With the vision of true statesmanship, with broad and liberal views to bear on the subject of tariff revision, you will loathe to play the part of scraping iron from the point of a needle—of giving China anything less than an effective five per cent.
I will make myself better understood by quoting what Mr. Balfour said at the Pilgrims' Society dinner party in London on February 25. Mr. Balfour said: The representatives of the Nine Powers took about 16 weeks' labour to bring the Washington Conference to an unmixed satisfaction to every one present and no representative will return home without claiming that he has furthered the interests of the world and thereby the interests of his own people."
If that be true of the representatives at the Washington Conference I am sure it shall be true of the delegates of this Commissi We cannot do less and feel less. Our work may be Less in degree of importance but its quality shal] not be less. We too shall finish with perfect satisfaction to all present for furthering the interest of the world and the interest of our on people.
At the conclusion of his address, Admiral Tsai said he did not expect that the first session of the Conference would take place until at least a week hence.
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