To the Editor of the "Norru-Caisa Datty News."
$1z,—In view of the report that pressure has been brought from Certain diplomatic quarters to bear upon the Chinese Government for sere japanese goods, the nder-topping the boycott movement signed organizations deem it advisable to make known the exact situation of the boycott movement and their views about it, The boycott is not, as is sometimes reported in the Japanese papers, instigated by American and British residents in China: nor by Chinese officials; nor by Chinese students. The students, however energetic they may be, being mere youths and forming only a 61 Percentage of the population, could not have made the movement attain such influence as it already has ip such a short time in so large a country.
The boycott is a spontaneous protest of the Chinese people against Japanese aggression an injustice which have marked her dealings with China during the last, few years, and which are clearly shown in the Twenty-One Demands, the Shantung case, in the recent Foochow outrage, in her ceaseless efforts of supporting and making use of the Chinese militarists and corrupt politicians to serve her own ends to China's ruin, and in many other ways which the Chinese people deeply resent and strongly'
As it is a spontaneous movement) the boycott spreads rapidly and irresistibly and soon gets the support of the whole nation.
It is reported that Japan, by threats of various kinds, is asking the Chinese Government to stop the movement. That the Chinese Gov-' ernment cannot stop such a movement is obvious to all, for no government on earth can compel its people to buy the goods of another nation which they do not desire. Could the Japanese Government! compel its people to buy the goods of another nation against their wishes?
While it is entirely out of the power of the Chinese Government to stop the boycott movement, we must clearly point out that there is only one way open to the Japanese Government if it wants to stop the boycott, and this is within its power to adopt: that is to remove. the causes of the boycott by reversing its policy of aggression and injustice to that of moderation and Yair play, by giving up all pretensions over Tsingtao and Shantung, and by ceasing all further support
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