But the old idea thi Chinese officials, many of whom are Just the old mandarins dressed. in frock coats. It is yet inconceivable, to them that if they want anything belonging to one of the people they cannot just stretch out their hands and take it. Hence the Chungshan road in Nanking, and the Kuling estate, and Butterfield Swire's godown in Hankow, and the inheritance left by Sheng Kung-pao and, more recently, the house of the late Kang Vu-wei on the West Lake. The officials who want these things honestly believe thay the mere fact that they are officials gives them the right to take possession of them. The people have still no rights. One. wonders why intelligent Chinese of Frou A Cosnisroxsexr today do not see that when Butterfield & Swire oppose the oficial confiscation of their property they really fighting for the people's lits. If a foreigner's land must] not be forcibly taken from him then the land belonging to a Chinese must not be taken either. Foreignfers in China do not want special privileges. When Chinese law and its administration are good enough for the Chinese they will be amply good enough for us. But meantime it is not good enough and, if the Chinese were wise, they would support foreign nations in their contention that the law should be out-ide polities and above politicians.
is all that extraterritoriality ives the foreigner now and it should be the heritage of every. man, woman and child born in. China. The property of the poorest, coolie should be as inviolate as that. of the President of the Republic.
China's laws were considered very good laws by the Chinese. They included the bamboo, the cangue, trial by torture and the slicing pro: joes, But no one, except foreignfers, protested against them. [Wang is trying to turn the hands of the clock backward, but though he may set the Chinese clock back old Time will not move back for him.
Surely it is an argument pour tire that Chinese residents in foreign countries do nog ask for special privileges. If they were offered extraterritorial rights, they would feet the fright of their lives, "Then their lives and property would be at. the merey of their home government Whereas, as things are now, not the King of England nor the government of Holland, could confiscate the property of the meanest Chinese within their colonies. When for. feigners in China are as well protected as Chinese abroad there will be little opposition to the abolition of the "unequal treaties."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.