To the Editor of the "Nowru-Cuixa Daty News."
Sir,—Next Friday is the "Day of National Shame," and at the Y.M.C.A. on Sunday I learned that this week is being kept as "Civic Week," when the duties of citizenship will be emphasized. The idea of inducing the Chinese populace to take an intelligent interest in polities is excellent: but is it not unfortunate that the notion should be introduced that to be a good citizen one must be a good hater of foreigners? At the Washington Conference Japan made repo ions for her former blunders, and the only decent thing for Chinese Christians would be to "clean the ce. slate,'
ind_to "let, bygones be bygones.'
Japan has been very patient:
for instance, over the 43 attack on an Upper Yangtze Japan.
steamer several months ago the Japanese officers taken captive then are still not released, Various "patriotic" cartoons are exhibited atthe YMCA. One represents Chinese sluggering under an enormous burden, the greater part of which is marked as the foreign debt of $1,269,000,000, while a much smaller part is marked as the domestic debt of $257,- $00,000. "Te appears "to me. that this cartoon is simply anti-foreiga land nothing else: it makes me won Ger for what sort of Christianity the YMCA. stands, As a, matter fact, the foreign debt would have been enormously greater. i appeals. of dishonest Chinese facials had not been. refused by foreign financiers—in. the interests of China. And the reason why the domestic debt is 20 small is part because Chinese do not trust their ind_partly because, instead of asking for loans, the various tuchuns, nabobs, and officials of various kinds' make illegal and. tyrannical requisitions and exactions, or allow their licenced troops to loot the: populace.
The state of China must be discouraging to patriotic Chinese; but the Y.M.C.A. will not improve foreign spirit. aim, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.