To the Editor of the "Nomri-Caiwa Daicy News."
Sin,—Yourcorresponsience columns given prominence daring. the few days to letters from Chin-gentlemen on subjects such as Unequal Treaties," letters that do xno more than pertinently remind us of the deplorable conditions prevail. {ng in China and the unpleasant fact that the moment a Chinese "at thority" walks in to assume control, we foreigners walk out. Instead of thos vapouriging and ideatizing, these Chinese gentidmen would be rendering a palpable service, both to their own country and to foreigners, by dwelling on, and through their good example by ending, the boycott that is being pressed against British and Japanese goods.
It is understood that a boycott is maintained only an. article which we do not manufacture but which is imported; no one boycotts goods of one's own making. This means that a boycott is no more han the suppression of a commodity which is necessary for the welfare of the people, and which cannot be manufactured locally. The Chinese by boycotting British and Japanese goods which they cannot make themselves, are merely depriving their children of the essentials for their well-being. What, then, is the use of the boycott?
The Chinese boycott is either an act of voluntary puniskiment or a retaliative measure, If it is scourge ing the Chinese are after, there are better ard simpler methods to ursue—war, for instance, with one of the two Powers in question, would Provide all the chastisement required the quickest possible time. But, of course, the Chinese are out for prisals, they are waging an economic war, they are going to ban Great Britain and Japan by notbese Ing their goods, How iapeacte:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.