"Missionaries have thet point of view and while We Aisagree with them radically, we no. legitimate check." upon misleading propaganda, No-presumably, can stop book-mig tourists from trotting out here and back and contributing their superficial impressions to the general mass of misinformation upon China, They are not in our pay. Neither are the purchaseable Journalists and advisers who serve China-in-chaos to the detriment of, all the ts of their countrymen and foreigners at large. Our only recourse with such folk is counter propaganda at Homg and this we do need badly—much worse in fact than we need anti-Bolshevik Propaganda among the Chinese. We are, however, thoroughly sick and tired, as American citizens and taxpayers, of being misrepresented and of having our position undermined. by our public servants,—to whose salaries and expenses we are contributing our share, but who ye as energetic apologists for champions of China at a time hen nothing is so urgently weeded to save us here as a nationwide appreciation of the critically gerous situation. eying for Misrepresentation oreed to keep them out of the Sankruptey courts, Not even the missionaries are un.' but in the face of real danger and propaganda to their faith and work, are keenly conscious than' any' ther class that times have changed that everything. i all wrong, 1 the mere atten of the cost Amesicans In China are very uch louched by polite al conditions Sul in what-might he called this itis cate, thee general. peace Tnd comfort of mind, all foreigners £0 profoundly affected bythe teat change for the worse in the timber of the Chinese people that
Yoarter feel" and. remark pon Yen the Heraion takin while there who leave om omnmunities now go with a feline tyeliet and 2 determination net 9 retarn, commirerating with those he are'not yet ready to wot shih is a change fu atttedee "Sreetly weeeable te political condi cus-of high noone. could have neeived few years age. when residents grew into the Gena As American citizens _under American jurisdiction we don't get much to" which we are con stitution ally entitled. We are taxed without representation. We are governed without the right to a Jury trial and, with "the position of all foreigners growing more precarious and our diplomatic policy expressive of nothing but the tearful home-side' consideration for China's rights on the one hand and an adroit dodging of vital issues on the other, we feel unanimously that we are taxed and ruled arbitrarily without even the guarantee of adequate protection. All of this we have put up with for a long time and have paid for it without a murmur, but when we find ourselves paying for representation we feel that we are artying the last straw. Apart m the protests which we are entitled to make and are going make to the highest possible authorities against this sort of thing, we are beginning to think that" the American commer commanity in China is now big adversity to have a China poli of its own and to put this policy forward through its own _re. presentation. We need a representative in Peking to tell the! Legation what American interests; out here really are when our dip-Tomats, in their splendid isolation, are' in danger of confusing 'American interests with China's, aspirations, as expressed by' the Bolshevized mob; and we need a representatives in Washington or New York to tell the press and the people exactly how things stand in China whenever a Chinese dip-
Iomat, or an—over-sympathetic missionary, or a seatter-brained tourist, or one of our own public servants feels called upon to depict} a as a pleasant and placid field, wide open to" the commercial pioneer, where the sower of. little seeds of capital can reap i rid harvest without fear of molestation from man, beast or weather. Anierica shapes policy here for the majority of the great Powers at this juncture and _vnless American policy, based largely standing such as this clipping contains and inspires, is radically altered by some conspicuously foolish Chinese act, we shall have to try to do what our resources will permit to alter it. The alternative is exodus."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.