Questions Three and Four, touching the ¢@arefu)] superintendence and surveillance of junior officials, and the eradication of illegal taxation are very pertinent and thoughtful. It is just these younger and less elevated men, who have a certain modicum of responsibil lity, that are in a position to take advantage of the opportunity to make life intolerable for others, and enrich themselves. Squeeze will now be reduced to the minimum possible, if all goes well.
The school problem has already squarely tackled. For some time teachers had been threatening to go on strike, because salaries had been in arrears. They are now content, the strike is warded off, and schools are being re-opened.
The Police Force, like that of Hongkong, is now being augmented. In Canton City now, happy to relate, few complaints are made to the police regarding disturbers of the peace.
New roads must be built in due course. This will be an excellent ccoupation for the unemployed, and ha dishandad soldiery. In~ fact ths whole plan of the Governor fits into itself so well, that it might be likened to 2 most harmonious concertina.
Lastly, but not least, the merchant population may really expect a better time to be coming at last. They have a merchant, mellowed and full of worldly wisdom, as their Governor in Canton. A new era has dawned. Again will it be possible for Chinese Morgans and Rockefellers to thrive in the City of Rama Hocqna, the great Chinese merchant of the 1820—1840 days in Canton, died worth $52, 000,000, so it is said. Other Hooquas may now come to the fore.
It will be easy to find grumblers ready to check the ardour of the baneful. Or rather, pessimists who will try to dampen the hopes of the healthy-minded. One does not, however, require to be a disciple of Coue to see that Canton and Kuangtung are definitely on the mend.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.