Many Americans saw this thing couling, and the missionaries should have seen it. Many miggionaries have boasted of their superior knowledge of China and the Chinese, above that of the business man and official, because they, the missionaries, lived among the people and spoke their language. As.a group they have now shown, since the Nanking. affair and the evacuation of the Yangtze Valley, their lesser understanding. But the missionary. voice and not that of men like Silas Strawn was the one that was heard in the United States until the very missionaries who appealed for the removal of gunboats in February took refuge upon them in March and went to safety in the foreign concessions of Shanghai.
The Cancer in China The trouble with China is a deep, terrible cancer within herself, but too many missionaries have been their students and their fellow Americans that the trouble was the warts and pimples of foreign concessions on China's face. The concessions, the extraterritoriality, the control' of China's customs, can all be got rid of easily if the Chinese will organize an honest government, making life secure for foreigners and investments safe. The foreign nations are at great expense in maintaining gunboats and troops in China, and China in her present condition is always a source of di ger to the peace of the world, present a tempting bit for Bois No civilized nation wants either the expense of maintaining warships here or the prospects of war. Th is wadi China, and no one Tt may, curry favour with students to tell them their country is the prey of aggressive Japan and grasping England, but the true friend speaks of the really dangerous things within China,
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