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know that was worked up against the Government at Canton. Now, Gentlemen, of course a great deal of play was made by Mr. Potter in regard to the English Newspapers published in the Colony. For you this is absolutely irrelevant. Two wrongs do not make a right. If these English Newspapers are wrong then they come within the law. If they do not come within the law that is no reason why this man
should not come within the law. You cannot say that the English Newspapers have gone on publishing articles which infringe the law, and that therefore the Chinese may. I think there is really
a difference that Mr. Brewin was willing to admit. He says the Chinaman does not pay that regard to foreign advice as he would to a Chinaman's advice. Obviously a Chinaman will not go against hir Government merely because an Elishman or Frenchman chooses to
advise him. There is such a thing as national sentiment, and I think you will agree with me that national sentiment induces a people to reject foreign advice. We as you know in the past have always rejected, when we are passing laws, Home Rule laws for example, the advice which foreign nations tendered to us. National sentiment rejects that altogether, and I think I must safely ask you
to believe that a Chinaman would not be influenced by advice sup- -posing it was revolutionary advice tendered to him by an English newspaper. He would not be so much influenced by that as he would by advice tendered by his own newspapers, the more especially
as Chinese not those in Hongkong - do not think much of the foreigner. Therefore I think you must discard from your minds al- -together any effect which these highly critical articles in En- -glish newspapers would have. You must judge whether this series of articles will really tend to promote disorder and tumult in China. Now, Gentlemen, there is one technical point. Of course a great deal has been said with regard to the first article. It is perfect- -ly true that eight months ago the Government knew about it. You will agree with me that on the first reading of that article you could not possibly convict, and I do not think that any law officer would have suggested it. It is the series of articles, one more strong than the other, one perhaps almost inocuous, but all
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