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TO BE EQUALLY UNFAVOURABLE TO THE EXISTENCE OF CIVIL LIBERTY—
Lord John Rugscil.
tected. A very good test, there- fore, to see whether an industry is CONTROLLED DEMOCRACY ARE FOUND likely to lose more than it can gain by Protection is to see whether | Its exports are substantially larger than its imports. Judged by these tests, an economist has recently grouped the whole number of Bri tnin's unemployed, and in a very minute analysis of the situation he shows that there are less than four
per cent. of the whole of Britain's unemployed whose industries might perhaps be protected without In- jury to themselves or anyone except Ing the unfortunate domestic con- sumer who would have to pay more for his purchases. We have not the space at the moment in which to indicate the manner in which this result was arrived at, but facts and figures are given in great detail to support the con elusions reached.
On the general question,
issue.
We
The dollar again dropped to-day, the opening rate being 110.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. John Stuart to be a Justice of the Pence.
"CHARLIE.”
By OLIVER MADOX HUEFFER (Author of "Some of the English," ete.)
T A RECENT TIME, when I own kind to share his enjoyment, A&
was living in a poor part of and later would return home.and South London, I was honoured by go to bed again.
Why should he emigrate? Horo the nequaintance of a young house-
in Komwell he has everything mate whom will call Charlie. ilis Excellency the Governor hase was, by trade or perhaps I which can make life pleasant to a appointed Mr. R. A. U. Forrest to be should say by calling a plumber's ed for him free of cost by a grand- man with moderate means, provid- Deputy Estate Duty Commissioner.
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At Tuesday's meeting of the Rotary Club, Mr. J. Douglas Butcher, M.LE.E, will speak on "Electricity."
a
mate, but he had been so long un-
He was employed that I doubt if he would maternal Government. have known one end of a stand-probably-1 admit I do not know. the exact details in his case- pipe from the other.
Nevertheless, he was not diacon-assisted into the world by a gra- tunted with his lot, and one day throple. He was certainly pro tuitous clinic-official or philan-
His Excellency the Governor has when I asked him why he did not ided with aufcient free, com.. appointed Dr. J. S. Dykes to be tune, he asked me in reply what pulsory and inefficient education emigrate in search of better for- Member of the Dental Board for a tur further period of three years,
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There has been added to the list of medical practitioners the pains of
Bachelor Dr. K. V. Krishna, Medicine and Surgery. of the long- kong University.
*
the "contrary, the
of
name of the
Ste William Hornell, Vice-Chan
·
•
When he left school, after a per-
fectly horrid interval of a few weeks (and I admit that this is still a chink in the armour of our Social Services) in which he was.. compelled to work for his living simplest thing in the world-and -he became out of work--the
to set about it,
particulur kind of an ass I took to make it possible for him to for. He put it rather more read the betting, sweepstako, foot- forciby, but such was his purport. ball, and similar news. He was I read in the latest Board of given free menis, if he, or his Trade returns that the excess of parents, said that he needed them: Jast he was provided with boots if his British subjects emigrating year, as against those returning seemed to be down at heel. from abroad, was only 25,955, në against 87,469 in 1929, and on re- It is notifled that at the expiration flection I find myself wondering should have thought that the Con of three months unloes cause is shown what particular kind of an aas servatives had already had na sum. Į to cient number of disappointments thread the Company dis. He that question.
Kwong On Co., Ltd., will be struck off was to have asked my friend Char-
in attempting to push Protection | solved.
I suppose that all thinking pe to deter them from making #1-
ple are agreed that, for Imperial, other appeal to the country in the cellor of the University, returned on social, economic, and a dozen other ever thereafter remained on the Even their leader has, an-Nanking by the Harunn Maru yester reasons, emigration, on the larger dolean equally simple thing if til quite recently, held out stroax-meetings of the Board of Trustees for vious, if not the only, cure for though it is true it entails annoy-
day. Sir William has been attending the scale the better, is the most ob-you know how ly against certain implications. of the administration of the British most of the ills to which the Bri-ing attendances to the local a
to draw your Protection, and, in the coming
tish body politic is heir. There bour Exchange is no need to labour the point--it money. campaign we may be certain that
He drew-1 can only give the His Excellency the Governor has has been admirably expressed and some of his own arguments will be appointed. provisionally and subject justified in the Morning Post and figures coughly, as they vary so employed against him
to His Majesty's pleasure, the Hon. other organs of serious opinion. comalderably in individual cases Party. Fortunately,
and his Mr. R. H. Kotewail, C.M.G., LL.D., to But, granted as we all grant, that an average of, let us say, 15s. a there is no be temporarily an Unofeint Member it would be very much better, both week, which paid for his lodging macdiate prospect of the Govern of the Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, who la minions,
of the Executive Council in the place for England, for the
and a certain proportion of his and for
food and of the hire purchase ment being turned out of, office, temporarily absent from the Colony. if we could
induce
IL million money on his motor-bicycle. When for the Liberals declare that they
And he was in doubt as to which foot- or those who will stand four-square with Labour in defence of Free Trade. If the Government can hold office brighter times arrive, the Protec- tionist campaign may die a natural
death,
until
Chiang's Peace Effort,"
Chiang Kai-shek's anxiety to
politician 13
he
Boxer Indemnity Refund,
or 80
Do.
themselves,
In connexion with an essay contest no work to do in this country to ball, racing or other competition among members of the Guides on the subject of prevention Dominions who have work waiting of charge.
local Giri emigrate to those Colonies and to enter, he had only to go to the local free library to find out, free of cruelty to animals, the prizes for to be done and no one to do it, the best efforts were distributed by
He told me and I have no ren-
Mra. Southorn, wife of the Colonial how are you going to get that Secretary, yesterday afternoon at the superfluous million to see things son to doubt that he was telling Mui Fong Girls' College, members in the same light? And I confess the truth, though one must allow of which secured the first and second. I do not know.
for juvenile boasting, that he had prizes. The essay contest was given
peted with enthusiasm.
Take my young friend Charlie. on one occasion won £20 in a foot- to them in Chinese, and the girls com. Why should he emigrate? True, ball newspaper lattery and on un-
years prior
Sr. D. Joke
S.E.
that he is out of work. But, under other £10-la, I think, a "literary" present conditions in England, competition (save the mark!), why in the world should he want with other smaller sums, which News has been received in Heng-to be in work? Still less why provided him with pocket money avoid the issues raised by the Can-kong of the death in Barcelona, Spain, should he want to emigrate? and the minor luxuries, ton revelt seems significant. De-at the age of 46 years,
His scheme of life, as far us I Maria Basa, Jr., (Pepito), on the 23rd Charlie had a room opposite to The elector at Home is apparent-serted by many of his erstwhile col-inst, St. BREK was a son of the late my own, on the fourth floor of the could understand it, was to go on ly once again to be pestered with leagues; men af powerful influence, Sr. D. Jose Basa, well-known in the apartment house kept by my very as he was going until, as he con- Colony, where he resided for many good friend Mrs. Thwaites, infidently expected, he won one of the Free Trade v. Protection con- his position in the country has ap
to and following the Barnard'a-grove, Romwell,
the really large newspaper lot-" troversy, witness. the fart 1 leat
preciably weakened, and, practical Pilipino Revolution against Spain, ns 121. It was quite a pleasant room,teries of so many thousand pounds,
is. the political refugee. thousands of meetings are to be held Nanking leader
He was a brother looking over the garden. He paid or so many pounds a week for life, has Hot fail- of D. Ricardo Basa, the well-known and paid honestlys. 6d. nas the case might be, and then on the subject before the end ofed to realise H. Among the per-
lastness aan and popular sportsman, week for it, which was rather dear. always the old age pension to look retire. Failing that, there was the year.
It is obvious that the onslities arrayed against him are
His scheme of life was somewhat forward to. Conservatives are out in an at many whose accusative vice car-
The Health Bulletin of Eastern follows. He rose about 9 a.m.,
Given all this, what kind of an tempt to convert the public to the Tits, to the heart
Ports for the week ending May 23, made himself a cup of tea on the belief that Free Trade, as it is whom he would vasaly prefer Lotious diseases and the deaths there again. He remained in bed until
of, shows the following cases on infec-gas-stove, and went back to bed as might not Charlie reasonably consider himself were he to emi- grate to sonte new, cold-hearted have DIL roureived B England, has bad its
his side. Yet, unless from: Pingue, Baghdad 4 cases 2 mitiday, or whenever the local
deaths, Bassein 1 case 1 death, Bom-public-houses
country where, as he had often we are greatly mistaken, there is bay 1 case 1 death. day. They are no doubt hoping the prospect of success in his cutta 49 cases 24 deaths, Chittagong himself what Mr. Richard Swivel-if he did not must starve, where
Cholera, Cal-time he was accustomed to buy must
if he wanted to live he pence overtures. Chiang is either cases 7 death, Madras 11ler used to call "a modest quen-spoon-feeding was unknown and. from the fact that conditions at dereiving himself or allowing him-1 case i dents, Snigust 14 cases 25 cher.
deaths, Pondicherry 2 enses, Bangkok, Home just now are about as bad as self to be deceived. His message deaths, Canton 2 cases 1 death. Small- In the meantime he "worked" at popularly regarded as a crime?. absurdest of all, malingering they could be. In other words, to Sun Fe suggests a belief that pox, Baghdad 1 caar, Bombay & enses, picture, puzzles, football competi-He, the free citizen of a grand- they think the prescut is the pay the son of the "Father of the Re-cases & deaths, Rangoon 1 death, ticular competition the ignobler anxious to support him in comfort Calcutta 19 cases 17 deaths, Madras tions, "Bullets," or whatever par maternal State, not only ready but chologien! moment. There is, ad- E-public" has been neting under Vizagapatam 5 cases 1 denth, Pondi-section of the "national" Press from the day he came into the duress. His disillusionment will death, Canton Leathe, Shange chose to dedicate to his profit and world until the day he left it, to rome when he receives the full text deaths, Greater Shanghal 1 case would probably go for a run on tions as that!
1 1 case, Shanghai amusement. In the afternoon he submit to such barbarous condi- Cerebra-Spinal Fever, Shanghul
to gain support for their Viewk
mittedly, a greater likelihood of the voters turning to Protection in of Mr. Son Fo's personal message, a time of depression than when published in the Telegraph yester trade and industry are booming day. In any event, there is nothing for it is only human nature to give in Chiang's message which would any system a trial during bad indiente willingness to make any) times in the hope that it may brigh- | concession to the wishes of his op- ten the outlook. It will, neverthe-ponents, there is no recognition of less, be a surprise if the Protce- the vital point in the dispute, the Illegal detention of Mr. Hu Han- Bonista win the public over to their opinione. The Conservative, and go offer to set him at liberty. The events of the past ease would be infinitely stronger month are the direct consequence than it is if it could be shown that, of that blunder; were in fact in the present period of deprca-foreshadowed by one of our spe sion, those countries which believe cial correspondents in March. "It in tariffs are enjoying a measure
is not surprising," he wrote in comment at the time, "that so tried of prosperity which Free Trade
and stalwart a defender of the nations do not. In actual fact. Kuomintang faith in Hu Han-min. however, we find distress and should find himself in unalterable employment just as rife in the opposition to the changes in Kuo- United States and Germany, for mintang policy. In this case, the example, as in England; indeed, strength of the argument les with the consistent theorist rather than One of the principal arguments with the practical politietan. It is against Protection Is that it must significent both of the strength and inevitably send up prices to con- should be reduced to the use of the weakness of Chiang that he sumers. The answer given to that force. He has the present posses- ig that whilst Protection may pos- sion of force, it the future must sibly increase prices, it will enable be with the man who for the sake the consumer to carn more money, of principle refuses to give his It obviously can only do this by consent to what he belloves to be. keeping foreign goods out, so that a policy of betrayal. It is uniiko- British workers may make these ly that the President's move will make for peace. The Revolution goods Instend. Dut every indus will go on without him." Those Liry has to buy its raw materials. thoughts of March last have been which may themselves be partly so far borne out amply by events, manufactured, and its machinery the sequence of which is not yet; and other implements of trade. If however, complete.
even more 80.
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opened, at which becaark quite horridly hard, or
deaths and Greater Shanghai 3 cases his motor-bicycle, as likely na not picking up a young woman of his
2 deaths.
__6_2 1991 BY HEA KETTICK, PICU SER, LÍ K PAT. OFT.
"Have patience, Mona that man on the top-floor will throw. something, if I play this place a few more. times."
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Does he not know that his neigh- bours and his Governors alike consider it, on the contrary, crimi- nal to permit not force- man to work for more than seven hours a day lest he thereby gain Jan advantage over his fellowman who does not wish to work at all? Why in the world should he emigrate?
He will not, while life is gra. tuitously made more comfortable for him at home in all circums- tances than it can be abroad in any. And, now that the govern ance of England has been placed In his hands and those of Lottle, his sister, and Tom and Dick and Katle and Flo, their friends, you may
be very sure that no Govern ment will ever attempt any legi lation which might lessen or inter- - fere with those gratuitous com- forts rather the contrary, indeed, as long the wherewithal can be found in other people's pockets. The surprising thing, indeed, is that as many as 25,000 people-you may be quite sure there Charlies among them-can be found to leave the land of milk and honey, of free bread and cir- ounes, to tempt fortune in a Myn- terlous Unknown:
are no
It is, of course, true that at a time like the present, of word-wide depression, no country is particu- larly anxious to receive the sur plus population of its neighours. but that le, a phenomenon of Very recent data, while the emigration Agures have been dropping steadi ly ever since spoon-feeding began at home. When trade roviver, in the Colonies, Dominions and else where, and they again cry out for (Continued on Page 7.į