The marks of your rule must be seen;
Our pen cannot utter its praises.
Page 352
Before this place knew you it was not lacking in prosperity. Yet property could not be left in the streets unguarded for perverse people were brought up in the ways of petty theft.
Elsewhere innocent men were involved in the law's meshes by false charges and theirs was the sorrow wrought by injustice.
But how could the oppressor enter Hongkong or the thief that breaks through or climbs over a wall.
You, Sir, looked strictly to conduct in all subordinate officers; and were sure of the right sort of men to carry out your commands. Your wise choice of responsible persons whose characters were like those of Shuk Po kept our highways free from mounted robbers. No sooner was heard the voice of complaint than the act of oppression was stopped.
You had no need to put on the dread appearance of offended Majesty for without any outward signs men knew your just severity nor was there any distance to which the dread of you did not reach.
In the times of the Chau, Kwai Hong Wah distressed at the number of thieves in the state. There were no such times in Hongkong for your control like Kung Sui's turned robbers to honest citizens.
Beneficent indeed was this power.
In the times that preceded your coming the keepers of harlots' houses beguiled innocent females to their ruin without regard to the age of their victims. There was then in vogue a system of brothel farming. Weak and helpless girls in the power of these terrible women were as the grass that is swept by the storm wind or as flowers dropped into the current and borne on the swirling waters they were carried to foreign countries and sold to a life of shame.
You began to protect the innocent and the defenceless and by means of the Po Leung Kuk peaceful habitations were multiplied.
You, Sir, had Chau Man Wong's transforming influence that went throughout the Kong Haw so that men and women became models of chaste propriety.
The licentious assignations of the Tsun and Hai were abolished. In virtuous practices the people daily became stronger.
This, Sir, was the far-reaching result of your benevolent Government. Finally, it is essential that Government should cultivate talent. Your watchful eye was ever on our schools, love of knowledge was awakened and methods of teaching improved. You, our noble lord, knew how to select and train our ablest youth for the public service; you inspired perseverance in study and when learners are worthy conceit of manner is banished and criticism is still.
This
The marks of your rule must be seen;
Our pen cannot utter its praises.
352
Before this place knew you it was not lacking in prosperity. Yet pro- perty could not be left in the streets unguarded for perverse people were brought up in the ways of petty theft.
Elsewhere innocent men were involved in the law's meshes by false charges and theirs was the sorrow wrought by injustice
But how could the oppressor enter Hongkong or the thief that breaks through or olimbs over a wall.
You, Sir, looked strictly to conduct in all subordinate officers; and were sure of the right sort of men to carry out your commands. Your wise choice of responsible persons whose characters were like those of Shuk Po kept our high ways free from mounted robbers No sooner was heard the voice of complaint than the act of oppression was stopped.
You had no need to put on the dread appearance of offended Majesty for without any outward signs men knew your just severity nor was there any distance to which the dread of you did not reach.
In the times of the Chau, Kwai Hong Wah distressed at the number of thieves in the state. There were no such times in Hongkang for your control like Kung Sui's turned robbers to honest citizens.
Beneficent indeed was this power.
In the times that preceded your coning the keepers of harlots houses beguiled innocent females to their ruin without regard to the age of their victims. There was then in vogue a system of brothel farming. Weak and helpless girls in the power of these terrible women were as the grass that is swept by the storm wind or as flowers dropped into the current and borne on the awirling waters they were carried to foreign countries and sold to a life of shame.
You began to protect the innocent and the defenceless and by means
of the Po Leung Kuk peaceful habitations were multiplied.
You, Sir, had Ohau Man Wong's transforming influence that went throughout the Kong How so that men and women becane models of chaste propriety.
The licentious assignations of the Tsun and Ħai were abolished. In virtuous practices the people daily became stronger.
This, Sir, was the far reaching result of your benevolent Government. Finally it is essential that Government should cultivate talent. Your watchful eye was ever on our schools, love of knowledge was awakened and methods of teaching improved. You, aur noble lord, knew how to select and train our ablest youth for the public service you inspired perseverance in study and when learners are worthy conceit of manner is banished and criticism is still.
This
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