In one of my recent communications I advised you that, from personal observation, it appeared to me that there was no very substantial evidence that the Boycott League had taken a very firm hold on the business people of this great city. I find, however, that my judgment in this instance was scarcely reliable, It is true that those with whom I conversed seemed to look at the matter in a very porfunotory spirit, and to be somewhat sceptical to the success of the movement, but it has been found that those who have the ter in hand are in earnest, and have in their hands means to.carry their purposes into effect. One guild after another has joined the League, and last but not least the: native medical faculty, who have been trained in Western methods and. foreign iciness, and who patronised America largely, both for i struments and drugs, have thrown in their lot with the crowd. A very interesting and forceful article was published in the "Canton Times." The writer shows that when, in days gone by, Great Britain wished to tax America, the pioneer settlers did not hesitate to boycott English goods. It is quite refreshing to read the gentle native, wherein the writer asks whether the Americms. can consistently blame the Chinese when they
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