That the inculcation of this pernicious doctrine earvies its own Dunishment with it goes without saying, for unless the Foreign Powers show a little more vivility in the near future than they have done in the immediate past, the time will come when China will control its own' Customs service; when this day comes students of the next generation may be taught the lesson of the railways. We do not know whether the South Manchurian railway makes a profit of '$50,000,000 annually, but if they: do the reason is no farther to seek than the nearest railroad under Chinese control. It is solely because St is under foreign management, and joy riding concubines and militarists have to pay for the use of it; if every Chinese soldier carried over China's railroads their fare, Chinese railways would show a profit too, The Last Bulwark The customs service is the last remaining financial bulwark China and no one needs telling what would happen to this service were it placed entirely under Chinese control, or the real fight ing that would ensue among the militarists for its revenues while they lasted. But so young China is being taught today, and we suppose will continue to be taught while the present ideas remain, or until foreign idealists awake' to the fact that no effort for the up-China is appreciated, and governments realize that neither Feason nor gratitude find any place in the composition of China's official aumd, 'The greater harm is not done' to foreigners, it is to the Chinese themselves that the damage will accrue, for in a world: led by Peaceful ideals there will be no place in the future for the pabulum of the rising generati to be based on the hatred of all abut themselves, they can other than reap the bitter harvest of such when the seed reaches maturity.
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