This travesty of democracy, and of freedom and equality, should be held up to the world for the condemnation it deserves, and should be resisted by Chinese as stoad-fastly as by otters. Its success real retrograde movement to be feared by all just and Progressive people, Shanghai must zealously guar inst, the introduction of this destructive _movement, and Chinese and foreigners should ce-operate to resist the most insidious foe to real reform and [progress with' which this eountry—and the world—has ever'been thie tened.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.