The Archive · 1936

Some Metaphors

To the Editor of the foun-Cinixa Dany News"

Sin—1 wish to acknowledge appreciation of your to-day"s Leader which oulspokenly and significantly: mirrors the helpless position of the local Voter, exercise his powerful combine of local Taipans.

Your Leader, being so bluntly put a 'Challenge' and in the nature, 0 10, speak, of an insult added 10 injury': "propping up the captive, bound hand "and foot, to be jeered at for jot showing fight" demands adequate answer from the "small man," and being one permit me te. speak as bluntly, 'The "small man" is neither small in spiritual nor mental stature of qualities, but, the "cards" are too heavily "stacked" against him; end sitting down to a "game" In which he must put up' as a "stake" his and his family's livelihood for the sake of "proving" to the world outside that Shanghai is not as "black as painted," is a game not worth the candle."

In order to achieve any real re-forme or impeovenients he must frst

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