The argument that because the Chinese enjoy no protection, no liberty, no justice, no anything, that we also should throw away our rights and suffer with them is queer reasoning. If a man is, drowning should we jump in and drown with him or try to throw him a line? The average Chinese of our acquaintance is so plagued by bodily vermin that he firmly believes they are as inseparable from him as perspiration. Should we allow ourselves to become so infested in order to sympathize with him or should we demonstra ate to him that care and vigilance will bring him relief?
It might be remarked also that there are few Chinese indeed who would appreciate or be moved by any such demonstration. If they could be convinced that we have Governments both able and willing to give.us the rights and blessings that we are said to enjoy at Home, they would put us down as hopeless nuts if we announced our voluntary renunciation of the same: 2 We get utterly weary of reminding such folks as the editor of the "Recorder" of the reason why millions of Chinese have crowded into such foreign cities as Shanghai and Tientsin. It is solely because Armed Force guarantees them liberty, justice and happiness. These Chinese present to the psychologist a remarkable problem. They are, ardent for their stricken country except when it comes to returning to its bosom, and while enjoying to the full the blessings of foreign protection they are the loudest yowlers against foreign aggression.. That intelligent and enlightened foreigners should he carried away by the meaningles® rant of these ex-patriotes is a regrettable but undeniable fact.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.