To the Editor of the "NontH-Curva Dau News."
Sm—In Saturday's issue I read Dr. Hu Shih' letter of advice to Nanking, and. in to-day's issue T read letters from ""A Son of China and from "F.D.Z,," all of which are temperately-worded and expre views of the politico. tion in China that very ves to my mind, as of people of China.
It chanced also that I was reading in a book of Essays by the late G. WE. Russell. From one on Matthew Arnold I quote a passage which may be taken to give.a view of sixty years:
of a similar type.
"In those days we were Radicals of a utilitarian type. We believed tremendously in Acts of Parliament, and were persuade? that, if only we could disestablish churches and extend the suffrage and overset the monarchy, we should preci Millenniom. Tt did us. gre hough it irritated us, to be temin ced that the most degraded mise: the darkest ignorance, the owes and life, may ce-exist with a system of government, and that the li tical machinery with which we wished to be endlessly tinkering, only valeable so far as it tended to make life brighter, happier, and more humane.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.