Saw Hue-kee v, Harvie and Thomas 1299 'A. Johusford and E. L. Allen v. M. R.
Howard and 3. Wilson 1300 Re Trusts of BO. Lot 337e. Sub-Register 92 1308 The U.S. Consilar Court—U. 8. People v Rio, Morano, Lopas and. condemned. Mr. Sharretts is mentioned as being in full agreement with this decision, and the writer states that the new British Treaty leaves in existence "the native machinery for effecting squeezes' on merchandise in transit, which could be made the means of a "revival of the most obnoxious features of likin taxation." This is what the British Treaty if carried out does not do.
It is satisfactory to learn, however, that—There is reason to believe that the Government of the United States is entirely favourable to the general principle of giving China a higher rate of import duty in exchange for the surrender of the revenue derived from the likin stations. But it is probably as fully impressed as are our Fiends in China with the dangers inherent in Article 8 of the British Treaty. The time, therefore, seems opportune to formulate some scheme which, while making {the required concessions in import duties, Will also provide the necessary safeguards Dr. Griffis, and a concise summary of the very interesting report by Professor Jenks on the experience of England and Holland in their Oriental dependencies, with reference to the U. S. government of the Philippines. It is worth quoting in fall:—
Mr. Jenks was constrained to observe that nowhere in the dependencies of England, Holland or France in the Orient has there been granted so great a measure of self-government. as the United States has already given to the Filipinos. He remarks, with characteristic caution, that when one considers that these nations are seriously working for the good of the natives and that they are doing what, on the whole, seems to them best, the inevit table conclusion is that the Government of neither England nor Holland considers the natives as yet capable of self-government. He adds that while the United States is commended for its earnestness in pushing forward measures for fitting the Filipinos for ultimate self-rule, the
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