To the Editor of the "Nonrs-Caiva Datty News."
Sm,—Your' evening "contemporary of yostorday'é date, under' the' caption Mrouble in Shanghai," contains the sur-Wingpe guild have expressed their regret rising stutemont that the' heads of the for-what hus ocourred" ' This, Mr. Editor, direct, couteatiction to the view: these Uriah Hoops held on the 14th inst; when they mot at' the Sz Ming Hui Club rooms, at which some 7,000 natives wore present, in order to devise 08 and' retaliate on the English officials for the insult offered to their magistrate at the Mixed Court. There wore several speakers, the most promi being Yin Heltin (Chairman), Sun: Chi-"Ho Ming-yun, Wang Ching-pu, Lin Pang-ching;" Chou Wen-kuei, Jon Ching-yoh; Chu Vu-tang, Chou bion-shang, and Wei 'Sang-yean, The gist of thei the "foreigners their: officials and treated the' Chi generally with contempt, they could not Dit resist such insults' to the death, But as the Waiwupu hind not yot decided whit to do in the matter, itbehoved them for the present to keep the peace andiawait their "decision, and: on no account make 1y- trouble, But that if the said Board andthe Taotiai gave in to the foreigners, they; the Chinese people, would muke firm-stand, oven if death ware the result" (it would be interesting to hear of any of these braggarts losing their lives for any officials to-do now is, to demand the dis charge of the. British assessor and the punishment of all the Police' offender to ost iblish a gaol with: a Chinese dire: for, and that for the future Chinese of either sex-are not to be sent to the foreign prison, "And when once matters have been thus adjusted we must stick doierminedly to our rights and on no account'to: regard it asa rash and reck-loss, butts a civilised undertaking, othe wise foreigners, will regard. it~as-merely having a begivnin, no ending, tiger's head anda serpunt's tail way of doing things, That -is;~-much ery and "The. foreigners finding. that, our American' boycott had no result, now oppress us mote than ever, and should Wo obtain no, redress,, we will call a mass Sm,—In your issue of yesterday morning your Chinese correspondent contributes an account of the rioting in the Settlement on the 19th, and closes with an anecdote illustrating clemency of the' foreign police. act of el 3 mieney (sic) was the' rose by some of the European constable of a couple of rowdies caught handed in" an attack pou a Sikh, Now experience with the Chinese his always shown that clemency does not appeal to them; it is entirely opposed to all their methods; in a' word, they construe it as'weakness, The "shout of approval fromthe' crowd, to which your Chinese correspondent alludes in such a touching "m: was, I shrewdly suspect, more in the nature of a'shout of derision. Doubtless the European police were only noting under ordérs—that all'througli the lamentable, events the'''past few days their powers have, been' woefully " limited—but release these rowdies without, in-fioting' any' punishment. seems, to a mere outsider a piece of incomprohen folly which the Chitose will assuredly. regard as 'a confession of weakness and orel id mo yesterday that in his opinion stringent monsiires taken at the outset "would have quelled the distarbance at once, surely boo igo, very, possibly' no' further trouble would have occurred. As it is, encouraged by the mild and gentlemanly treatment meted out, to them by the police, the rowily element may rally aiid gain larg with what result no man can foresee. If the trouble is not speedily and effectually quelléa by the most stringent repressive méasiirés, who shall say where it may.li end? The' Boxer rebellion started in the sumo way, with -dedultory rioting.
ports" OF sympathetic disturbances at some of the river ports and in the Soochow district are already afoot, and unless a firm attitude is adopted now these. will: probably imatorialise: into the most formidable anti-foreign agitation: in tory of Chins.
word more. On the foreshore are sedts specially reserved for foreigners only,: and_each seat is: inseribed-to th effect' in En; se. Daring fi the last few days these seats have been in the possession of Chinese, who loll about on-them and sneer covertly at the passing foreigner. A couple -of - bluejackets -or. on the present situation in Chiia, which bag bei mistoprésonted by: ti ondetita signed "L. 0." and "A:
of the Uilited States" who cor tainly do more harm than good by the ping stateineits set forth it their ra? Tu the first' place, the freqadiit reference to the otitbroak of 1900 is not only, irrelevant, but) also shows the: tendency of the' part' of many foreign'
iters to'dravw hasty conclusions in' de ing with questions Gonesruiig China: ions lightly suoh'a national" in. which foreigners and Chineso'aré' in: volved in dispute: a To speak frankly, the Boxer: outbroale was nothing.moré than the result of the repeated aggression from without,' which': drove the Chinese rulers and people to:
i obey. The ignorant was'worked up to the height' of madness nnd. fanaticism, culminating in the reckless use of the fico and sword, attended. with outre, horrible for description. Foreigners hundreds, and Chines of thousands, and what some of the allied tréops'did in the north is a lasting disgrace to Western civilisation, which it will take centucié of good deed to wine out, Surely, this is. not a theme to be dwelt upon when there ion for it. are: not quite: clear. to my' mind. would be well," says he, "for all aries in the interior to keep.o1"th guard. We should be' careful in our dealings with the Chinese." If he mai hat the: missionaries in the interior:
ald avoid anything in the way of in fringing the r.ghts of the Chinese people, then his warning is most timely; else, is consciously or: unco:
ug: which wi L-0." would be reason! able if he, or any~of his countrymen, under the similar ciredmstances would ivor taks- the same stand: Let him put him: self in one place, and ho will feel it wy so take the very course which he has"
ulemned, The" Exelasion Act, the" contentions" Manchurian question, tha massacre'at Vladivostock, and the Mixed Court affair will make the blood of the spiteful and clamorous, if lie be.s0' melancholy'as to suppose that his coun. try'is sharing thesame lot. Farther, let": us assure him that good-will is, "and will
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