"With reference to the points raised in your recent proclamation the effect that municipal taxes ill be collected on an equal basis from both foreigners and Chinese! alike, we desire to ask you to con-idea' if you have given the Chinese ratepayers the privilege of enjoying equal tights of representation and equal privileges on the Council. We! have long awakened from our dreams! Jof the past few decades and we have begun to realize the danger in which Jour country is submerged. We have [gone far forward in our understand ing of nationalism. We have de-Jcided unanimously, therefore, at]
2 That all legal schools should! be requested to organize lecture] gr to carry on propagand:
That two representatives! should be set to make arrangements whereby the Chinese Ratepayers' Association and the Shanghai Students' Union could co-opera ate in conducting a campaign against the Shanghai Municipal)
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