It is to be regretted that the interests of British residents here are not in more guergetie and resolute lands, for the Ministry in Tokio stands in need of a forcible and determined reminder that though foreign residents are confined to narrow strips at two or three places in the Empire, they have rights, and rights which will be asserted in cate of necessity arising, You may illyally and play with Eastern people to your heart's content, but as sure as night follows day there must come a day of reckoning, Sentiment is a splendid thing—in its place—Dut it is nota commodity that should be suffered to obtain the upper hand of justice and right. It is all very well to decry the Englishman for his blunt way of preferring his own inherited ideas of right and wrong, but the firmer his adherence to his own cherished views, the safer she likely to be in times of difficulty and peril. So soon as he commences to waver, 80 soon as he allows himself to be persuaded that being in an eastern realm different. standards may after all be right, just s0 soon does he place himself and the interests he is here to protect at a disadvantage, if not at the mercy of the astute Oriental.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.