Practically every mail. brings from Home fresh examples of extraordinary misunderstanding of far-reaching Sales. Ht wil affect, trade Beye felling boycott againat. Pay break belek indust nin Japanese tarred
Completely for years. it will chelem whole idea" of a, tling cines criminating against the people of the country Im which it rulon™ who were not always appreciative of the monetary aid, and at times wilfully misused the sub-nidies they received.
The relationships between employers and employees are to-day not as cordial as they might be, the situation in China, Many of; 4 there are undoubtedly wilful and population apropos of them a correspondent in Manchester writes:—Fogance and that the very class who.
I i curious here at Home) ton their hands thing ro relation! employ."
It would be difficult to imagine a better example of malignant half in truth. Who are the "ruling class. but it is doubtful whether they thst foreigners hare "no. busi neat a #eFiminating against the people tre, lust'now shouting thei loader" [ietrimiottogs China, and that inese she of the country?"
If Miss are aa bad ap they were in the] Cur nem alf cot early years of the 19th century.
There was class hatred in those days, and agitators, with selfish aims, existed a hundred years ugo just as they do to-day. The beginning of the 19th century saw a very restricted franchise. Trade unions were looked upon with distrust and only obtained: real power to use their funds in 3869, There was no unemployment benefit at that time. Old ugo pensions had never been thought of, there was no such thing as workmen's compensation, and the Poor Law was a But with all coureny it is not ous at are certain whose standing principle appears to be "My countrymen. alveys in the wrong." (The "Japas Chronicle"" by the way, appears lutely to have joined the band). Precisely the same spirit, therefore, which prompts them to object Bolsheviks, let us say, being ced out of England for its com: fort, would urge them to ery that Englishmen, for their discomfort, must be turned: out of China, Gilbert hit off these curious people praises in enthu: thoroughly bad law. The death rate in those days was double what it is to-day. Tea, sugar, meat and tobacco were only pur-chagaable by comparatively few people. Wages, even regarded relatively to purchasing power, have increased all round, while hours of labour have decreased. The criminal laws of those days were marked by a savagery and brutality quite inconceivable to-
Every century but this oonury but his own. every The World's Best View Apropos of some discussion that seems to have been going on at Home, Mr. T. Simmons of Edinburrh writes the following letter to the "Daily Mail":—my opinion the world's est view fs either the Firth of Forth as seen from Edinburgh Castle, or Malta seen fqn one enters the port of Valetta day. In" fact one sometimes FoF, night view one hae to go.) wonders whether we have not] {inn Hongkong' viewed Yio tone to the other extreme and whether it would not be better for society as a whole if more drastic measures were taken against certain classes of offend-era: A century ago there was practically no regulation of conditions of employment in factories and mines, and education was such that the great majority of children were quite illiterate. Taken all round, there has been enormous improvement in the condition of the people compared with a century ago when the state of the workers was such 4s would not be tolerated for a moment to-day by the most fossilized old. Tory.
Pinally we have only to read history to learn that even the Menace of Bolshevism has its Parallel in the past. In the early days: of James T, the fear of Popery puts one strongly in mind of the apprehension felt to-day for Communist intro the ggndition of public Granted Hongkong, with all its fairy-like lights leading up to the Peak, but as for the other two we can imagine much controversy. In fact the business is something like that which had two or three years ago almost as big a vogue America as the crossword puzzle, namely to decide who were the ter, world had produced. The latter oF dozen greatest men that the brought out some weird opinions, absolutely unheard of people being quoted, and nobody agreed. on any' of them. In the same way, that the Firth of Forth or Valetta. should get: away without a protest is too much. to expect. There is no doubt about how impressive the great sweep the Forth is, and the attraction of the terraced heights of Valetta, but on the: other hand Naples Bay has an established reputation of its own, imagine now: while the dread of. the Jacobins in Pitt's day gave honest folk many sleepless nights. Some of these alarms were well grounded, others not. But one! and all, with bad tines, bad \Thoburn and. Mise' MacNeill reter to the Municipal: Council they. must, know perfectly well that what they. say is untrue. It is a fact that) Chinese in Shanghai do not have the vote, but they have what they appreciate far more—security of life, an admirably managed town to live in and very light taxation; and: incidentally, as Shanghai was set' aside by the Chinese Government as a place of foreign residence and management, they have no legal claim to the vote, about which, as it is not possessed by residents in any city of China, it is safe to say that ninety-nine out of a hundred ido not care a pin. As for "ar-Yogance and ill-bred manners," we have often blamed the Behaviour of certain foreigners. But what, on the other hand, of the thousands pounds (even millions) that for eigners in China have subscribed: for famine relief, hospitals, schools, charitable undertakings among the Chinese of all kinds? Whab of the infinitely better pay and better con-Jditions of labour which foreign employers give as compared with [Chinese houses? What of the old. age pensions for their Chinese employees which many foreign firms give? Miss Thoburn and. Miss MacNeill say nothing of the general misrule in China, banditry, military, extortion and political corruption which as surely prepared the way for the present upheaval as Manchu misrule paved the way to Boxerism.
is always the foreigner that a certain type of foreigner must attack. That "Miss Thoburn and Miss MacNeill are actually en-the safety of their kith jand kin, they probably do not care. But what sort of good do they think they are doing to the institution sociated? with which their names are as-
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