To the Editor of the "Norru-Cuina Daly News."
Sin,—It is somewhat distressing! cooperation is considered escentis to find that an attempt is being made to split the influential elements] of this community into racial and religious schisms.
I refer to the distribution of pamphlet called the "China Edition") of the alleged "Protocols of Zion".
It makes no difference what "proofs" may be adduced, or what authority lies behind this work; -ts dissemination at the present moment is inapt, unnecessary and provocative. It can do litle else but sti up racial bogies, upset. public eondence and disturb business.
As to the actual authenticity of this pamphlet, its antecedents) matter very little, for it is on the face value of its contents nothing. more than decayed matter salvaged from the literary garbage cans of the world.
And. yet like rotting garbage it can poison with its infected contents.
tis in a class with the rest of the world's anti-racial and anti-sectarian hocus-poons.—It belongs to the sort of buncombe which once had Protestant. America upset over! the alleged existence of arms and ammunition "in the basements of every Knights of Columbus building, ready to overthrow Washington and establish a popish state.
What possible good can it achieve by circulation in Shanghai? What, public sentiment can it arouse in his: cosmopolitan community to an extent that would make it lose its power over the rest of the world? What forees could it start in Shanghai that it has not started broad? Supposing its content were true, what can the diversified foreign populace of Shanghai do about it? Do we mould world opin-jon? think not.
What if Henry Ford actually said) that, whether true or not, it "Atted in" with developments of the past 16 years? What does the fiver merchant and peace ship apostle represent outride of his own interests?
One can find thousands of things for and thousands of things against almost any pablic movement in the world, according to what one seeks. There are just as many cranks who disprove Christianity as there are martyrs to prove it.
The circumstance of this "inane propaganda is not without its humour. Just when certain elements have accumulated an' imposing! fabric of evidence against the communist movement, along comes this nightmarish clap trap to tie the] whole affair to the empty frothings Of a diseased imagination.
Once identified with this mummery the whole structure will begin to topple; to dissipate into the rabid; vaporings of cranks.
What joke!
Tam, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.