the Editor of the "NontH-CiiNa Dary News."
Sim,—Men were removing stone on 1 hill side: women. breaking} stone a short distance below them: 'a stone got away from one of the workmen and hit one of the wom fon the back injuring her shoulder.
was an accident pure and simple: admittedly a little more care and it would not have occurred—in every other kind of accident.
The workman is arrested and locked up: no attempt is made to feed him or to hold an inquiry. There he stays unless someone gets him released under guarantee. He will be subject to all kinds of exactions and harassments.
All this suits a state of primitive humanity, but it is unthinkable that foreigners with much more advanced ideas of justice and the inviolability of personal freedom could tolerate being subject to such treatment and yet such would be the case if extrality were abolished. In a word the Chinese are not ready for it yet and will not be for a long time unless some change comes over their mentality, Tam, ete, Justice.
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