The Chuneking merchants are credited with a move that will inconvenience them as much as foreigners one would think. It] is a move against foreign banks. It is not easy to see how this work. When Mr. Ching wants to send a thousand or more dollars to Shanghai he finds a foreign cheque a very handy piece of paper. Perhaps the Bank of China which is take charge of this new issue will be able to arrange for all that! There is no doubt that if the Chinese let their spleen carry them thus they can make it far inconvenient for foreigners; but not without considerable inconvenience to themselves. Foreigners have not thought it worth while to retaliate, vut if all the foreigners in Chengtu alone gave up buying silk for year the silk-shops would have much lighter coffers; and much] Jess money to send to Shanghai or anywhere else. The fact of the matter is, that both merchants and students have too much time for sedentary thinking; if only they could put all this choler into a determined effort to get the energetic military to draw their energy in right directions what lot of good might be done.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.