To the Editor of the "Nowri-CHINA Daty News."
Sig—I read with great interest the letter of Mr. F. D. Z. in your issue of the Ist instant. "All foreigners who have the interests of China in view will agree with him and share this regret at the at sence of public opinion in the case of the military barons who are destroying this country.
Z. is a keen observer and for this reason T shall be glad if he can explain to us an interesting psychological fact. At the same time as there is an absence of public opinion in China which in any sense influences the sections of the predatory militarist and other Chinese officials who are sucking the life blood of the nation, there is a strong and growing and very veral public opinion against foreigners. This opinion exists against the very folk who are helping China in opening hospitals and schools, building roads, contributing in large amounts to relieve ferine and suffering and who ave remitting the Boxer Indemn ners are tone and all throughout the country working in Chinese interests and proportionately vastly in excess of anything the Chinese for their own poor suffering fellow countrymen. Again T ask what is the reason? to me it ix absolutely inexplicable, except on one ground.
One suggestion this, namely, the bullying a abusing of sis a han less sport. The Chinese do it with impunity because foreigners a offering and make all kinds excuses for the Chinese. On the other hand, any opposit any military oF instant veteibution, Ina fear explains the" situa though this is nominally a Republic, where all men are supposed tw have equal rights.
When Wu Pei-fu was the Kreat warlord, the people—one and all—Rrovelled in the dust. before him, Dut ax soon ax he had fallen, wer ready to jump all over him, ax witness their action in Wuhan. Chinese reformers acorn Toud and clay and patriotic when they can xo without any possible danger to their pers property, but fare allen and votiving when @ con-tray situation arises.
Tam, ote Ym Kaling, Jan, 10, 1925.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.