Unless this is set right there is no possible hope for China except in a Government supplied from without. The people of this country must understand that as they become articulate it is their first duty to shout their grievances against their own misrule, to shout down their corrupt officials and to order their militarists to do their duty in thaintaining peace and order. With government at its present Low ebb in China this" boycott movement is simply an outrage against common sense. It is also a manifestation of a rabid Boxer spirit which threatens all foreign lives and interests in China. It is something which all foreign residents in this country and all sane Chinese should unite to condemn and suppress and it should stay suppressed until the enthusiasm that is behind it is educated up to the point where it is ready to run first in domestic channels. Them when it has achieved the domestic reforms which would justify dignified protestssfrom China, it will have every warrant to turn its accumulated strength against the outsider when he is unreasonable or unjust.
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