20th May.
from lack of the bij maps ong azo recommended by Lor Salisbury, nobody seems to have noticed the intimate connection did the constant remonstrances of, between the fortieth parallel and the the 'Trading Ca. and the Consuls' present aims of the Russian Govern-become to the Chinese authorities ment. Boundaries in the New World that at last they established at the and in Austra'ia are laid down, as the wool-collecting stations special offices i Czar is said to have laid down the through which the 'Tibetan selers /course of the railroad between St. had to pass all their wool, paying a Petersburg and Moscow, by s: raighttax of fifteen per cent, ostensibly to edge and pend'. Such natural obs'ac'es protect them from the rapacity of as rivers, mountain-chains, and deserts the foreigners. This killed the trade. are ignored. A poral el here,-a meri Unless a well-paid and vigilant; dian there, and the new State is foreign official is stationed at each of " pegged out." But in the Old World, the thirteen hundred magistracies in boundaries were not so mechanically China, it will be impossible for the imposed. Like Topsy, they "growed," Customis or any similar board to pro- sorts of influences having come tect the native trader from extortion, into p'ay to make them what they s long as likin is allowed w exist! are. When therefore we speak of the y shape. If it were arranged fortieth para lei as being intimately the Customs should collect the connected with Russian projects, we do like at the treaty port on other not bind curse ves to keep too narrowly jiimports, as is is done with opium, an to that imaginary circe Russia her-exemption certificate being granted, set has already overs: e here {as long as likin exists in the inter ior jam there, and we shall indulge in the there would be officials to examine liberty of making shore incursions these exemption certificates as the either north or south us occasion may cargo passed their stations, and they; require. would necessarily get their pay by Every schoolboy of the Macau'ay extortion, The well-being of trade type—how few there are of thea in China depends on her exports knows that the greater part of Europe theing stimulated, and we know that to increase the exper-s of the country, it is imperative to abolish likin and all inland and transit dues of whatever nature, whatever supposed safeguards fies north of the fortieth parallel!, The south-eastern corner of Russia, just where the Caucasus pushes its advanced posts well out into the Caspian Sea, is Within a few miles of it, Hor the rest, without permission.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.