May 14.
The influence of public opin-view transparent hocus-poons when the German and Austrian lion upon international relations under the condition that it must] Legations were placed under has become such in recent years be taken seriously and that no} neutral jurisdiction. There was} jin all democratic countries that one must smile.
We like-to be then a Government in Peking it is utterly hopeless to expect, hoaxed when it is understood that was internationally re-from any: Occidental Govern-that it is all abracadrabra and cognized as the Government of ment action contrary to the pre-that we re free to laugh at} China, and there was in no part vailing sentiment of the masses. incongruities, but we hate to fof this country such a rabidly This'has been pointed out 80! pretend that we are stupid fanti-foreign enterprise as this letten in these columns, and has enough to take seriously and) Nationalist" movement. At this been said in so many different solemnly such grotesque dtstorjuncture the Peking administra-]ways, that our readers may feel tions of existing facts and imtion is recognized by no, major warranted in thinking its repeti-prospects as are em-ition boresome; yet it is a fact bodied in Sir Austen Chamber-mediate Power as the Chinese Government and the entire country is that is obviously too little ap-Jain's review of the situation. honeycombed with anti-foreign preciated still, since the efforts We must resent, if we have any organizations that outdo the that are being made by the for-self-respect, such bland chal-'Boxers in both intensity of fecleign communities in Chna to! Jenges to our intelligence, such ing and intelligence of direction. ledueate public opinion abroad cool assumptions of our stupidity, Tu this, a3 in so many of the—in Great Britain, America and of the stupidity of the whole! conciliatory gestures that we are and Japan __particularly—are Occidental public. making (the readjustment of the still so obviously inadequate. It is status of the British Concession! not yet sufficiently understood in Tientsin for instance), it that we might spend all the sil-
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