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THE TARIFF REVISION COMMISSION.

INAUGURAL SPEECH TO THE DELEGATES: IMPORTANCE ~ OF THE COMMISSION'S

WORK

THE CHINA MAIL.

The inaugural meeting of the Customs Tariff Revision Commission was held on March 31 at Chinese General Chambers of Commierze Sanghai under the chairmanship of About BO Admiral Thai Ting-kan delegates were assembled, and the

informs proceedings ware of an character.

Admiral Tast who was received with cheers, said:

national

AWAKENING CHINA.

taking care of our intereste let us not forget the other

DR. JOSEPH TAYLOR ON partion needs. Let as not forget

HIS WORK to view the subject from the other countries' points of view.” An img proverished Chins will reduce har correspondant sends to the Hon. buying power, and thus cripple your chester Guardian soma remarka aa the trade with our people. A constant remit of a conversation with Dr. evaporation from the ocean without Joseph Taylor. He says:& railway rainfall will soon dry up the rivers signal-cabin, boy who has become and scas. Give and take has been Chairman of the Senate of a univer and will continue to be the goldensity is a character not to be met rule in trade and commerce as well with every day. Dr. Joseph Taylor, a Yorkshireman from Malton, hegan as in all things else.

bis career in & North-Eastern Railway signal box, went to America at the age of twenty, graduated at the Brown University, Rhode Island, and Foari har for the past twenty devoted himself to work in Chins, of the Senate of the Weat where he has become Chairman

AN EFFICHIVE JIVE FX CENT.

With the vision of true statesman ship, with broad and liberal views to bear on the subject of tariff revision, you will leathe to play the part of scraping iron from the point of a needle of giving, China anything less than an effective five per cent.

I have much honour and pleasure in welcoming you here to-day. Old

I will make myself better under- China Union University, Cheng-tu. friends and familiar faces bring me

members stood by quoting what Mr. Balfour He is in England en route for America. encouragement and new give me hope in the future work of said at the Figrima' Society dinner of which county he has become a

perty in London on February 25. citiran. "My great hope for China, the Tariff Revizion Commission.

"The repre he said, "is in an enlightened and In the midst of destruction in the Mr. Balfont said: Great War the Tariff Revision Com-sentatives of the Nine Powers took educated decocracy. Not even the mission sat in 1913 in this very room about 16 weeks' labour to bring the monarchical dynasties have been able un- so crash out the essential democracy to do a bit of re-constractive work. Washington Conference to an

to every one in the towns and villages. For ages Again in the midst of social and politi-mixed satisfaction cal upheaval, amidst commercial and present and no representative will re- their guild organisations have been economic disturbances we are sitting turn home without claiming that he doing what the West is now talking here to-day with the specific object of has furthered the interests of the about doing, re-adjusting prices and firing a new world and thereby the interests of his

own people."

tarif

FEED OF CO-OPERATION.

Even in Szechwan, so far in the West that our work is necessarily

If that be true of the represents-mach more pioneering than that tives at the Washington Conference I nearer the coast, we cannot keep pace If the world ever needed interns-am sure it shall be true of the dele- with the educational demand of the The Weet China Union tional co-operation it is to-day. After gates of this Commission. We cannot people. the terrible years of destruction the do less and feel less. Our work may University, established fourteen years old order of things has passed away be less in degree of importance but its ago by the Friends' Foreign Mission reconstruction is necessary quality shall not be less. We too Association, the Canadian Methodists, and demanded, otherwise Con shall finish with perfect satisfaction the American Baptists, and Episcopal fusion will continue reign to all present for farthering the in- Methodists, and recently joined by the The world needs sympathy and rest of the world and the interest of Church Missionary Society, cannot cope with the demands made upon it.” our own people. good-will and mutual helpfulness. One supreme fact has loomed up be fore the world. It is this; that no one ration can suffer without the other nations suffering with it.

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This Commission can never belittle its labours. It will not only be fixing a five per cent, ad valorem duty for imports, but consciously or uncon sciously it will be solving one of the woric's problems. Its duty is a part "Co- of international co-operation, operation of all peoples is the path to the world's salvation," sa some one said. If we realize this higher part of our duty we will have a clearer notion of what we should do and shall do.

RESTORING EQUILIBRIUM.

I quote from a recent journal the following: ..

At the conclusion of his address, Admiral Tsai said he did not expect that the first session of the Conference would take place until at least a week hence.

WHAT IS DUE TO CHINA.

women

Despite the urgent needs of the many applicants, finance is the bar to the opening of the gates of the

studerts University for Besides the ordinary courses, includ- ing medicine (the latter is being taken Mr. H. H. Fox, OMG, the British up by fifty students out of 400), there behalf of Great is course in alk-g. tz and delegate, on

"The ideal of the Britain and the other delegations as spinning. wall sa those delegates who attended University," said Dr. Taylor, is to the last Commission, thanked create a corps of leaders doing in- the Chairman for his very kind tensive educational work in order that reception. It was with great ples the Chinese Church can do extensive are that they saw him there and also evangelistic and educational work. their friend, Mr. L. A Lyall. They Only two or three of the University all felt quite sure that with two such teachers are Chinese, but most of those experienced men to direct the work of at the great middle school at Cheng. the commission, it would be possible tu, which is a city of half a million to do their best to give the Chinese inhabitants, are Chinese, including the Government what was admitted was principal, Mr. Yang Shao Chuen, who "The greatest project confrenting justly due to them. The only diffiisa Qusker. Akeady there are 15,000 the statesmen of Europe to day is the culty was on what basis the tariff was children at schools in the province. These and their successors will want restoration of the equilibrium of the to be revised.

"I feel sure that all of us," said all the teachers we can turn out.” world. Mach good can be obtained

That the University is succeeding through representatives of all coun- Mr. Fox, "are studying the matter tries rubbing elbows, coming into with a spirit of goodwill and that we in making itself a factor in the life of close contact with one another, dis- shall arrive, at that basis which will the country in evident from the fact that during the recent cholers out- cussing problems at the conference be just and fair all round.'

break the Provincial Goverment ap- table and having opportunities of

The list of delegates so far appoint-pointed one of their students s viewing a subject from the other countries points of view. but actual ed to the commission, most of whom medical officer of Cheng-tu to cope economic reconstruction and revival can only be brought about by prolong ed hard work and the co-operation of all peoples. More and more the liberal minded peoples of all allied countries are realizing the root idea that Europe is economically one and that nations prospar by each other's prosperity and auffer by each other's misfortunes. In his address before the Anglo-American Association (in Peking) Sir Charles Addis has appro priately reminded his audience of this fundamental basis of world re- construction.”

Hi this mutas prosperity or ad- versity is true of Europe it is also true of the entire world." If it is true in the realm of economics in Europe it is also true in the realm of economic in Asia.

GIVE AND TAKE.

So far as I am aware there is in

sil human transactions no absolate advantage to one party and abro- late disadvantage to another party.

THE DELEGATES.

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were present at the function, is as follows:-

Great Britain: Messrs. H. H. Fox, C.M.G., and A. H. George.

France: MM. Knight, Madier and Fredet."

Italy; Comm. G. de Bossi, Signor Giaolino.

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Brazil: Mr. Hugo Reiss Denmark: Mesert. T. Basschoo, Hergel and Johannes Jespersen. Spain: Don Louis Rubis Amoedo. Portugal: Messrs. Batalha Freitas and & E. Monseiur.

Holland: Meser. William Daniels and M. J. Herschich

Belgium: MM. Von Hauter and Stractmang.

Norway MM. Nicolao Aal and F. Sem.

Sweden: Baron Akerheilm and M. Renborg..

Japan: Messrs T. Fanatan, S. Hayakawa and S. Orame

The West China with the epidemic, which carried off 10,000 souls Union" is the only university for the whole of the 60,000,000 inhabitants of Ezechwan. For the thousands who cannot be reached directly or are part school age Dr. Taylor has great faith in the help of the simplified phonetic script. The enlightened Governor of Shanai, Mr. Yen-hai-shai, seeing the significance of this simple form of distributed many education, bas millions of copies of text-books. In doing this he is carrying out the course foreshadowed forty years ago by La Hang-chang

Timothy and Dr. Richard.

The

last time when six months were wasted and nothing resulted. chairman then, Mr. Tseng Ja- cheng, did not understand any foreign language and matters were delayed and time wasted. This time, The names of the American and with the experience and the inform Swise delegates have not yet beanation we have gained from the last revision conference, we expect to be much quicker in our work. Besides, many delegates to the present con ference were members of the old Com- mission. So I have every confidence

If this state of affairs does exist announced,

not it cannot last long. It is within the nature of things that!

THE CHAIRMAN'S BOPEJ.

In the course of a statement made the world shall roll on one-sided to s representative of the North China and out of equilibrium. The eri Daily News regarding the work of dences of natural law and human the commission; Admiral Trai said and expectation that things will go Therefore "I think this time we will be able on smoothly and everything settled history are against it.

in our coming work, while we are to work more smoothly than we did agreeably,

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