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SALT, TARIFF, MALTREAT- MENT.
"The following is the second in- stalment of an article, written by Mr. Rodney Gilbert, culled from the "N. C. Daily News":-
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The Tariff Commission. the particular business of a few Again It looks at this writing institutions in the immediata as though the Tarif Conference vicinity of the city whose heads would close within a few days for postpone the inevitable end by the so-called summer recess with submitting meekly to all the cons cut even putting into force the temptuous and humiliating terms customs surtaxes provided, for at imposed upon them by Borodin's Washington in 1922. Highly agents... Wherever the mission- placed representatives of all the aries in Kangtung or Kuangsi. their self- great Powers have spent just attempt to maintain eight months in Peking, wasting respect or insist upon some semi- time which would have been pro-blance of their rights they are fitably used elsewhere, gaining trented still more abomitably and the worst possible impressiohs of have, as we all know, been forced China under the most irritating in some cases to abandon their Not a Local Problem.
circumstances. Thoir one out-churches, schools and hospitals Peking, June 19 standing impression undoubtedly while their converts have been This Salt situation moreover, is that China has amply de- subject to persecution. a local monstrated that she is not quali cannot possibly remain
It is amply evident to all na problem because, to set it right, fled to execute a treaty and will tionalities new that Canton'a at the Powers cannot simply come continue to be incapable of fulfill-titude is not only anti-British but down upon General CWu with ing any pledges which an admin- anti-foreign and it is it last plain. threats and a show of force andistration in Peking might lightly to the vast majority of missions insist that he yield up the Ch'ang-make for a long time to come. aries that in adopting the atti Lu salt revenues so that China's In 1922, at Washington, the tude towards foreigners which is foreign obligations may be met Powers definitely promised the evinced in their treatment of mis. while his superiora, allies, col- Government of China certain in- sionaries, the Cantonese are only leagues and rivals in other parts cranses of revenue; but those in-putting into force their sovereign of China are permitted to remain creases can only be made available rights as Chinese at large inter-
to the Governments of China, prit them. in undisputed possession
One hears from all quarters similar revenues from similar which at the moment does not sources which they have taken exist, while any new organisation that this realisation has brought for years. Simply because be which claims to be the Govern-about among missionaries u mark- happens to be the last to appro- ment of China will have to prove ed revulsion of feeling against the printe salt funds to his own uses that it exercises real arthority policy of patient conciliation. is no good reason why he alone throughout the country before It They are beginning at last to see should be penalised for it.
can be trusted to sign an agree that if the legitimate sapira- The writer is no apologist for ment which will impose new bur- tions" of the folk whom they ch'u Ye-p'u, but is simply point-dens upon the Chinese people. have so lately beep patting on the of back were fulfilled the mission- ing out what no one with a sense This is no quibble to get out of justice can fail to see-namely keeping a promise. The majority aries would be the first to suffer. that linless China is to be permit of the individual delegates in Their converts would be abused, so sick of ineir ex- they themselves would be subject ted to default in the near future Peking are upon such loans as the Crisp, periences here and would be so to every form of insult and per Anglo-French and Hükyang, the delighted to get away quietly and secution and, within a very short whole international attitude to without further friction that they time, their schools and hospitals wards the sait collectorate and the would cheerfully toss the surtaxes would serve as barracks for every provincial chiefs who use it for into the laps of the militarists irregular horde of armed ruffians their convenience will have to be who now control Peking, and sail that trooped through their com- radically revised and the im- for home while the high authori-murities while horses and mutes munity of the service from local ties were floating loans against would be stabled in their chapels.
revenue and interference insisted upon. not the prospective
Opinion in America. only in Tientsin, but in every sali |equabbling over the spoils, such If no other country is affected district in the country. To try an act would not involve a breach by this change in missionary sen- to bluff or warry Ch'u Yu-p'u inte of trust and a gross imposition timent, America will be. What the the transfer of his receipts to the upon the Chinese people who missionaries find it politic to Peking collesterate, while shying would soon be paying indirectly think about China is reflected bý away from the issue in Man-for more soldiers, more wars, the whole church-going popula churia, Kuangtung. Yunnan, more pillage and rapine.
tion of the country and is impress- Kkingsu, Hppeh and Szechuan, Whatever the inclinations ofed most emphatically upon the would be a bit of timid pettifog- the others might be, however, the Representatives in Congress in kery unworthy of any Occidental Japanese have been steadfastly 90 out of every hundred congres- Power. It would be as small and opposed to any such evasion of sional districts. If the mission- contemptible a performance as big issues, opposed to bribing the aries want to be patient and con- the recent tour of the big cities Chinese to accept the failure of ciliatory with a view to earning that could be safely and comfort the conference without uproar by the good will of an anti-foreign ably reached by rail and steamer giving them the surtaxes. As ir-rabble, America is flooded, from by the Extraterritoriality Com-terviews given out in Tokyo "in-end to end with sentimental slush missioners. After the airing that disate, Japan either wants to go about this country and, if the this Salt situation has had abroad through with the conference, if it Legation Quarter were invaded", the collapse of the service is one takes 10 years, until the Chinese and the Afierican Minister eject- of these things that cannot be are definitely pledged to the con- cd so that some colonel of tifei allowed to slide gracefully into solidation of the unsecured debt,could occupy his quarters, Amer- oblivion. Something has to be the abolition of likin and the de-ican action would probably be done and something is going to be finition' of reasonable conventional confined to a pompous protest. done and nothing will mend the rariffs, or she wants this long- If the missionary cause is seri- situation but such action as will version closed with such a frank ously threatened, however, mas effect a complete and radical statement of the insuperable ob- change of policy in China.
stacles to a tariff treaty of any sort that it will force the world to abandon pretence in relations with China and deal with her on
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tefs go differently, for missičnary opinion can move American gun- boats and bring them into Mvely' action when no other force make them shift their moorings.
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In Peking, as the writer has already said. we feel that this is coming for more reasons than one. The fact that certain Legh-a basis of realities. In view of A change in missionary attitude tions have already tried to focus the.coincidence of other recent action in this Sak situation upon events it would surprise no one Tientsin and limit it to an exer-here to learn within the next few cise of a pressure there, and have days that all the delegations had failed, is a hopeful development of resorted to the latter course, the past few days which cannct yet be enlarged upon without violating condences,
Extrateritoriality.
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The Treatment of Missionaries.
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America to intervene and free a quarter of the world's population from such hideous slavery.
[To be continued.]
therefore means, in the first place. that the tide of unspeakable droo! which has been going home for a year about China's rights and aspirations will be abruptly stem- med in both America and Eng- The highhanded treatment of land, not to mention some of the Then f continental countries. missionaries in South China is conditions do not improve, it will one of the coincident circum- not be long before it will be While we have been watching stances which is going to prompt casually agreed in legislative the Salt service tle itself into a change of foreign policy in cireles in Washington that China Gordian knot with all due China. in the opinion of many is really in a pretty had way: patience. other equally difficult competent observers bere. The that the poor. unhappy Chinese situations have been arising. In few noisy opportunista in every people are suffering most unmer- spits of a determination on the missionary body who saw in the cifully under their crue!, corrupt, part of the Powers to give China's blatant clamour of the Chinese irresponsible and voracious mili- aspiration for the abolition of radicals for their sovereign rightstary tyrants and that it would be extraterritoriality the most len- and their legitimate aspirations genuinely altruistie thing for ient and indulgent consideration an opportunity to curry favour posible, officials and people have with the Chinese and protect mis- made such an amazing show of sionary interests at the cost of all their incapacity to give them- other foreign interests, have been selves peace, comfort or justice discreetly silent for some time, during the past six months that The revulsion of feeling through- ro Power could even consider an out China against Russian in- amendment to the present extra-fluence has discredited the per territorial systern unless it were song with whom they were trying prepared at the same time to to ingratiate themselves and has crder its nationals to leave the reduced the sphere of Bolshevik country. The treatment of mis influence to the areas governed by sionaries in South China and of Canton. Russians in Manchuria have been sufficient in themselves to con- vince the most casual observer that, under Chinese jurisdiction. foreigners in this country would live always in the same state of abject terror and miserysa the patives in so many parts of the | country "of, if they took care of themselves, would be reduced to the states of isolated outlaw com munities, ever on the defensive · against imposition and perseżu. tion, like the Red Spear com- munities in the bandit areas of Shantung and Honan.
The work of the Extraterritor ial Commission is now virtually over and its report, or reporta, will soon be submitted to the foreign Governments and not even a Chinese nationalist can be suf ficiently blind to realities to be lieve that conditions in this cout. try will be glossed over where even their Red Russian sympa thisers are asking for the reinsti- tution of something like a Mixed Court in Manchuria and while no one of their own faction who can escape from Chinese Jurisdiction and get into a concession is open ly living in the territories.com trolled by an anti-Red militarist.
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