The "Shanghai shimbun,"" which pul tack upon the British early December,—an article which met with such disapprobation among the Japanese community that the editor withdrew and apologized for it—has made some interesting comments this week on the result of the Municipal election.
'After stating' that the result of the election was certainly regret: table to the Japanese community, the writer says that every one of the 150 Japanese voters went to the polling booths, whereas formerly Japanese voters had displayed a amount of indifference i crystal, but life as a nation is full of major evils, In ordinary life person who steals small things is condemned as a criminal, but those who rob a country are honoured as ings. As an individual we respect and love a Briton, but we are warned to watch closely Britons as a body. Britons are a political people by birth and they like politics as a duck likes water...
"They have established their national foundations on commerce and industry, and roamed about the world struggling hard to achieve their objects by a business policy and commerce maneuvre; they have become a nation seeking for material gain. Moreover, they naceees large colonies and have vealously studied how to maintain them, consequently they have become a nation whose own interests are always uppermost, Did any nation use Japan for her own advant-ge much more than the British at the time of the Boxer outbreak in '9001 Britone may look stupid, but they are not; on the contrary they are wonderfully smart in thinking and have a sharp sense of material calculation, which works with such rapidity as to go round the world in a second.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.