This leads to a final suggestion: It is evident that there is a large body. of moderate Chinese, Chinese who. are not even pathy with the. present agitators. Many very influential Chinese bet ong to this body. There is also a large number of Chinese.wha would be satisfied if: the Manicipal Coun cil inaugurated a: judicial inquiry relations, Many of these men are well known to, and, in numerous tasses, the actual personal friends of influential foreigners. Why is it not possible for those intuer foreigners to get into closer touch with their Chinese friends, hold informal meetings at which free ox-pression of ideas and may take place, with the ultimate tend in view of a conference of bu hess Leaders, Chinese and foreign, in Shanghai, held in an atmosphere of mutual confidence and conciliation, out of which might arise an amicable adjustment of alli the Rrievances on both sides and the passing of a satisfactory set of regulations governing the life and activity of the Shanghai community asa whole.
In other words let us foreign Jet ths Chinese know in no uncertain manner that we will stand no more of their present tactics, that we-are going to stick out for our rights Well as they, but that we are-per~ fretly willing to be friends, to.mect them in a conciliatory mood, to! lis~ ten to what they have to say, and to come toa just and mutually agreeable adjustment of interests, and, most important of all, to bind ur-feives along. with them to an agree ment to settle all future differences by arbitration, and not by recourse to such methods as have been pursued in the recent trouble Tam, ote
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