To the Editor of the Su—t warn Mr. H, L. Cave dish not ta throw the first stone earnest? The merey of God is in-Gite: the power of repentance is equal to all miracles, Why" then should we despair of our fate?
Tam, ete, fon the sin ing Chinese nation, Such condenination should come only from one who has never sinned! China is dead, China is Jost beyond all redemption:—such ave the Words of Mr. Cavendish. 1 fam afraid Mr. Cavendish: does not know China: nor does he know God.
What's wrong with China? Wil foreign governments. save oF even help her? The foreign settlements Shanghai have continued enjoy beice amongst all. China's war, Tt looks as if the exe tension of these settlements to cover all of China would save her from fil chaos and disorder! But—is Shanghai such a true paradise for the Chinese people? Is not there such a thing as foreign "tyranny fwd foreign' injustice? Are not the Chinese Koenly alive to the queatjon of sino-foreign inequality, tind from that very question is not trouble sure to arise in the future?
One may say, that compared with the present chaos, the Manchi regime was far better and more freteeful. But what folly to suggest Ab a way to-eave China the return of the Manchu monarchy! The Mancha regime, viewed by us who the midst of fire and water, look. wholesome; but to thoes who lived then, it too was cruel {injustice and unbearable tyranny. Had it been otherwise, there would have been no Revolution of 1911 with its consequent events. The Revolution was the open conflagrae tion caused inevitably by the discontent of the Manchu The open fire may look more dreadful than the smothering flame, hut the two are In realty one and same thing, and it is absurd to'prefer the on to the other. But Mx, Cavendish calls the Revolution of 1911 a suicide. As if the Chinese people had eon so senseless as to start the fire to. burn themselves without being compelled by the force of sheer necessity!
Shanghai, Apeil 3, 1999,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.