May 25.
China has undoubtedly often suffered more from her so-called friends than from those whom the Chinese like to regard as biased critics. Particularly have foreigners who become China's advocates done irreparable mischief in the untruths they have told and in the excesses to which they have gone. But none has been as stupid and as mischievous as Mr.
Leighton Stuart, President of Yenching University in Peking, who in an address in Philadelphia sought to achieve the revision of treaties and succeeded in damaging the reputation of China as much, if not more sv, than could have been done by the worst enemy of the Chines
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