"1 also said, As for confiscating the large firms doing business here, we would first need to inquire how Sincere and Wing On dispose of their stock and what profits they make, Te would be easy to conficate their business and distribute the capital, Dut that divided amenest the' population of Canton would give but @ small sum to each individual and a large number of people employed by these firms would be rendered destitute. What sense would there be in that? have heard that in the early days of. the revolution in Russia you seized the factories and turned {them over to the workmen hoping to get increated production. But toon aw the workers were movie proprietors they ceased to do.any Work and, by-and-bye, you had. put overseers into the factories and these men coerced the seorkers much more severely than did the former employers. T therefore donot see that confiscating these large businesses is going to help the people that it is a. sound financial Scheme. Our attitude to your proposals is not whether we dare do not but whether we should do it oF not. If it is right we should do it no matter how difficult it might be and if it is not right we hould not do it even if i swore The standing committee of Anti-Japanese Boycott Society held its second meeting here yesterday and adopted the following regula-
1, Shops shall register their stock of goods and mecatime 'a fine of GO per cent., ad valorem shall be imposed on these goods.
'2. Unregistered Japanese goods shall be confiscated.
'3. Fines of 90 per cent. and 150 per cent, ad valorem shall be imposed on the ordinary commodities and luxurious articles, respectively, of Japanese origin, which were registered after the assigned dates.
Those who have purchased Japanese goods shall be put into, wooden cage and exposed street and the goods purchased shall be seized—Toho,
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