To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cinwa Datty News"
Sin—I hope you will permit _me space, at least in self-defence, and to give me opportunity to put in my contribution to the public teller, to write a9 follows: for one, and there are others, stand for municipal retrenchment where possible, in' favour of the public purse, which also means my own Pocket.' But T cannot see why should be called a "nincompoop" because of it?
'Or If one who favours economy Is deserving of that picturesque so-briquer, what brether might applied' to a once who disfavour economy?
Now skipping the rest and coming te the point, of economy, T hold that Ite every possibility has not yet been fully Investigated. "And i might suggest that at the next Ratepayer's Meeting It be moved that a Commission of Inquiry: make—with the Mayor's permission,—a study of the excellent aystem by which the thorities of the Greater Shanghai Is now doing so much with so little, and showing such wonderful results; and tls at remuneration: more conformalive to. the economic level of the Oriental majority of the Settlement, piece of economic justice commonly Conanennce wir Sexse, Shanghai, Nov. 5, Reeks v. Prevot Editor of the "Nonrit-Cuawa Dany News"
Si—I have no intention of intrude ing myself unduly upon your readers but Mr. Pnzvor's latest exhibition of muddleheadedness under the guise of his preaching crusade' deserves tention. At the risk of being terribly boring' shall attempt an analysis of He opens by complaining of my. inti, SAMH of 8 hain 2 Mees Peead NE plan euch one ae hee Iga Mads Ao arn apt stod neb als ete tale Uy ty" aust (Sate ata tt dace I testing" ling wee Det a He next goes on to say that the Council "is not altogether lon which with five hundred or even a'thousand "representatives" can be "altogether Fopresentative" of fifty million souls. Does he comment that the House of Commons or the Houses of Congress to which have just been elected in the States an overwhelming majority of one party to which party only 244 Voles out of 4 have been thrown is Not representative, - Does he not realize that Shanghai is hide bound by a set of regulations that are more imcult to alter than the terms of the constitution of the United States and Why should he complain, inaccurately, that Tam "bolitting his efforts secure for Shanghai what he considers a more representative government" Will he be precise and say in' what way "he would have the system altered to secure "the rights. of the small man." It he would resume that every foreigner whether possessed of a slake-or not in. this International Settlement should have vote then the logical thing 1s that every Chinese should have a vole, And if he does is his method of ep: Proach to the problem a fair one?
He next goos on to say: person and my ideas and are two very different thin means by that that Y might attack his. opinions without attacking his person, well and good, but if he means that hho can disassociate his {deas from himself then it Isa startling proposition, Unless of course he gives expression to things which he. has heard without ever giving thought to them, T would therefore commend to Ini these lines of Locke:
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