To the Editor of the "Norra-Caixa Dairy News"
Sir,—Perhaps you will be good enough to insert this little article in your correspondence column, just to let me voice my individual opinion on the present imbroglio of. Chinese politics.
Every one of us, a native or a foreigner, knows that China is in narrow straits—with a central government no better than a pawn in the hands of a bevy of military dictators, who wage endless internecine wars, purely for selfish ends; who care nothing about the country, as long as they reign safely in their several principalities, rolling in wealth, feted by @ circle of obsequious followers, petted by a harem of doll-like concubines, and guarded by an iron wall of poorly-clad, ill-mannered, but voracious and blood-thirsty soldiers who, because their pay is constantly in arrears, snatch what they can from peaceful and unoffending citizens, who find life already to hard at the present-day cost-of living: and with the country's finance on the verge of bankruptcy; buried in heavy foreign debts; with plenty of resources waiting to be opened, but no one and no means to open; always at the end of the rope when the festivals and new years are terribly near, and then at the eleventh hour go and lie prostrate at the feet of the ever-remembered Goddess of Mercy, the Customs and Salt Surplus, and make all the world begin to wonder how China manages to come out through her financial storm smiling and undisturbed.
China, however, it seems to me has a great future in store for her despite her present troubles, which can only- be looked upon as the natural phenomena of a transitional stage in a country's political evolution. But her troubks must be remedied at once, lest these
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