Some Practical Experiences and a Palpably False Memorial By hope the eucoethes seribendi whi they say has led them to which has seized me on my return their present "opinion." I openly to China will not weary your read- challenge them to offer any such ers, but I take a very special examples and I make so bold as interest in the question of extra-to say beforehand that I do not territoriality and hold views on the believe they can give a single in matter which are not common but. stance; my own "opinion" is that which I'am convinced are right,! their assertion is one of conscious, as very evident, "Hard deliberate untruthfulness. I call novissina eat,"
"The times are) very pressing." If one is to speak one must speak quickly.
In the "North-China Daily News" of February 6 you make an editorial comment on the message of the Anti-National Association seat to attention to their first paragraph in which they set forth their views:
The privileges of extraterritoriality constitute a sort of permit to dishonest foreigners engaged in smuggling firearms and the Judicial Commissioners who are investigating the ability of the Chinese Government to-day to take of the just interests of the foreign community living in China, which have hitherto been looked after by the judges and justices of tional governments to which.
dividual members of the ign community are subject. I should like to supplement your comment.
Tt_would be dificult to find so brief a statement on any subject as that given in your columns which could cram so much "assertion of the false" and commit so much "suppression of the truth" as does this message of the Anti-Opium Association.
Let us begi the depreciatory reference to "the militarists" who "accord protection to the dealers in this unlawful line of business" and who "have compelled the: farmers to poppy despite strictness of the Inw." Who are these "'militarists"? The officers of the Astociation are really insulting the intelligence of the Commissioners to whom they are ssriting, in imagining that they will be' ignorant of the fact that} they are the men to whom the Anti-Opium Association officers themselves are subject for the actual administration of the "strict law" of which they talk and to whose administration they are now secking to subject the members of the foreign community.
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