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Article FREEMASONRY IN CHINA.* ← Page 8 of 8
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Freemasonry In China.*
those who are here will gradually sell off and leave the island . What guarantee have they that corrupt members of government—though God forbid that there should be corruption among the respectable men who form the Executive—but we ask what guarantee have they that corrupt members of this or any future government may not exercise that peculiar quality known among the Chinese as the squeezing system under threats of an information that they ( the parties squeezed ) belong to
secret societies ? Of course we know that there is no one connected with government who would commit such a crime ; but the Chinese , with their lax views of official integrity , may have a very different opinion . We trust that the European part of the community will declare their abhorrence of this ordinance ; we trust that they will exercise their privileges , and lay an address before the throne , declaring that such laws
are incompatible with the character of the British government—that they will ruin this young colony—that our legislators appear to be haunted by imaginary dangers—that such tyrannical powers should not be intrusted to one man , nor to any body of men—powers by which , without charging the party with crime , they may ruin and disgrace him for life . It is time the voice of the British community in China should bo heard , either before the parliament of their native country , or before
Her Majesty in Council . We do not believe that Her Majesty will give her assent to this ordinance—certainly not , if a representation of its disastrous influences is sent home—but if unopposed , ancl accompanied with uncontradicted accounts of the state of the colony , resuling from imaginary fears , the ordinance may be sanctioned , ancl the ruin of Hongkong consummated . " It would seem that the Editor of the Hongkong Gazette does not
consider the " Triad Society " to be so dangerous as represented b y Doctors Milne and Morrison ; and probably thinks that persuasion would be better than force . We have done our duty by placing the subject before our readers .
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Freemasonry In China.*
those who are here will gradually sell off and leave the island . What guarantee have they that corrupt members of government—though God forbid that there should be corruption among the respectable men who form the Executive—but we ask what guarantee have they that corrupt members of this or any future government may not exercise that peculiar quality known among the Chinese as the squeezing system under threats of an information that they ( the parties squeezed ) belong to
secret societies ? Of course we know that there is no one connected with government who would commit such a crime ; but the Chinese , with their lax views of official integrity , may have a very different opinion . We trust that the European part of the community will declare their abhorrence of this ordinance ; we trust that they will exercise their privileges , and lay an address before the throne , declaring that such laws
are incompatible with the character of the British government—that they will ruin this young colony—that our legislators appear to be haunted by imaginary dangers—that such tyrannical powers should not be intrusted to one man , nor to any body of men—powers by which , without charging the party with crime , they may ruin and disgrace him for life . It is time the voice of the British community in China should bo heard , either before the parliament of their native country , or before
Her Majesty in Council . We do not believe that Her Majesty will give her assent to this ordinance—certainly not , if a representation of its disastrous influences is sent home—but if unopposed , ancl accompanied with uncontradicted accounts of the state of the colony , resuling from imaginary fears , the ordinance may be sanctioned , ancl the ruin of Hongkong consummated . " It would seem that the Editor of the Hongkong Gazette does not
consider the " Triad Society " to be so dangerous as represented b y Doctors Milne and Morrison ; and probably thinks that persuasion would be better than force . We have done our duty by placing the subject before our readers .