There is something greater than gambling at stake. That "something" is just the International Settlement of Shanghai and its clean foreign amenities, Surely a second thought would show that this sudden solicitude of the Nationalists for the workman, the mill-hand and the other small Chinese fry is all bunkum, Of the Nationalist Government obceted to gambling on moral grounds id,"in, a straightforward marine, asked the Settlement authorities to keep the Chinese people away from the so-called gambling: centres, then the authorities would aid. thea, always provided, of course, that the Chinese Government kept' the Chinese people away from all gambling centres throughout the length and Breadth of Chin But it is ridiculous t> suppose that the Nationalists care a button poorer class of Chinese, former can wring little or nothing from the Intter: so why should they worry about them? With the rich Chinese and the shapkkeopers it is different. They can at-ways be made to pay. And then there is always kidnapping.
The present agitation is Tenge thrown down by the Chinese Government (not diveetly, of course) fo the Settlement and "Consular Authorities, The Nationalists chal-Jonge the Settlement authorities to ry to Keep them (Nationalists) from having an influential say in. what Shall or shall not he done in the Settlement. That is. the situation a nut-shall, The First Point Ail the' statements and artful pro-Payanda emitted by Mx. Wuntze King; Dr. C. T, Wang and Mr. Yul Ya-ching prove my contention, as anyone can see by carefully reading the utterances and writings of the above-mentioned officials. Further proof is given by the "refusal" of the Chinese newspapers to print greyhound advertisements. Does any thinking person suppose that the Chinese newspapers hold such high moral opinions that they sacrifice revenue? The "refusal of tthe Chinese newspapers is Government inspired." The Chinese are going to do all in their power to force the foreign authorities altogether to close or cripple the dog-acting courses. They will then have won their first point.
IE the Settlement authorities give way in this matter. then it will be the beginning of the end. The Chinese will have had further proof that they have only to shout and scream long and loud enough to force the foreigner tremblingly to give way, After securing the closing of the "dogs," the Settlement cinemas will receive attention and then the cabarets, Always and_only in the Settlement mark you. Everything in Chinese territory is immacilatéy turally! 'Then, having stampeded the Settlement' authorities and got then "on the run," the Chinese wi "demand" the closing of all foreign tanks on the ground that there are out foreign-style Chinese banks Jeonduet the trade of the district that, anyhow, foreign banks are an infringement of China's sovereign ights and should be "abolished."
Some people may think that Iam riding away into the realms of the ridiculous. To those people I would reply. "Go on in your own slack way, believing that matters will turn out not so badly after all; but do not complain later when you have lost your job; when you are stoned in the streets by the Chinese as a thing of contempt and when the Chinase-controlled policeman pokes you with his baton to make fun for the jeering Chinese riff-raff who, in accordance with the Three ciples, will: be the masters of this Settlement."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.