Many missionaries have been inclined to forget that the right of their boards to own property and conduct mission work in the interior of China was obtained by force of arms, that the property they own probably more extensive than the concessions held by foreign powers, that no Japanese religious group has any such right as the Christians of Europe and America, Many mi sionaries are inclined to forget that when proceeding to liberate Cuba we annexed the Philippine Islands 6,000 miles away from us and a source neither of commercial nor strategic value, such as Karen was to Japan. The Japanese have given the Korean people the best government they have ever known, but until in recent years many of the mission: wore there, as in China, political agitate ors against the Japanese, totally ignoring our position in an equally large territory, equally populous and totally unnecessary to our we fare or security, the Philippine Many missionaries have ignored the fact that though our govern-mont declined to take any concossions in Treaty Ports after 1900, our consulates are everywhere that concession exists in that taking the protection from disease and lawless soldiery that the concession affords. Many] do not understand that economic need for China is railways, we Americans have never built a' single line for China, We have, howe repeatedly criticized others who have, because they have insisted that' guarantees shall be provided for payments to purchasers of the Chinese bonds that made the roads possible.
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