man with a grievance" has for the fit' time within recollection ventured into print to point outend show up to the world the faults and shortcomings of the I. G. of Customs.
Tt seems to me perfectly incredible that any one with proper feeling, should select the present time to find fault w nal arrangements of the Customs ud to try and disparage the Chi sector-Ceneral of Customs, quite regard-lest of the general reputation the fatter holds for fairness and liber: Is the members of the Se The w and not without, for no outsider could pos sibly he acquainted with the circumstances alluded to in it, and "the man with a grievance" lis thrown to the winds those ice traditions of loyalty and esprit de corps which have been the most admired and cherished assets of the Customs Servi The Customs Service und Mart's fostering care proficiency which it Its not been the lot of amy other Chinese Government undertak to arrive at, and it is now the only solid of the Chinese Government, It says for the I. Ges life work, and the perfection of the machine in which his whole existence is wrapt up, that when it was temporarily deprived of the master hand it still witha hitch carried on the work of duty collection, the north of China was in chaos, to the splendid organise tion of the 1. G. the machine worked anaes no to speak, thus reflecting the jest possible credit upon Sir Robert rt, Who has bit by bit built up. the Customs Service and regards it as. his life's creation.
What good end the socks to obtain by. being untrue to hi he himself can" best explain, but seem to be distinctly and 2 severe blow to that prestige whic was at one time the most charming tribe igh estimation in which the was held by his entire staff, display trict sense of duty and loyalty to the as chief of the Customs Vitiis nema sine nascitur."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.