Show COMMERCE WITH CHINA I I Three Conditions Necessary for Other Nations to Win I Washington Sept 2LMr Squlers the United States secretary of legation I at Peking has forwarded to the State l department under date of August 1st si report from Consul Martin at Chin Kiang In which Mr Martin sets out three conditions which he believes to ba absolutely essential to success in commercial com-mercial relations with China lIr foreigners ever build up a large trade in China It must be with the help I of the Chinese themselves and this can be done only by 1 treating them with re In China specU No American can HVo long without seeing that foreigners are inclined to treat the Chinese negllA = nth nt-h even when their Interests would seem to Indicate un opposite course The Chinese resent this I 21hc entire country should be open to foreign trade and a judicial system should be formulated to meet the re qulrementB of all foreigners In the empire em-pire Must of the trouble In tho past has arisen from differences of opinion as to what punishment would best sub serve the ends of Justice 3ihe liken should be abolished In favor of some other system of taxation taxa-tion that would secure the required revenue The liken as now operated I regard as the most perfect method oC extracting all conceivable profit from trade Its tendency Is to localize trade by hedging goods about with such expenses be moved penses that they cannot When commodities can be transported from one end of China to the other without any tax save the freights the whole nation will teem with activity |