MR. WANG CHING WAI'S OPINIONS ON FINANCE
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Some people nre inclined think that since the Government
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1934.
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LIFE OF ROBERT A TRAGIC WEEK TWENTY
MORRISON
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he was politely jected when Lord Napler-the bar- barian eye' as
YEARS AGO
At Brussels
August 1. Is the best measures for insuring
Desce
German mobilisation was order- The previous evening mobilisation ed a quarter of an hour after the
Is determined to achieve the task right charges granted by the called, a recognition of equality is ordered. At St. Petersburg-French mobilisation.
The following is a brief report on the special or preferential
of national salvation and self-pra. Ministry of Railways for the trans- servation, it should concentrate Rsportation.cf foodstulis and other activities upon the development of agricultural products on the var
lous National /railways:- national resources and engage ac- ively and solely in the work of
reconstruction.
national
They consider it inexpedient for the Governmerit to lighten the people's burden of taxation on the ground that such a policy, will render all projects of national reconstruction Impossible of realisation Such cri ties, however. fall to recognise the fact that the Chinese people are already in great financial distress. and that if no steps be taken im- mediately to aid and protect them. It would be very soon utterly Im possible for them to carry the burden of taxation which is bear- ing so heavily upon them.
As is generally known over 80
"per
cent of the population of China are peasants. The greater portion of the national revenue is obtained from these peasants. "It goes without saying that the va- rious surcharges on the Farm Tax are collected from the peasants. and even the larger portion of the exorbitant levies and miscellaneous taxes is also obtained from these people, who get their living out of the land. A list of the levies and taxes which the Kiangsu, Hupeh. and Cheklang Provincial Govern - ments have decided to abolish wil be published by the Ministry of Finance shortly, when those in- terested can see for themselves the nature of there fllegal levies.
The abolition of these levies and taxes is the only effective measure for lightening the dieavy load car- ried by the peasants and for res- toring their powers of producti-. vity. Once that productive power is stimulated, the strength of the people will be automatically" deve- loped. and the national vitality consoldated.
The Ministry of Finance is not only taking concrete steps for the reduction of the Farm Surtax and the abolition of exorbitant, levies vnd taxes, but is also encouraging the export of agricultural pro- ducts, either by reduction or ex- emption from export duty. measures have been already an. proved by the Executive Yuan, the Central Political Council, and the Legislative Yuan.
These
Moreover, as a' measure" of re- habitating the rural districts and regulating the food supply of the country, the Ministry of Railways. some time ago reduced freight charges for the transportation of foodstuffs on the National rall- ways. Further reductions in freight from foodstuffs and other farm products have recently been de- sided upon by the Ministry, with a view to relieving the economic conditions in the rural districts by, facilitating the rapid transporta- tion of primary products.
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(1). Tientsin-Pukow Railway: Preferential freight charges are granted for the transportation of rice from Pukow to Tientsin or from Peitepu to Tientsin, and of flour from Pengpu to Tien:sin, or from Pukow cr Hauchow to Tungkwan.
from the yamen, which brought on his death.
It is learnt that the previous even- ing in Germany a "state of danger! of war" exists. On receiving this The East India Company's Direc-
news the Tsar cables to the Kaiser. tors: In Londen, though they were
"understand that you are forced glad enough of Morrison's services,
to modilise, but I should like to were not easy about having a missionary on their staff, and they have from you the same guarantee were afraid that his work might that I have given you, that these: that we may continue discussions at any time serve as a pretext measures. do not mean war, and
So
for peace. Our long tried friend- for the suspension of trade. they decided to dismiss him, and wrote out to that effect. But Mor-ship, must with the help of God. succeed in preventing the shed- ding of blood; I confidently walt your reply 2
rison could not be dismissed. The Committee in Canton told him to carry on, and wrote to London to urge that he was indispensable, And," while the matter was still open. Lord Amberst arrived on a special embassy
He to Pekin, needed an interpreter and who was there but Morrison? The en- bassy was a fallure, but Morrison Saw North and Central China be- fore he came back. Again, when the East India Company's charter was withdrawn, Morrison was ap- kao.parently to be left unemployed.
(2) Lung-Hai Railway: Spe- cial freight rates are granted för the
transportation of various foodstuffs such as tour from Tapu to. Ksuchow, or from Kn! reng to Tungkwan. Special rates are also in force for the trans- DI cotton on thu portation western section of the rallway... (3), Peiping-Hankow Railway: Special rates are granted for the
northward transportation · wheat and beans, of rice from Chengchow to Tungkwan. and flour, of barley,
and lang from Sinslang or Shaho to
• Pelping. A 15 per cent. discount Is allowed for the transportation wheat flour, as stipulated in the 33rd table of special rates.
But that simply could not be. Lord Napier came out, and read the King's commission, appointing him Secretary and Interpreter, with a vice-consul's coat, buttons and alll-
Great Fire of 1822
Let me describe one of those scenes in which he played a part.
Rail- (4). Klaochow-Tsinan "way: Special rates are provided for the transportation of wheat
· black · dates. Gative products and peas. Special rates are also is a. November day in 1822, and granted for the transportation of flour from Tsinan to Tsing-consume tao.
(5) Hunan-Hupeh Railway- Special rates are granted for the transportation at rice along the entire railway.
The war minister cables to the armies "In order to be sure of obtaining British Co-operation, it is essential that patrols should not pass the line determined by tele- gram 129/3/11 of July 30th, unless there is a well marked attack."
The German ambassador return- ed twice during the day to ask the question from the Quay d'Orsay, What wil France do if a war should break out between Germany
and Russia??
As a guarantee of French neutra- ty, the ambassador is empower- ed to ask that the fortresses of
At seven in the evening, the Ger- man ambassador, "very red, swal-Toul, and Verdun be handed over len eyes, overcome. with erpation," hands to.Sazonov the German des claration of war.
At Paris-Jofre states that he will not be responsible for the safe- ty of the state if mobilisation is not ordered. The cabinet would have preferred waiting for the news of German mobilisation, but as they did not receive this news. the order was issued at 3.15 pm. Viviani posts an order of the day, "Mobilisation does not mean war. m the present chreumstances it
to Germany until the conclusion of the German-Russian war. After they would have been handed back to the French. The proposition was never made, because Viviani replied that France would act ac- cording to her interest, ¿
-At London.
The French ambassador asks, Grey for, a decision. The British minister says that there is no writ ten obligation. The opposition de- cided to assure Asquith of their un- conditional support,
respect him for his missionary mu tive, the motive of disinterested
had established himself, he won - His Death
the confidence alike of the busi. Morrison was fortunate, I am
ness community and of govern- ment oficials. His ability made sure, in the moment of his death. The gentle arts of twisting the great, hissing tongues of fame
lion's lali and disturbing the slum-him Indispensable, for he knew the the crowded streets of
Sers of the dragon had been car-language as no other Englishman old Canton. A few hours more.
ried to a point at which there was did. Those who began by admir- and the Factories will be ablaze.
but little patience left on ethering him for that went on then to The panic-stricken people trample
side. A few more years and open war was to break out between the one another underfoot in the nar- row streets,, struggling to escape,
In the (6) Nanchang-Kluktang Rail- and boatmen haggle and secure country be had left and the coun-
for conveying try he had come to serve. way: Specla! rates are granted exorbitant sums
it would for the transportation of flour: foreign merchants and their goods negotiations which led up to the wheat, canary seeds, yellow to safety. In the fierce glare of outbreak of hostilities,
have been equally difficult for nim seeds, green the burning city, we see Morrison.
thrusting into give his services and to refusé as day breaks, effectual petitions into the hands them. The greater part of what of offetais. Nothing can be done; he did in his official capacity went to patch up a state of things which they tell him it is Heaven's will
'could not possibly endure. It was the city should burn. And
by what he did in the quiet of his city burns.
own room, as student and as trans- lator, that he was creative of the future. And be had the lot of the The in that. ploneer, even
beans. sesamum
peas, and yams.
(7).
Tackow-Chinghua Rail way Special rates are granted for the transportation of food- stuffs from Taokow and Sanli- wan to Sinsiang.
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the
(8). Peiping-Liaoning Rall
Another episode arose out of a way: Special rates are granted
brush between a party, of men for the eastward transportation landed from a British frigate for of foodstuffs. Special rates are granted for the transportation water and the people of the island. of four between Tientsin and Marines were called on to extri- Shanhalkwan
Rail-
cate the seamen, and there were casualties on both sides. The
them.
fused,
19) Pelning-Suiyuan way: Special rates are granted Governor demanded the surrender of the 'murderers'. "Es he styled for the transportation of food-
Captain Richardson re- stuffs. (The entire railway is
and sent his defiance in divided into nine sections for this purpose). Special rates are round English by letter. Fortun- aise granted for the transportaately enough, the letter came by tion of beans and flour, as well devious route into Morrison's Hands for translation, and he de- as for the transportation east-
sided it had better so no farther. ward of native milled Sour.
Before long settlement was (10). Nanking-Shanghai and
retched, with Morrison acting Shanghai Hargchow - Ningpo once more as the intermediary. Rallways: Sepecial
It is easy to see that in such cases granted for the transportation
as these, it was not only his in- of foodstuffs.
Chenting-Talyuan Rail-guistic ability which had to be upon, but his personal way! Special rates are granted
11).
rates are
drawn
a
for the transportation of food qualities as well. stuffs and cotton.
(12) Canton-Kowloon Rall-
way: Special rates are granted beyond doubt that the complete for the transportation of rice solution of the present national and other cereals.
emergency necessitates an increase
in the burden of the people. "Who is to bear the expense of national reconstruction?
of the nation's
pioneer gives his life to labour and hardship.. and our threescore years and ten are so brief a span that he dies before men have ceased asking. To what purpose is this, waste?
Disinterested Services Emphasis is being laid through- out these centenary celebrations on the fact that Robert Morrison's memory is a common possession. It ought to serve therefore as a unifying force. When he came to South China, he was not wanted; he lived at first in a godown be- longing to a New York frm and Chinese the was called by the American missionary', so cold was the reception he had, from his fellow-countrymen. But once be
for
service. He was a missionary 'first and foremost, and he waS
seemed that nothing was to come faithful to the call. even when it
out of his work. He had chosen the kind devold of self-interest and spent hs income to the end on his work rather than on him- self...
I speak
here to an audience which includes many who must"of necessity work for immediate re- salts, for what can be put down on paper or reckoned up among a firm's assets. Yet the very fact that we meet under the auspices of a club which takes 'Service' as its motto is an indication that you are well aware that these are not the only, thngs, which count. Human history, like human lie, is the co-operation, often an in- voluntary one, of very diverse forces. Let this centenary serve as a re- minder to us of how much we owe, even in our balance-sheets and our security, to the men and from time to time women who have come to these shores, and not all as missionaries, prompted that impulse to dlin- by just terested service here Robert Morrison. (Applause).
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MORRISON SCHOLARSHIPS Mr. M. K. Lo at the conclusion of Dr. Allen's address said that they had been favoured with an interesting talk on an immortal talled measures immediately
figure in history. In Queen's the readjustment of existing loans, in accordance with the various College, he said, there were several In addition to the above, the
reaclution adapted at those meet scholarships known as Morrison ings. The Domestic and Foreign Scholarships and he thought that Ministry of Ralways has also re-
Loans Service Committe of the about Dr. Morrison that the hold- deed the rates for the transpor- tation of peanuts, water-melon Alleviation of the heavy load Ministry of Finance is now engagers of Morrison scholarships will seeds, sesamum seeds, and a very which has been bearing down theed in working out these measures be prouder than ever before to be which will be submitted for ex- associated with such an immortal large number of other products by rural population. in order to re-
name. the various National railways, and store their powers of productivity amination and discussion at, an
In proposing a vote of thanks has recently granted special rates is, indeed, indispensable for the early date.
During the past three years the Professor Forster that one could for the transportation of wheat development Furthermore, the Ministry of Rall-strength and the consolidation of Ministry of Rallways, has spared not but be struck with the single- ways has Instructed the various our vitality. But is it really the no effort, In spite of the variousness of purpose of Dr. Morrison, Railway Administrations to pri- most urgent task at the present amculties involved to readjust who was a man of robust common. Dr. Morrison succeeded in vide every facility for the trans-juncture?
the existing railway loans. As the sense. portation of rice, and to simplify Perplexed by questions such as result of its endeavour there has conveying to the Chiense people. traffic procedure to meet the con- these, many of our comrades are been a striking improvement in the finest thing England had in venience of farmers and mer agitating in favour of the conclu- the market quotation of Chinese the way of literature and religion, sion of more foreign loans. It may rallway bonds, as will be seen namely, the authorised version of with regard to the rehabilita- be at once granted that the con- from the comparison of quotations the Bible
for the In January of the 21st year of the Rev. EG. Powell took the op- tion of the currency conditions inclusion of freign loans the rural districts, the Ministry or development of domestic indus- Republic (1933) and in April of portunity to remind the audience
is an
altogether different the 23rd year (1934) shown in the that there were three' objectives Fallways has tentatively approved | tries
the conclusion of following table-
in the centenary celebratons, viz the request of the Four-Province matter from
Jan. April (1) Educational, (2) religious and barmere' Bank (Honan. Hapeh foreign loans for political purposes.
1932-1934 (3) financial' An appeal had been Anhwei and Kiangsi) to be given Definite methods of procedure for
made for funds but the response the same facilities as the Central the condusion of foreign loans
RaЛl- the late Party Peiping-Liaonign Bank and the Bank of Communi. were set out by
way Loan
had been disappointing and he expressed the hope that members cations in the matter of prefer. Leader (Dr. Sun) in his Outline of
of the Rotary Club wishing to ential rates for the transportation Industrial Reconstruction.
respond to the appeal might do so of specie during the period of one.
at an eafly" date.. year as an experiment.
chants.
404 694
7 64
Railway Loan..... 738 Donation's Received
£691 £881 53 96 Anglo-French Loan .............. One important point, however, Nanking-Shanghai Rai-1 must be taken into consideration Nanking-Shanghai Ralf-
Way Loan Canton-Kowloon Rail- The Ministry is also engaged in amely, that if we wish to con- investigating the causes of stagna- clude new loans, we must first re-
way Loan tion in the wheat market, as well adjust the various existing loans. as studying market conditions for If we are unable to do this, then First Tientsin Pukow othar agricultural products in the the credit of the Government ab- various districts served by the Na- road will suffer; and in that event, Second Tientsin-Pukow
Railway Loan
74. 28: tional railways. A full report on who will extend to us any new
Shanghai Hangchow this will be issued shartly in the loans?
Nangpo Railway Loan 831 891 Several meetings have been con- anonthly bulletin of the Rural, Re habilitation Commission for the vened by the Executive Yuan to Tackow-Chinghus 'Rail information of the public.
consider measures for the read-way Loan There is no doubt that these reinstment of existing loans. The Lunghal Railway Loan cent activities of the Ministries of Yuan has also instructed the Mini-Human-Kwangtung Rail-
way Loan Finance and Railways are bene stry of Finance and various other
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