The contention that the boycott can be tackled, adequately, by suppressing illegal manifestation it whenever they appear. a1 opportunity to cope with' them given, seems to lack cogency. With the. Chinese General Chamber Commerce, in sits efforts-to deal with the users of fraudulent trade there will be every sym-path:
This does not preclude of most emphatic condemnation of the Chamber's airy. flirtation with the terrorist fanatics. 'Those. young hotheads may be few and unin portant, but apparent encouragement of them by what should bea responsible body of citizens is nothing' short of am offence against the whole community. The comforting theory that a "peaceful" or "volun ary" boycott "can. be allowed to develop without danger is based on the grossest.fallacye A' boycott—fas, "experience shows—inevitably damages the people who use it. Tt feannot be maintained without the' fcltimate" application of methods: cading to violence on one side oF the other." As has already happen Shanghai, it lends. itself to
ere Gthee than those against which aft, it involves damage to inter-net ebjectonable forms, of
{fis ostensibly aimed. Above all, when it comes to its inevitable con: lusian, after much suffering and misery, it leaves behind bitter feelings the traces of which it. takes: many years to efface. It is not enough to rely on the authorities for dealing with the boycott. move-tment.. Chinese and foreigners who Ihave the welfare of this country, at heart ought to do everything to discourage even the ition sealled peaceful Tines. It is mere of
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