It is a peculiar mentality that persists in seeing in China's humid bation a foreign cause. Her hideous system of law or lack of it, her inability even to establish the form of government, the venality of cher officials, the. utter indifference of her people 10 tyranny, and her refusal of outside aid (except it be in the form of stealable silver) are glossed over or forgotten and we are urged to pray for the day "when justice will reign among the nations," and, they will give China what she would have had long ago if she had set her house in order.
Finally let us ask if the cold facts of history in the case of Japan and Korea warrant us in expecting any great thing spiritually from the relinquishment of extraterritoriality.
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