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accomplished, and to show that they would not open the door to greater evils than those they sought to remove.
Under a nominally popular government, as in that of New York, for example (to which I have already referred), the greatest abuses may be perpetuated, and it is almost impossible to conceive representative government properly so called put into operation in a peculiar place like Hongkong without the worst abuses cropping in - I can see room for, and danger of, the worst abuses! It is incumbent on those who agitate for a change to show how they mean to prevent such abuses, and to do this the petitioners ought
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accomplished, and to shorr that they would not open the door to greater evils than. those they sought to remove.
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popular government as in that of New York, for example (to which I have already referred) the greatest abuses may perpetuated, and it is almost impossible to conceive representative government properly so called put into
operation in a peculiar place like Stongkong without the worst abuses cropping in- I can see room for, and danger. of the worst abuses! It is incumbent on those who agitak for a change to show how they mean to prevent such abuses, and to do this the petitioners
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