"Six Frederick Whyte Foresees End: Problem for League By Sin Faevenick Warts, x.cs.t.
Life in China leads to short views; and the shortest views are those of the Treaty Ports. Here are assembled men of all. nation whose business is trade, to whom olitice are a matter of indifference, if not anathema, except when they impinge on commerce, and who ste absolved from the effort of understanding the Chinese by the working: of the Compradore system. To the high brow they leave the thankless task of looking into the future, Their frame of mind is the legacy of past times in which the foreign trader Was deliberately excluded from any ordinary participate Chinese life; and its chief political result to-day is that the foreign communities in the ports are 50 Ssolated from the main currents of modern China that they have little opportunity of gauging t fleanee. At the same tim are individuals in every port—Consuls, bankers brokers, missionaries—who have broken ott of the stockade which separates the foreigner from the Chinese. Such men Know what is going on, but even they often lose heart in the contempt Jation of the political chaos around them,
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