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Hengkong, ijih November, 1904.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER

Entimations.

MAGASIN DE LA MODE

(FLINT & CO.)

No. 4, DES VEUX ROAD.

CHINA'S FINANCIAL, PROBLEM.

VICEROY CHANO'S REMARKABLE MEMORIAL

Memorial of Viceroy Chang commenting" "ON Str. Robert Bart's Memorandum com Taxation as stated in an Edict of 7th March, po. Translated from the “Shenpao" of the and instant, The Edict states, that Sir Robert Hart's proposals on taxation had been presented to BEG to announce that they have the Throne by the Waiwupu. He says the chief

just received their

NEW SEASON'S GOODS

consisting of

ORIGINAL CREATIONS

MILLINERY, GOWNS,

FANCY BLOUSES,

were resolved on for the Empire. It is not conceivable that as much as tojo-o mow in. sudition would be found in the taxable area of overy baien city

But supposing that there were an addition of turable land in the area of every district city, the Increase would not mount to a thousand taeli of silver. The profit would be small, and the expense and labour involved would be very great. The whole population would be excited. Each a would be subjected to much trouble.. The anxiety and grief occasioned would be painful

beyond description.

The Government has at present more than enough of difficulty on hand. It is highly im- portant to quiet the minds of the people. The Indemnity fixed by treaty in 1901 requires an

1904.

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clear the blood, and the blood becomes impare

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FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TOMORROW,

the 22nd November 1904, at 2,30 P., at their Sales Rooms No. 8, Des Væsx Road,

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source of revenue for the support of the Army is in the land and grain taxes. If these sour- ces of revenue are well managed there will be money enough for the Army, for drilling troops, and for other important uses. Let every mow of land be assumed to yield two hundred casually Taels 18,000,000 to be paid to foreign countries. Each province is spending money to the revenue. If this be collected the peo on new improvements (such as railwayı, coletas food cures hunger, Blood is the fond of the SCREENS, KAKEMONOS, SILVER ple need not be wonied and the State may loges, etc.). Innumerable small 'expenditures body: Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the foodWARE, TEA SETS, &c., &c, &c.

cease to feel anxious about dismemberment.

orials.

of the blood. The genuine pills always bear Dr. Williams' name, and substituted are useless and fraudulent. Dr. Williams Medicine Com- pany, Holborne Vinduct. London, will send s boule post-free for 28. gd. (or six bottles for x gd.); but they can be had it medicine stinps provided purchasers insist (it is often necessary to insist) on having the genuins and on refusing any substitutë. It is by making the principle of light taxation and few imposts.sumption, decline, indigestion, St. Vitua' dence:

During 300 years our dynasty has ruled on

new blood that they cura anemia, bile, con-

Edict said the land tax should never be in-matism, kidney disease, eczema, and all skin to the tenth year of Kanghai (A.D. 1711) an it is by making pure blood that they cure then creased. When great armies were required troubles. They improve the appetite, almost and great works were planned, when even the from the first dose, and they give strength to Treasury was empty, the lead tax was not increased. The system of kiuen shu contribu- ions and that of likin collection were added, but the land tax has not been increased and has often been remitted. This is because farmers, more than any other class, labour hard for small returns. Miserably poor they are doubtless.

At present the revenue is deficient and there lake away the means of subsistence from the is urgent need of funds to drill the Army, and poor of every locality. Infamous persons effect other improvements.

tempt the people to wrong-doing, and they are The Empero `directs the Governors and Viceroys to consult everywhere. Falso stories are invented to lead with each other and offer their views in mom people astray. Foolish persons believe them Sir Robert Hart's Memorandum is and hurry after some unprincipled schemer. ordered to be copied in order that it may be Should any new cause of disturbance be added sent to the Viceroys and Governors. (Ki'ajust now to stir men's minds and trouble the

authorities? L'el) Viceroy Chang remarks that Tuan Fang, his locum tenens, has not replied to and WRAPS, Chang says be has considered the Inspector. this Edict but sent it to him (Chang). Viceroy General's proposal carefully and has consulted which will be ready for their clients' with his subordinates and with the Viceroys and Govemors upon it. The Inspector-General inspection on

states the possible revenue at much loo high figure. It could not be raised and it would excite insurrections. I will now, says the Viceroy, state the faults and advantages of the proposals before your Majesties. Without counting Turkestan, Mongolia, and Manchuria, China is 4,000 li wide and 4,000 li deep. Its area is 15,000,000 square miles (11). Each

Tuesday, 22nd November, 1904.

Hongkong, 19th November, 1904. – [x254

NOTICE..

ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD. Tho gives information leading to the "HE above sum will be paid to any person

arrest and conviction of the person or persons guilty of Stealing or Embezzling, a CHEQUE FOR NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS made out in favour of Messieurs JEBSEN, AND COMPANY and indorsed by them and sent to be paid into the DEUTSCHE ASIATISCHE BANK in this Colony on the 8th October, 1904, but which was unlawfully cashed and the proceeds stolen by some person or persons unknown.

F. J. BADELEY,

Capt. Supt. of Police, Hongkong, 15th November, 1904. [1244

ST. ANDREW'S BALL.

SCOTSMEN desirous of SUBCRIBING the forthcoming ST. ANDREW'S BALL, on 30th November, are requested in forward to the Undersigned their NAMES and ADDRESSES, and to state whether Married er Single.

DAVID WOOD,

Hon. Secretary, St. Andrew's Ball Committee. Hongkong, 26th October, 1904. [64

MR. PIDGEON begive Pupils for

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Hongkong, 18th November, 1904. · [1252

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square, li contains 500 mow and 16,000,000 multiplied by 500 equals 8,000,000,000 mów. If each mow pays two hundred cash and if cash, the total revenue will be Tia. 80,000,000 each tael of silver be assumed equal to 2,000

Let us suppose the revenus to be half of this, it would be Tis. 400.000,007. If this be true the road to riches will be indeed a short one. Every Governor and Viceroy will with joy adopt the suggestion. At the risk of no matter how much trouble it may cause him, and how much dissatisfaction it may awaken, he will proceed at once to relieve the anxiety of the Sovereigns and to open, the way to wealth and comfort to all the people.

But the Inspector-General has looked at old maps of China and calculated its area. His estimate is based on emptiness. He supposes

the great and small rivers and lakes, the cities, towns, and villaxes, the mountains and barrez wastes to be all a part of the area capable of Cultivation, Dividing 8,000,000,000 mow by two he arrives at the conclusion that China can yield a "evenue from land and grain takes of [Ts. 400,000,00›, He emits to think that in China most of the area is mountainous, or is

covered by rivers and lakes; cultivated plains amount to much less than balf. In the Hups

Ise li of 1874 the total number of mow is given

as 743,000,000. This is less than one-tenth of the area stated by Sir Robert Hart, If there has been collusion and concealment the true area cannot be much above this amount. The cal tivated area has been measured during the suc. cosive reigns of the Emperors. How can there

be any great difference between the area of China agta ago and the area now under the Manchu sovereign's? A difference amounting to ten times as much as the whole is impossible It may be said that the mow differs and the land-tax varies in this region and in that; of

course some localties are fertile and others are

barren; this leads to differences in land-tax- and grain tax. Taxes cannot be levied accord ing to land measurement but according to the PIANOS PIANOS quality of the soil. Ta levy zoo cash on every mow is absurd. The Board of Revenue has lately ordered the Empire to pay yearly in silver tacle 3,100,000,000, the whole area being if all the land be taxed evenly 740,000,000; without reference to quality each mow will only be liable for less than five candareens of silver. The inspector-General supposes each mow to be liable for one mace; this is adding at one stroke to the taxation so much that it is double what it was. This the people could not bear.

Some persons may say that zoo cash a mow is not much to pay, but in the South-Eastern Provinces where land is very productive the tax is more than 200 cash a mow. But it is only in some prefectures that this is true. In North-Eastern China there is not a little waste

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The Inspector-General of Customs proposes that the Customs duties be abolished and the salt tax also. The people should be, allowed to trade, but is this for the benefit of the peo ple or is it to extend the profit of the pro-

from the farmer. The trader and artisan are prietory? The Tls. 400,000,000 which the State requires each year is all to be taken

more unjust than this of Sir Robert Hart's? to contribute nothing. Can any scheme be The result could not only be extremely disas trous. What can be his meaning in framing such a proposition?

the Customs were placed in foreign hands half My thoughts run in this direction. Since of the power of controlling the wealth of China has been in foreign hands too. In this Memorandum of Sir R. Hart I see that, he wishes to have the control of the land-tax alus.

Should he obtain it as the result of his cleverly expressed and ably written Memorandum he will have too much power over China's finance. have been rending over several times the

Edicts of the Empress Dowager and of the Emperor. They say much of the misery of the people and the merciless exactions of the magistrates and the tax-collectors, All the people are deeply affected by these Edicts. They weep as they read them.. 1 feel contain that, the sovereigns will not be swayed by the persuasive words of this Memorandum. I have been in the provinces for many years. I have seen much of land measuring and the levy of taxes on newly cultivated land. There are certainly not 400 million mow of land the produce of which would be

a tax of 200 cash a mow, Sir R. Hart asks that he may have the control of the land and grain taxes. His statements are far wrong and ought not to be regarded as in any degree practicable. I cannot be a party to support 40 such design. The sovereigns have com-

manded us eich to state his view. The in- crease of the revenus for the support of the 'army and drilling new troops is a pressing food at the present time. Is is the duty of all the Governors and Viceroys to adopt methods suited to the conditions of each province for a larger collection of money in so far as it can be obtained withot laying now taxes on the already over-burdened people. The amount must not be oppressive nor the procedure plainly worn-out and one-sided. Certainly the method should not be by an enormous addition in the land tax to the neglect of other sources of revenue. Let there be cutting down here and there. Let each region be made to pro- duce that which it is adapted for. Let all unite their strength to raise what is required. Al though an incredibly great addition to the revenue is not to be thought of, yet little by little, an ounce bere, a catty there, inch by inch, and foot by foot, a substantial result may be fairly expected.

In every province some prefecture or district cultivation, land without an owner, quietly may have a now piece of land brought under ploughed and sown without the knowledge of the magistrate. For many years such has paid no taxes. Proof can be had and the amount of additional revenue may very well be con- siderable. All the Viceroys and Governors should diligently and Increasingly inquire and proceed to measure all such land very carefully, so that a sum of money, it may be more or it may be less, may be gained by the national Treasury,

I beg your Majesties to give the order to have the acipal state of each province care- folly investigated. China is very weak at present Dangers surround the Fatherland, There should be great caution. Action should we must remember the work of those able be thorough and efficient in every particular.. generals and statesmen who put down the Tai ping rebellion. In planting their encampments and fighting their battles they showed wisdom and foreseeing prudence. They succeeded because they deserved to succeed,

often a family of eight cannot subsiston several tens of mow occupied by them or on a farm of more than too mow. The produce does not in some years suffice for their food and clothing To obtain from them ten, twenty, and thirty strings of cash each year as land-tax is often impossible. It is plain then that two hundred cash a mow is far too large an amount to be | thought of an an estimate of land-tax.

Besides the mow varies is area. In some

So in regard to success in finance, 1 beg localitics it is 240 kung; in others it is 36b your Majesties not to listen to clever novelties kung; in some places it is 720 kung. These couched in language plessing to the ear. values have been transmitted froha former times, Unwise finance leads to insurrections. There It is impracticable to obtain asiformity in are many rebellions chronicled in history returns from various provinces. Another cause Rebellions occasioned by extortionate ex which were caused by unwise finance. of diversity is concealment of the true areas of actions are most easily produced in limes of firms. Rich proprietors hector and bride, and proverty. The deceivers of the people work the amount of their doos is settled by a com- mischief most readily when the Government promise. Poor proprietors occupy mountain" is weak.

everyone.

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If not get pog. ́measurement can only be completed in one or | bdenity made.; The Memorandum of Hart is two years. The magistrates, tax-collectors,ply and waiting in treihful statement, As village constables, and persons in their commanded, I have consulted with my fellow. employ in workmen, would be subjected to that he has sent up his memorial: Heaks me Viceroys. Vicaroy Yuan. Shih-kai telegraphs very great, trouble if a new measurement to do the same. This with tears of sincerity |(rucha Sir Robert Hart proposes) | now do.-A, G, D. News,

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