Editor of the Normw-Ciwa Datey News"
Sin—In all politeness may one quire why Mu. H. H. Siao himself Mngers In foreign' areas while the whole vast "continent" of China awaits him?
"Are there no "yellow" armies to be faced anywhero—despair, destruc tion and ravage (and mismanagement) to repair—"out there"?
May one ask, gently, of Mu.
Jexaetly what engendered those "kicks fand slaps" which rankle so deeply within his bosom—is it but some secret thorne at remembrance of those indignities. cruelties and hardships which his country inflicted upon the Jemissaries ut trade and culture who feame from the West to open relations With the fur Kingdom, and to whom hardship and opposition came as ribbon to the lance?'
These little Islands of habitation a vast ocean of troublous waters— why should they become such a bone of jealous contention? And what need of them when Mu. Sao at the head.ot his Crusaders has turned back the sea and revealed the smile jing hills and valleys of peace, prosperity, justice and contentment?
Has' Mu. Suiso" never paused to consider the multitudes of his countrymen who dwell in peace,—and wade and prosper under foreign flags? Docs he ever pause to consider what the feelings of those fellow countrymen of his would be were any specifically audited account rendered them of the vast sums which they contribute to the many of China's "causes"?
Tam afraid that Me. Suao himself but furnishes a regrettable and unhappy confirmation of our worst The West does not look for gratltude—it asks but a simple recognition of its endeavours, and a straight. forward acceptance "of ils honest intent.
Aw Txeumase Rostanteiss Wrnour Shanghai, Jan. 1.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.