Let us now enlarge the main question and pat it in another way, Who the right of leg for fore eigoors and Chinese in Manchuria? A private railway company or a powerfal Empire? It cannot be the Rassian Star, bresuse Raskin would be violate ing her owo undertaking, recorded in Paragraph III. of the Treaty of Porte-mouth, Neither can it be the private company, because no private company in any part of the world is competent to issue laws for the goveroment of a province. Moreover, a charter, like a statute Law, must have a justification, and " justification which does sot ran conater to common-sense. Now, the only reason offered to the Chinese Goveroment for concessions to the rs company which now governs Marcharia was the nead of being able to administer its property in its own way without lot or bicdraace from the Chinese. But it would be an insult to common-sense to affirm that the reilwsy company cannot run its trains
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