To the Baitor of the "Nowri-Cuixa Dany News'
Sin—Possibly the Shanghai Monday has something to do with it, but fait miserably to follow CG's defence of the "look see" rachel. The [worthy gentleman that he describes, olling in easy chairs and surrounded lay cocktails and fat cigars, would: certainly find it more in keeping with tke laws of humaneness to work off sore of his seemingly abundant riches on some of the many deserving focal charities than in the upkeep and Jadvancement of a petty blackmailing racket which can do the city's reptration little good.
To give away ten cents daily is on: thought, and avery" commendable Jone; but to be forced to hand over money in order to preserve one's property from wilful damage is another fand vastly different thought. 'These two thoughts, unlike the cocktails in which Ube above worthy. gentleman wallows, do not mix, fortunately; one might otherwise be' confronted with the disturbing suspicion that the next Jdrive for funds may be for the pur-loose of providing our armed robbers frith bigger and better pistols,"
[Shanghai, Dec. 18.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.