While foreigners write to us in protest against being crowded out by Chinese in public resorts where, according to existing regulations, they have no right to be, Chinese! representations reach us urging that [the Council will do something forthwith to remove a disability which they say—and we can believe them—eauses much feeling. "Tolerance, the writer of one letter to-da; {fears that the exclusion may 1 to a riot some night and he instance: ithe liberty given to beach combers to wash their clothes in the ornamental pond and to dry it about the garden, while respectable Chinese. may not enter at all. "Tolerance" suggests chairs at a fee and anyone who pleases to hire them. This is good as far as it goes but does not cover the whole ground, that is in respect of the big parks. The blame for the delay in finding a solution does not rest with the Council. As already] described it wrote immediately' after the ratepayers' meeting to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, asking the latter to appoint three delegates to confer with the Parks committee and recommend to the Council a plan of procedure. To this day the Chamber has done absolutely nothing, though twice its memory been jogged. We think everyone, Chinese and foreign alike, are agreed that the parks cannot be thrown open indiscriminately. Ard] the Council naturally wishes, in making a new regulation, to be sure that it will be acceptable to Chinese feeling. intrigue and jealousy But in the present state of the Shanghai, we doubt if it will get a frank expression of opinion from any Chinese. Our own has always been that the limitation simply of wearing gowns or foreign clothes would be sufficient, ani perhaps on these lines, without] farthering bothering about people who obviously are not going to risk unpopularity by expressing any] opinion, the council might take action independently.
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