters referred to in one of your leaders and ina letter of the Rev. Win, Muir-(head, that I am tempted to offer a few comments.
Whenever I see any proposition offered or conviction expressed by good Mr. Miirhead, Iam inclined at once to give hearty and prompt assent. Notwithstanding this innate impulse of mine to render respect to whom respect is due, I find another law in my members, which may be called the protestant law,' and which, by inevitable heredity has come to me from Scotland, {England and America. If my protesting spirit appears too strong, please take into account this fact, and place the blame on imy distant ancestors.
Mr, Muirhead expresses a surprise on seeing a letter of mine in the Chinese Times in reference to the Famine Committee declining the repair of the banks of the Yellow River." If my letter created surprise in Mr. Muirhead, his reply produced pleasure in me, since thereby I am partly initiated into the animus of the Famine Committee, and not left merely to the short statement of the Committee'stelegram. It should, however, be stated that my letter in the Chinese' Times was more properly on "Famine Relief," and that the reference to the Famine Committee was only one of several facts on an important Piitciple, viz, "that famine funds should used in providing labour for the people."" Even now, as I take up again my pen, am induced to write because of the main question and not because of any rebuff of my proposal by the Famine Committee,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.