No missionary, as far as know, was guilty of dishonesty-in this matter, though some men of my own profession were. But with 2,000 tly at home on ce-operating with the 2,000 or} more Chinese students at American Universities, continually condoning: the faults of Chinese, and, by inuuendo if not direct charge, blaming] the Japanese and the British for the present condition of China, a certain amount of poison has been put into} the American mind, Unwilli give the. Japanese orel any good thing, unable to realize that the Japanese are, in the last analy sis, the defenders of a helpless China agallist possible military aggression from Moscow, ignoring the fact that the safest part of China (for Chinese) in this present day is South Manchuria—too many missionaries have spread the idea that the Japanese are a danger to China. In my opinion any civilized foreign government would be 2 blessing to the Chinese people at the present time, T am confident, of cours, that eventually the Chinese would absorb if they did not eliminate any' aggressor nation that took charge of them and delivered them from, domestic tyranny and the horrors] under which they now suffer. I ani interested in the welfare of the Chinese people and not in the form. of government they have.
Recently a sentimental American lady to whom I was speaking on the subject of opium growing in China, asked me indignantly if I would hand this country over to the British. That, I was sorry to say,—I told her,—was impossible; the British wouldn't take it. But if they should, I said, I would exclaim (Thank God!"—not because T was interested in the aggrandizement of the British Empire but for the blessing British government would bring to the Chinese people, who are living under conditions that. existed in Europe back in the dark ages.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.