Sin,—The last several issues of your Anxiously I awaited your daily Paper to arrive here so that my fa might become known. Had I made fortune—or must I blow my brains out? Tremblingly I scanned your columns, but alas! no mention could I find of winning sweepstake num. esteemed journal read like chapters bers. of a book on "Peace Exploration."
1 was at a Joss to understand this One can hardly, I believe, read througis Journalistic shortcoming, until, per-Your leaders on "Schwaermere!" and Using your correspondence eciumns, "Saving Faces" without thinking the with eyes that were moist with question of war as commented in the correspondence columns, or the tears 0: dwappointment, I alighted speeches and sermons on armistice as upon an effusion by one' styling him~ reported in the news columns, or the self "Oracabessa". (Surely not the facts and events as described through ame of a gee-gee?). There I learnt despatches from the Disarmament that it is not the policy of your Conference, the Naval Conference, sanctimonious journal to publish the the Manchurian Provinces, and the numbers which draw dogs, ponies, European countries—all of which cats or other" poor animals. that seem to expose nothing of interna-wicked man utilizes "for his vile tional and social assurance. sport.
While even a professor of interna-How this refrainment of yours, ional law in fair, England argues for after the Race is over, can possibly the doctrine that "necessity knows no sist in suppressing ' that dreadful law," it is, indeed, premature to say gambling, is beyond my powers of that "war is a thing of the past."
Feasoning. Were you to refuse to pledge unconditionally—without ways advertise or mention the racing, in and means of fulfilment, that "we" any shape or form, before' the shall make war impossible to rise dreadful sport was ' staged, that may be good in politics, but rediculeas to all the militarists and would surely be more in keeping their allies on earth. The world with your apparent determination to situation as it remains is clearly bel-stamp out this evil. I notice with ligerent, and war—like events recur horror that your advertising columns now as and in spite of the con-contain lists of lucky sweepstake sequences of the so-called war to end numbers promoted by various war.
Shanghai Clubs. But then 1 suppose If statesmen of the nations dare not even poor editors have to live, and to come together and discuss openly. convictions can momentarily be for= all the remote and immediate causes gotten when there is any monetary of war, there can be no solutions for inducement! them to apply on the problems of As I previously remarked, the duty. peace. One, therefore, who now at-of a newspaper is 10 serve every tempts any compromise ey expect insection of the community, be he ternational trade development is but saint oF sinner, There is a lot blowing a bubble which cannot long your Journal that "fils me with last. Let there be people many and nausea, Pages and pages of reli-earnest enough to urge for a world congress of free discussion on war gious cant from reverend gentlemen and peace by responsible men and for instance. If T don't want to read women of the nations as a first and it T skip it, Surely the anti-gamblthe immediate step toward intern: ing section of your readers (which 1 tional ce-operation for peace. are few) could just as easily avoid letting their eyes rest on any Usane ty. news connected with sport?
Shanghai, Nov. 16 Generally speaking, I don't sup pose editors are in favour. of. mura ders, or have committed any worth
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