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The Review of Reviews. 



June 1, I'JOe. 



ducts, which must be exported somewhere, but for 

 which, practically, we must find a market in the 

 Far East. ' To raise the standard of the Chinese 

 people one hundred per cent,' says Dr. Josiah 

 Strong, ' is equivalent to the discovery of five new 

 Ameiicas at a time when there are no more lands 

 to be discovered.' '' 



And yet in face of this America has been carrying 

 on a policy that has brought into being the Ameri- 

 can boycott in China. " The nidus of the boycott 

 is in the accumulation of the wTongs of many years, 

 of our mistreatment of an ancient, a proud, a sen- 

 sitive, and a learned people by a nation that once 

 professed to believe that ' all mankind are created 

 free and equal.' This is aggravated by the shame- 

 ful betrayal of American interests in the Hankow- 

 Canton Railway by an American syndicate. The 

 Chinese are now united against us as never before. 

 Those who know tell us that our trade is becoming 



a vanishing quantity. The lives of all Americans 

 in China are in more or less danger ; yet most of 

 us continue, in the language of a German proverb, 

 to ' hold our mouths open, expecting roasted pigetms 

 to fly inside.' Is it too much to say that the .-Ameri- 

 can people as a whole are living in a fool's para- 

 dise?' 



Now we in Australia are closer to the East than 

 is America, and yet we fail to recognise the won- 

 derful possibilities' of that field for trade, while our 

 policy of contempt towards the Chinese, which can 

 hardly provoke a boycott, as our trade is almost 

 inappreciable, may yet provoke an antagonism which 

 in the future may have disastrous results. The cul- 

 tivation of friendly and equal relations with our 

 neighbours is not only the ideal which every nation 

 should strive after, because of its identity with the 

 principle underlying the golden rule, but it is an 

 ideal that has great and far-reaching utilitarian pos- 

 sibilities as well. 



T. C. MuUcr. .V«c Y<iik.\ IFrom •' LalieS U'eckly." 



Big Submarine Boats at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Laid up in Winter Quartere. 



