Why Foreigners Insist on the Retention of Extraterritoriality From an Up-Country Correspondent.
The reading of what news your telegrams give from Washington, really makes one rub one's eyes, to make sure that one is not dreaming. Agreed in principle" to the doing away with extraterritoriality. But what, we ask, has happened to the delegations of the different centries who have had a Jong number of years intercourse with this land? It cannot be that they do not know what is going on in the way of abuses of law every day in the interior, it would be a blot on the good sense and up-to-date knowledge of those men who are representing the different nations, to say that they do not know.
Then I read. that a Commission is to visit the East to look into the Laws, etc. of this Republic to ascertain (I presume) whether these are sufficiently far advanced to allow of all the Western men, women and children, being committed to their care. One really wonders what has happened. The Laws of this good old Country may indeed be very good as they appear on the Statute Book, but what about the administering of them?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.