Now comes what Mr. Tartais ard Mr. Chapeaux call the most fan-taste part of my programme—the progressive suppression of those Email blocks of Chinese land by a special tax on thee native holdings. On this point T have been thoroughly misunderstood. I am not looking: fora direst source of increasing the Municipal budget, but only for means of eliminating one of the principal obstacles to the developnent of sanitary conditions in the Concession, I um considering the abandonment by the Municipality of ax returns and then turning them lover to the Chinese authorities to obtain the desired results, and have reason to. think—having ' discussed this question with prominzt Chin. ese—that on this basis" thorough understanding can be reached. And Tam not formulating this suggestion "seven or eight years" after others have proposed it, as T seem to be the very first one to do so. that the agreements necessary' with the Whangpoo Conservancy Board Jand certain owners of river rights, jara signed? Leaving aside techni-[cal matters—a lawyer and Semi-Administrator would be of value in Therefore viewed by an impartial eye my programme 3s not so. vapid End superfluous as Mr. Tartois and:
their eriticiam-—whieh aw forced Chapeaax make & appear "in the Council if only to prepare ad-tee develop" riy ie "onthe public, In promising to ive all my ministrative and—judicial briefs, /attention to the principles T ad-thus helping to forward speedy vocate, 1 do not intend to bluft—and perpetrate a gasconnade—though I struction thers are unr and yet others will boldu Pac, in so far as it is realizable, decided authority.
To sum up, the nothing lacking in. psychological knowles 'My competitors were decidedly opened according to their necessity. lacking. in knowledge critics would am not honk big Seog origin, My have, taken another For sine yeary yet it will only be|soing Council' of which we are when they thought that they put|view of matters had I promised to Lone the estate foo bar At the present_moment, in the me in an awleward: position factor work for an inerenso. in, salaries, Init down, light of actual: Chinese: troubles. it he electors by pretending to defend which for some reason had so Tong Having served on the Council for seems a favourable occasion t0 ber, the French Tramway Company been delayed and only came on the port five, four and 16 years respectively, ye have, ourselves, ne programme.|the""Shanghal Municipal Counel,[vo long since Mr. Tartals took for fvcven te demand, tu accord wit which I have not attacked. Tt is not fre" of section. eidencet Means ut ans Hf we ae cloted, Will bs hae one "ahewld "be [lis electoral wa ery "Dover with must knew better than anyone clse|' continue working in the same] established around the French and monopolies"—so, aceyrding to him, was in good company.
I will finish now, by asking, a how the Municipality is tied to the roirit as heretofore and to the best International Settlements, to ensure Tramway Com This camps advantage of the Concession.
11 is thus that we can leave it to efficaciously their protection. In a. measure this zone does exist:
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