CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921 — Page 205

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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 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 neight 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 movement now even less likely to succeed.

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 possibb

to dissociate Hong Kong from China. There is a very lare daily passenger traffic with the Colony by River

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