To the Editor of the Sut,—That the Foreigner, tem, is not, as a rule, a persona grate with the Chinese, above the dead level of the masses who are indifferent, I think will not be disputed, and from the Chinese and triatic standpoint, when the whole subject is calmly and inopartially considered, not altogether without some show From a commercial point of Chinese thoroughly understand our presence, and our desire for pushing into the interior with our wares; and those facts standing out clearly in evidence, the governing classes and Literati cannot embitter the feelings of the people toward foreigners as long as they confine themselves to the acquisition of the dollar; but when the missionary appears on they look in vain for a raison motive of the missionuy is inexplicable and utterly outside the mental grasp of the ordinary Chinaman; consequently Chow and company find no difficulty in he ignorant masses to outrage—tiger in human nature delights to vel in the liberty it gets to sate itself h blood whenever the opportunity offers with the miximun of danger to its own cowardly skin.
Now, it is well known that missionaries are acting strictly in accordance with Treaty Rights in promulgating their creeds, but in the face of the equally well known antagonism to the foreigner generally, would it not be advisable that Treaty Powers should restrict their missionary nationals to Consular districts? And within those limits to let it be fully understood that the utmost would be exacted in the way of reparation for any outre 'The plea of the Government is that any appearance of being dictated to by n West-em Power would jeopardize the dynasty neither do they wish it to be thought that they are coerced by any 'Treaty opposing the wishes of the peopl quently' they are continually in danger, by reason of the missionary clement, of emi-broilment with a Treaty Power, or an innent of the people 5 ple, live no great lore for their wese, pure
The situation therefore action on the part of the Treaty Powers, if harmonious relations are to be maintained with Eh dan understanding arrived at, by which it should be enacted that no missionary shall be permitted to establish himself, or labour in the cause of his mission, outside the limits of a Consular district of some one of the Treaty Powers: any missionary in spite of the prohibition rendering himself liable to detention by the native authorities—to be handed over by them to the nearest Treaty Power Consul,
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