To my Chinese Friend, My dear Friend, T am just writing you a few lines of regret that our discussion should have waxed so warm the other night that we parted without the usual farewells, When I look back on the lat 27 years and think of the many many, Giesussions on all sorts of topies—some of the most intimate character, which you and I have enjoyed gether at your home and mine, indeed sad to realize that should have parted thus, 'Though I a foreigner and you a Chinese, we have alf these yea appreciated one another's view points. have learnt: much of value to me and T-venture to hope you may, have gleaned a few scraps from me' which you may have found helpful to you.
I would here quote Mencius wh" says:—Good affects all men in the same "Sacrifice should be made far others"
"To hand on goodness to others the greatest good"
But you were. terribly enraged In the hope that you may perhaps Jock upon the subject of our discussion in a more reasonable spirit, Tam writing you these few lines, You remember: how violently you condemned the shooting by the police May 30, You argued that the rioters were mere barmier boys that no warning was given, that the fire hose should have been triad first ete. ete, But do, you not think that St would have been bert it to have suspended your judgment until the promised investigation hud been held? Do you recollect that summer evening at your house last year when we lay in long chairr in the moonlight while a cool 8, E, breto wafting in the scent of your big magnolia tree, und I discoursed to you on the distinctions between the British and American systems of trial on the one hand and those of the Continental "Nations on the other, the principal of the former being that every prisoner is considered innocent until he is prov-guilty I recollect how warmly you eulogized that system, Have you ever experienced the temper of a furious Chinese mob? I don't think there is anything so demoniacal in the world, It is eapable of anything. Doubtless that unfortunate Police Inspector "who gave the order to his five or six men te fire knew what would happen to him and his subordinates if he hesitated a minute. Perhaps he remem. bered what occurred in 1905 when the Louza Police Station was burnt down. And even if for the sake of argument we admit he exercised his discretion a little to hastily (and you remember I told you I denied this) do you seriously urge that he, @ man with a and a valuable servo ployers, is to be dismiss this seem fair?
Why should you place the action of the 8. M. Police at such a high standard? What do soldiers do in any city in the interior of China when a mob is rioting? Do soldiers try for an hour to persuade rioters to disperse before shooting Do you remember what Ho Feng-Ying's soldiers' did to the Students in the Shanghai City in 1920, You and I, my dear friend, have lived in peace all these years in Shanghai. You have been successful in business and have saved money. You have built yourself comfort able house where your wife and children are safe from the disturbances which prevail all over China fat the present time. Have you £0 soon forgotten the events of ast autumn when thousands of country people sought sanctuary in the Set-jHlement and were not denied You told me then, you remember, how glad you were that you resided here and how you appreciated the action of the Municipal Authoritiey for not turning them away.
You pay your regular taxes, no more and no less than at the rate fixed by the foreign ratepayer. You have good water, light and sanitary arrangements, and good remis upon which your car runs for many miles. Is there any town in China that can compare with it I do not say that we foreigners have brought you every blessing since we first
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