"To the Editor of the "Notn-Omina DANLY News"
'Sin,—The following is an illumiating example of what' woold happen to foreigners if extrality were ab-. alished unless the most stringent safeguards were introduced. hold a certain quantity of land under a Chinese title deed, the taxes officially mentioned on the PY. tax receipts are Tls. 4.86 for the two halves of the current year.
The proper amount in dollars would be say about $6.40, Allowing for the intermediate squeezes a Chinese would probably pay about $10 but I'am required to pay over The Chinese squeeze in the, case of a native is iniquitous and totally opposed to all ideas of taxation as understood by foreigners, but what about the $50 and more required of Altogether apart from all quostion of the judiciary and its unspeakable corruption, this matter of taxation is utterly impossible from the foreign standpoint, How is it possible for a civilized sand free Western nation to enter' into treaty negotiations on _anything like equal terms with a country like China?
Because rants what he calls The case is all the more hopeless.
equal treaties without taking steps to make herself equal and without apparently appreciating the fact of her total inequality. Until she understands the enormity of these deficiencies she 4s totally unfit to rule over civilized men, Tam, ete, Han Fact Up Country, Sept. 18, 1925.
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