In a leading article on Treaty Revision, in which the opening statement that "Treaty Revision is dead" is not the only assertion T should find myself unable to endorse, the Jupun Gazette tells its readers very plainly that the principal danger in connection with revision lies with the Middle Kingdom. It says:—'No nation on earth, to which the Chinese have easy access, can afford to be other than pusil-Tanimous of admitting them. Japan has good cause -to be thankful that she does not dare, for it means that humble as the condition of some of her labourers is, it is so far superior to the lot of many Celestials that if brought into competition with Chinese hordes they would starve, We be-Tieve that the effect would be felt throughout the whole of the commercial and industrial circles in Japan, To admit the Chinese, indeed, might soon mean ruin, whereas the retention of the Treaties in their present form ensures the maintenance of an effectual barrier to an evil which would he worse than the cholera and more destructive than the plagues of Egypt."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.