the Editor of the "NomrH-Cina Dany News."
Sin,—Becaure I am optimistic of dispelling some of the extreme forms Jot racial prejudice and intolerance characterizing Sino-foreign relations, and of instilling into minds not yet completely shut to further develop. ment the need of a new spirit of mutuality in. approaching current problems, I will depart from custom and reply to genuine eritielsms. lent sincerity. He states his cate atraighttorwardly with genuine be-ict in his deductions, and after cit Jing three instances—the slum region along Siccawei Creek, the alleged decline of a Chinese. managed institution, and the uncleanliness and rglaries at Tsingtao—he arrives, n the face of these facts", at the conclusion that "nothing" ig" right with Chin Doubtless he has a background of other facts—I know of far more sevicus things myself—but. he is quite content to rest hia case upon these three. And in doing 20 "Briton" ig not by any means. alone, there are hundreds of others in the same frame of mind—the pity of—hundreds of otherwise Teasonfable and charming persons equally sincere and confirmed in their opin-fons that "such conditions are sufficient to condemn a whole nation, The existence of similar slums in thousands of Western cities; failures, bankruptcies through ma Administration, motions of thousands of business ventures annually in the West; and the unsanitary, unhygienic state of many Western' factory towns mean very little to "Briton" or be would not consider inevitable human evil, ignorance, and stupidity as sufficient [grounds for so sweeping an indictment.
There would be just as much sense in a stranger observing the slums, of London, a million unemployed living on the dole, a great coal strike, the ris Bose nity ae "boc red] pox, the idle rich and the equally, Doyle)
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Fon voyage. Donald Duncan, And, wider the ave tighten ry" Bie' yor fight iy'the quae of the°seversl torsion power Chanig Tso-in, the Manchurian war} Jon continues to hold Pek lately with more assurance since the southern advance hex not only" been itched at the, Yangtee "Out fas Wroken up under inter out Bae "ching Toon feubies in hie rear, "where Lipeie Baye had SES" same Vigorous measures against his Agents." "Meanwhile the Chris ian General, Peng Yur een more "oF lens South "china "Ni Sed the moater of Peking is menaced fromthe north. Heavy" Aghting is Rotted" near Kalgany 100. mile ovth of Peking. Shantung is tua Hate of comparative peace "under Goncerned, but its Sandie ridden, the. recent The "former "is" now Mankow, but meathehile there poet Hi Dailey ota advance §pon the home capital of the southern cement by, led bande wader the Communist placards have' been scat: Boishories SpNation' eailag"?ea {ered widely" with type als peasants and workers: to"arm. The Ranking "moderate government Said torbe almost iky as that of the Hankow Rode. It ig not une likely" thatthe extremists will gain control of Canton and a good part see offers encouragement communist "agitation and to' the FRalae inBuesce™ of Moxos couragement for Chinese" patriots diplomacy. "Tt offers nothing bet diet idle' poor, and thereupon deciding that there was "Nothing" right] with England. There is plenty of rottenness in the world if we choose to see it. A' piece of mud held close enough to the eyes will blot out the! sun, That Chinese have erected excellent dwellings, notably in Peking, in which hundreds of foreigners are satisfied to live; that Chinese have} and maintained for} dozens of years such businesses as, the Commercial Press, Wing On, Sincere, Sun Sun, Lao Kai-took, Dah, Luen, Lao Kiu-chwang, Hope' Brothers, Nanyang Tobacco Company, Jand innumerable mills, factories, ship chandiers and provision merchants; that Chinese have maintain fed efficient sanitation and hygiene in several northern cities under the lable guidance of men like Dr. Wu! Lien-teh and his associates; that these things mean little or nothing to "Briton" is obvious, o tie would not bring such a blanket charge Jagainst the entire Chinese people, But I am not anxious to draw {the resentment of "Briton" upon me in my humble efforts to mitigate some of the current and ill-founded animosity towards all things Chin-Jose. I should be only too glad if, what I mention would result in his desire to try to appreciate the: [Chinese point of view, the obstacles: which have confronted them, and their groping attempts to accommoda Jate themselves to modern economic! and industrial laws, systems and conditions to which they were strangers for a for longer period than the West.
To hold such views as "Briton's" in specific instances ig not censure able; st is to be commended a3 an honest conformity with the eriterfons of progress. But to magnify them into a sweeping conviction is dangerous." Of this danger 1 will quote the author of a recent article the "Saturday Evening Post"?—
Ee Ties. well started, find your. Contempt or a aonae of people Seperlority' or dark anger, Took to cif, for on that tide of yet, To condemn Chinese has, become comin. "fashionable" in Shanghai; to cherish contempt for China "as a whole" is also fashionable; one. is Jexpected to agree, to various trite Jeharges that the "Chinese are this that and the other thing"; One expected to. mumble approval and supply farther anecdotes to. Keep conformity with the trend of con-
If England could have been hated for a century "on a basis mostly of lies" by Europeans and others who could not plead ignorance of English social and political history, how much easier is it for China to be hated on the same basi of "lies", when most foreigners know infinitely lees about this country than they did about England.
Tam, ete, 0. D. Shanghai, Dee. 7, 1297,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.