The worship of language in ite ed epigrammatic oratory and actected reporte of her ancient sages, usual Jexercized en the moral forces i Ived in the art of governing the committed to writing, heve always bean the educating ideal for En youth, if not always a statement of the practice of Chinese administrators, In fact, talkative sapience in polities, divorced from honest appli jestion in practice, has always been taken for greatness by a pen ply to whom the face of a thing was more iniportant than its principle, land its aesthetic contours more than its petual usefulness. Under tive old orfer, the wondrous literary style If our quarrel were with China, we should have settled it before this, but there can be no settle. ment of our quarrel with Soviet! Russia, For to compromise with Soviet Russia even in one} jota would be to allow the cold damp to enter our foundations and ultimately to bring them down to dust. If the Chinese Government, instead of issuing proclamations designed to separate the nations of the West {vom one another and to bring enmity between Japan and her allies, would drive from this land the Bolsheviks and would punish the Chinese agents who are selling their country to the Bolsheviks, who are accenting from them monthly stipends and huge. expense accounts that chaos may fill this land, who are establishing schools and universities that the youth of the country may be blinded and be turned from the cen-customs and traditions of China -to the experimental, deadly philosophy of Soviet Russia. who are substituting Kor) Marx for Confucius and Venin for Mencius, we should Lave an easy road to an understanding with China, of what they were once supposed to be using on the opium evil and while foreigners are accused of every imaginary crime, the opium trade goes on undeterred and the opium merchants, who are doing their country a thousand times more harm than foreigners have ever done, and who are directly contributing to the killing of thousands, even millions, of their compatriots, are allowed to go scot free, Can it be possible that the students have no knowledge of the opium trade and its evils, of the fact that thousands of cases of opium are being imported into China and sold pub-Tiely in Chinese territory in the port of Shanghai under Chinese official protection?
Or is it] possible that they unscrupulous offi civing little "tips'
"carriage expenses' opium merchants to leses shut and say nothing?" There is every reason to believe that some of the leading agitators hi ye received such "expen: ses" gnd that one. of their. rea-Tsons for contitiuing the present!
According to a statement which we have received, at 4 o'clock 01 Saturday morning, Mr. Lau, secing that his captors had gone to sleep and wore slumbering peacefully, took the chance to slip out of the house.
After escaping, he immediately reported himself to the police, and detectives, accompanied by the Chinese police, went to the house and made a thorough search, The however, had evidently found that their prisoner had escaped, and they tro made a hasty retreat. In the house ware found several loaded pistols and a number of black-mailing letters, all of which were remsvled to the police station.
arrests have been made up to the present.
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