There is nothing more stunulating than bring thrown ypo. your own resources. Probably the majority of us in Ohina, being black sheep, have an individual appreciation of this truth. Nothing would be of more service at this juncture in Chinese affairs than a declaration by the Powers fo the effect that, instead of plaving petty interests they would leave the adjustment of our relations witn the Chinese to the Diplomatic Body under the guidance of China residents, giving no more support than existing treaties and existing legitimate claims entitled us to.
Nothing could be more stimulating than the clearly assigned task of directing the Diplomatic Body in the interest of foreign residents in China and in the ce-ordinated interest of China, at. large. Our first job would,' course, be to notify Chinese official dam at large that we were through with this hocus-poons of recognizing a Government that could not and would not function. Our second would be to notify each and every official who hiad the temerity to assume an official title that we should expect him to assume the functions that go with the title or sever all relations, official, commercial and fiaancial—outlaw him in other words, if he did not do his work.
We should not interfere with Chinese affairs, but: whenever a Governmental department whose revenues were pledged as security for a loan failed to pay we should insist upon foreclosure and should occupy that department by force or otherwise and administer it until it did pay or went out of existence.
We should not pursue a gunboat policy, but whenever a Tuchun like Ts'ai Cheng-hsun tried to make face with his miserable subjects by pretending that he had prohibited the navigation of provincial waters by foreign gunboats, we should send a score of gunboats up to his capital with an intimation that since he was disposed to violate treaties it was his moving day.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.