To the Editor of the Sin.—I rey rot that the bearing paper "Can Safety in China be Assured should have been so far misunderstood a would appear from one of the leaders of your yesterday's issue. I subscribe heartily to the sentiments of that leader, but submit that there is no real antagonism between them and the sentiments of my paper. The proposition that we must depart from our moral plane in order to minister elective punishment to the Chinese nation does not exclude the proposition that we may, without departing from our moral line, ourselves punish individuals, if we can catch them, according to our standard of punishments, or insist upon their punishment by the Chinese Government according, to the Chinese standards.
Tt is earnestly to be hoped that punishment of some sort will be meted out to guilty individuals, but will it be effective as against the people generally? I think not.
Furthermore, I do not imagine the Powers are going to undertake the ferret ing cwt and punishing of the numberless individuals who have had a hand in the recent outrages, and is not past experience enough tu teach that punishment left tu
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