To the Editor of the "Nonre-Cmixa Dary News."
Sm,—I hope you will kindly insert in your valuable columns the following with reference to the American Boycott.
During 20 years the Chinese people have felt most keenly the indignities and humiliations to which they wore subject-od by the discriminating laws, especially enacted by the Americans against them. Any other nation would have long ago resented this, but China. The lapse of 20 years hus brought n change. The people are having their eyes -oponed. Not finding redress anywhere, they attempt at least to help themselves. And so they inaugurated the Boycott, the best if not the only means within their power by which they hope to induce—I will not say compel—the Americans to accede to their just demands.
I will not say it is morally right for anyone to retaliate, whether the provocation justifies the action or not. But I think that of all people the Americans ought to be the last to condemn the Boycott, for if they will lay aside all prejudices and be open to condi they will readily concur with me in the belief that the best remedy is to remove the cause, and the movement will dissolve of its own accord.
The present is a commercial age, This fact will be more and more true in unison with time. In the markets and great emporiums of the world more than in the gory battle-fidds will the future struggles of the nations be fought, Why do Japan's cannons speak so cloqueatly on the Manchurian plains,"but that she might acquire new marts for her wares—fresh fields for her commerce This in, the very place too, above all others, America was most anxious to keep the doors side open.
When the war is over—may God speed the time—ihen will begin an industrial progress in China and Manchuria. Japan will undertake to conquer markets storm as she has assailed the enemy's ramparts. Enterprising nations will vie! with each other. for supremacy. Theve is equal opportunity for all,—uone will be slighted.
But what will America do? Her commerce wi is already enormous, and ty all appearances susceptible vf a tremendous increase. Will she step forward in a businesslike manner befitting a trve Yankee, and take advantage of this grand opportunity, make. herself 8 nome, and rising in political esteem in the eyes of the Chinese for that matter; or must she relinquish this hope and retire abashed, debarred from the fine prospect of a splendid commercial career from which she, by her own Exclusion Laws will have excluded herself.
America has everything to lose and nothing to gain by her Exclusion Laws.
Tam, ete., 8. K, Ly.
Tsingtao, 12th August, We trast our correspondent's prophecy that the movement will dissolve of its own accord will be very promptly fulfilled—Ep.
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