A knowledge of these facts would have been an awkward obstacle to Dr. Sun Sat-son when he was writing in his "San Min Chu-i" of the use of foreign bank notes in China as an illustration of economic oppression, They are evidence of the most exasperating character to the Patriot of the faith of the Chinese rank and file, whose tastes in currency certainly control the money market in Hongkong as well as in the China coast ports, id foreign paper. When they will pay a pre-jum in hard cash to get rid of ver and acquire that paper stead, they must be very profoundly convinced that the issuance of that paper is a very honest transaetion indeed and not an act of economic exploitation.
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