To the Editor of the "Naam-Onmma Dairy News, Sim,—Many persons both foreign and Chinese sre beginning to wonder whother foreign intervention would not be the best salt of the present crisis.
Foreiga intervention" is a somewhat vague aim and if foreign powers are to intervene in China, the form of their intervention and the right upon which it is based will have to be del ined as 5 regarded parely from view. Has England the its services in order to compose the quarrels between the revolutionaries and the Goverment England does a large trade with China which is of course adversely affected by the present civil commotions. If China, vulgarly speaking, is allowed to go to the dogs, our trad will be still more satiously affected. diminution of trade does not only injure merchants ut in China, but it also affects meycbante, manufacturers, mill-hands in England who have found China in the past " large purchaser of their goods. The English people, or very large section, are therefore directly interested in the prosperity of China, and the prosperity of Chine is of course Inrgely dependent ea its good govern-therefore, directly or indirectly interested in the good government of Chins, and it appears absurd to say that we have not the right to raise a finger to aseist China to obtain or retain good government in China, and I think it would be going too far to agree that the Chinese are at liberty to misgovern themselves and we are not to intervene if intervention will assist the toria! prosperity of China, I do. not cause of good government and the ma-
agree for any kind of intervention bat for intervention directed to one end, the better government of the country.
The second question is what form should intervention take. Most minds will leap to the solution of armed inter-
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