To the Editor of the "Norri-Cuina Dat News"
Sm—May I comment on your leaderette to-day by means of an al-Jegory? Many years ago a shop-keeper owing to great depression in his line of business got into debt and his bankers having no great faith in his trade refused him further assistance.
Admittedly he was in a very bad way. However, he put his case before very wealthy man who already had an interest in the shop and who be-Heving in the ultimate recovery of the business, agreed to loan him the. necessary money on certain terms, 'Very soon after things began to Improve, the money was repaid and with varying' success a moderately assured future became probable.
keeper died and his the course of, "dine, the, shop. the business but on looking into things discovered that a very large proportion of the profits was going fo the man who had years ago assisted their father, by reason of the {fact that he was the general manager: and was charging what he liked in that capacity.
Would the world consider the! family ungrateful or ungracious when they refused to be this man's pawns In Shanghai, Oct. 26.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.