Yo the Editor of the "Noera-Cuisa Datty News."
Sir,—A party of youthful reformers in Hangchow begs to draw the attention of your paper's most benevolent readers to help us to accomplish a great work, which as far as we cance, is beneficial both to China and to all the Western nations. The question why we should conceive to perform such a grand idea is explained as follows During the Boxer rising of the foregoing year about 2,000,000 persons died. Their barbarous actions and anti-foreign principle did not merely transgress the world's common law, but also cast us (we mean the enlightened Chinese) down into 'a fathomless abyss of shame. Though such a pack of barbarous people should by Inw instantly be annihilated, yet in the eyes of your civilised nations there is pity felt for them, even at the time of destroying them.
The cause of Boxer rising we are sorry to say lies in their hopeless ignorance. They had never in their brains the impressions of loving others and of treating foreigners as they would treat their own countrymen. So when encouraged by the conservative courtiers they broke out with violent force. The lever for ignorance is without doubt education, and only by education the world could be brought into harmony. One little question would prove the effect of education—satisfuctorily. Has there ever been an educated man who feels glad at the Boxers' success? "No" one would involuntarily answer.
At present, in China, the so-called colleges and schools are very few, and even these are much detested by the con servative but powerful mandarins and gentries, so it is impossible to expect to get money from them to extend the number of some more enlightened schools. Wo have formed a plan which we hope sanguinely the powerful Westerners who take China's interest true at heart would help us with their utmost zeal. If we deduct one forty-fifth part of the indemnity, that is to to deduct 10,000,000 taels from 459,000,000 taels. This sum of 10,000,000 taels should be put in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at the rate of 5 per cent interest which yields an annual sum of 500,000 taels. With this sum we are able to feed the expenses of ten excellent colleges each in one province. In a course of five years the result from ten such colleges is fruitful. To bring the matter to a closer examination the money lay out for sttch purpose, the benefit from it would be proportionally greater than it would be from anything else. The two greatest results would be to enlighten the dark China and to invite respect from the Chinese. The New Testament says, "Tre: your enemy as if they were your friend for Jesus Christ, for He
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