To the Editor of the West must now be envious.
The large agricultural population of Ohina has never evinced the least desire to interfere in the politics of the country and although they are generally the sufferers they has|seldom assist in revolutionary risings. The mercantile class (consisting mostly of southern: is really the moving factor in Chinese domestic politico, for in this country, like all others, the silver bullet ie the one that eventually wins the fight. This close, tired of Manchu misrule, threw ites weight into the scale on the side of the revolution of 1911 and as a result Manchu rule came to an end.
Desirous of peace the merchants assisted Yuan in 1913 and consequently the rising of that year was promptly quelled.
The mercantile class is, a6 a whole, patient and peaceloviny but even their stock of patience is fast being exhausted, and on every side one hears muttered against Yuan's "Iron Heel The present insurrection of the times and, unless some drastic reforms are promptly effected in Peking, it will not be long before fire and sword again leave their indelible scars on the fair face of the Yangtze Val We cannot blame Japan if she for sincerely pray that the opportuni will not come in our generation. Tam, etc, Nanking, Feb. 26.
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