the Editor of the ""Norra-Camsa Darty News."
Sta,—The dying shrieks of ten thousand Chinese and foreign victims to barbarous treachery and savage hate are still ringing in our ears, and yo: the old spirit of compromise, which has ruled all Western intorcourse with China in the past, is insidiously stealing into our newspapers, our diplomacy, our overtures for peace, again.
we never learn the lesson which the history of our dealings with the Chinese Government during the last fifty yeara has been teaching us? Shall we never learn that it is the utmost folly—not to say useless cruelty—to slaughter thousands and tens of thousands of the common people of this land for barbarous deeds which they have been incited to commit by their rulers? Shall we never learn that to spare the guilty ones in high places isto invite a recurrence of.treachery and savagery whenever the rulers of this
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