Within ree: nt years, I have personally known two Chinese embryonic John Hampdens, who have tried unsuccessfully to lift the banner of revolt against these close and Powerful corporations of village life, cabals of rascally every pie and who fleece the people with most Ingenious rapacity. Tu the one case, he was unanimously invited by a group of villages to. fight their common enemies in the Aston court, where the verdict was, of course, a foregone conclusion. He appealed and went. to Tientsin, where the suit was retried before the Provincial authorities.
Though there was ample evidence to ensure a smashing verdict for the Prosecution in any other country, Where the scales of° justice are not weighted, the defendants were again able to elude conviction by. the sim-lo expedient of securing the intervention of a powerful official high up in the service of the State. His name wild horses will not drag fron In consequence my friend returned home 2 sadder, "wiser and much poorer man, as his sponsors failed constribuic their share the heavy bill and he is now. burdened with a crushing debt.
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