Mr. Ku Hung Ming has a somewhat curious but interesting. observation in connexion with "Squeeze and corruption." He says, "The squeeze and corruption in China is a product not of dishonesty or immorality, but of the want of discipline... and this want of discipline again is a product of incapacity for the educated class in China—ineapacity for order, method and system, In fine, if the Chinaman is so inherently dishonest, as some people say, I would ask how is it that foreigners who have had any business relations with Chinese are often heard to say 'A Chinaman's word is as good as his bond?""
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