To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuixa Dairy News."
Sir,—As one of the foreigners resident in this city, and as one who for years has had more than a passing acquaintance with its life and thought, I desire through the medium of your paper, to refer to the Wanhsien articles, which have appeared from time to time in your columns.
Whilst there is much with which we might all agree, one cannot but feel that they are on the whole "spur of the moment" articles, containing material which could only have reached your correspondent through very indirect channels, To write on the crest of a rumour wave may furnish sensational material, but its method has the tendency to distort the bara facts, and to ignore the underlying principles of action.
If there is one land under the sun where things are not always what they seem, that land is China.
We are all sorely grieved at the way the Chinese are doing things—to our minds they appear crude and childish—but we mut% remember that we are in'inland China, where men have the same feelings and aspirations as ourselves, whilst lacking the organized machinery of government afforded to us in the solution of similar problems.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.