donations are acknoaledgconcern of ours, and this also appex foreign China feels that, it is he the legation view although every
vitally interested in them. And why? Because, (1) these reform ideas are ours.
re the real culprits, and although not convenient for the powers that be to Say so they are peteely well aware of the fact. They "revile the East hut point to the West," ant our turn will come as soon as they dare. (2) The id as wholesome, and just what Eh Peking says the country is not yet ry for reform, while in truth it is ripe-rotten and will, rin dues not come quickly, fall to pieces from sheer corruption. (3) The progressivists are our friends, and in a country where friends are few we canna afford to pass them by on the other si who will not help friend in need wi none to help him when in need hi (4) Their enemies, the reactionaries, are our enemies and the cause of all our troubles. (3) The execution and po secution of the progressivists is ably unjus>. The story of th per Hsii and his Reformers is one of the most ul of the century, I: is wrong to condone injustice, more especially wh (8) a protest. from us at the tine of the coup dent would probably have changed the whole course of events. Tt might have been the means of keeping the Emperor on his throne, and the destinies of the country in the hands of those who loved her most, while position would have been vastly different from what it is now. (7) The sansis of foreign and native that the present retrograde movement is hound to result in a great conflagration, from which we shall all alike sutler.
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