To the Editor of the form-Cunxa Day News"
Si—Anything that will tend to rickshaw cool and it Is to put forward a suggestion, which, though no doubt Jo already known to most of Jyour readers, has in this case the value of already having been tried and tested, I can porhups best illustrate my point by giving the circumstances fof the case referred to.
Some years ago when I was in Peking, my rickshaw colle said that he wished to buy his own rickshaw but that he was unable to do so owing to want of capital, and he could only Borrow money at a very exorbitant rate, namely some three or four per cent, per month, He asked me it 1 would advance the money, and he would repay me each month the amount he would have to pay other-Wise as rental for the rickshaw. I agreed to this, and in the course of Some eight months he was the owner of the rickshaw and from a bare existence he was lifted to a state of My suggestion is that some sort of scheme might be devised whereby the lekshaw men may become the owners of their rickshaws, This need not be purely a matter of charity but some-Tines of a Building So-
Such a scheme, of course, could not be put forward without due consideration to the many details involved and the diMculties that have to be surmounted, but I think it is worthy consideration and hope that something will be done on these lines. Swattow.
Kaifeng, Ho, Apr. 1.
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