could quote several cases where the Inck of ce-operation has been exemplified during the past few months, also, where a little initiate-e the part of the residents would lave met with the approval of both the local authorities and the respeetive Governments, but I do not feel at liberty to divulge name titer particulars now. Tu any ease, Wwe must look to the future, rot bother too much with the' pas! 'That future must be the welfare of Shanghai residents, both Chinese! and foreign, provided they be hence? people, but' every effort must bs|a made to purge this city of its Bolshevik and unruly clements. No} doubt, many of you will say:—"How this to be done?" That is a question I cannot answer at presen! but, with the hearty ce-operation you all, ways and means can anil {will be found to meet this and other difficulties as they arise. To he quite frank, T have no cut-and-dried policy' to place before you tovlay. Even the preliminary] formation of the party has taken many weeks of hard work, and it will be necessary for you to elect, at least, a provisional committee before discussing details, and, in the meantime, there are several matters T should like to mention.
Those so-called unequal treaties. Twender how many Chinese who call for their abolition know anything whatsoever about them. Unequal they may be, but not to the extent the young politician of China would make them gut to. be. Admitting for the moment thai extraterritoriality. is one of the things to be abolished, is this the time to abolish it? Most emphatically, no. Take the Provisiona' Court, as it is run to-day. Could the judges be relied upon to dea! cut justice to the foreigners in China? No! Why, they eanmot give Justice to their own nationals, s0 how could the foreigner expect it? Let Chinn clean her own house first before she dictates terms to others. Have real Courts where justice can be obtained; not as they are at present, with judges at the beck an? call "of individenl military bandits, with bribery and corruption the only Taw known,
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