Our hope is that all our friends Will realize that foreign—textiles such og woollens, serges and. inported silk are the weapons imperinlistic countries use in their financial encroachment on our national life. These ave powerful enough to endanger the very existence of our natural silk trade and suck the blood and marrow of our people. We must all determine to put a st to this and the best means of doing.
is to restore our historical pre-eminence in the silk trade to its rightful position, We should act according to the dictates of conscience and enthusiastically promote the trade in native goods so as to stop tit leakage of our profits to foreign lands. Then, when the rearing of silkworms and the manufacture of silk have reg former prosperity, not only will hundreds of thousands of workmen find profitable employment but the country's finances will respond to the stimulus. The result will not only be profitable to us, who are engaged in the trade, but will re-donnd to the honour of our country; we beg all our countrymen to rally to our help and for this reason publish this announcerient.""
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.