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administration made him powerful enough to be considered
dangerous, and he was assassinated by order of the Peking
Government a year or so later. He introduced a number
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of enlightened reforms, many of them far in advance of
the times: and he was strong enough to impose his will
on the people while he lived in everything but the question
of mui tsai. In that matter, at the height of his power, he forbade "sales", decreed a system of registration set up an expensive system of homes, and gave inquisi-
torial authority to his men;- and nothing happened,
except that he was almost openly laughed at. And the
tendency in many matters since the Revolution, to settle back again into the old Chinese groove, makes any such moverent now even less likely to succeed.
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That the system has and must have its abuses
cannot be denied. That the number of cases in which it
is abused is very large is also true: but there are no
data for making a proportionate estimate beyond such
generalities as that the custom is practically universal
and the system accepted: and is therefore on the whole
beneficial. The abuses, however, ate actively
recognised as abuses by all the better Chinese; and with
them it is only a question of the extent to which they
can be checked: and granted that the system itself must be allowed as yet to continue, this problem of checking the abuses becomes the immediate matter in hand.
In a question of this nature it is not possible
to dissociate Hong Kong from China. There is a very lar-e daily passenger traffic with the Colony by River
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