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Show DEPLORABLE IGNORANCE. No more stinging rebuke has been administered to the United States senate than the following which appeared in a late issue of the Journal of Commerce of New York : But for the transparent insincerity and deplorable ignorance underlying un-derlying the outburst of sympathy for China in the United States senate, one might be tempted to hope that it indicated a disposition disposi-tion to make reparation for years of injustice, and to substitute I for a policy of evasion and false pretense one of resolution and honesty. But China has only too obviously been made a stalking-horse behind which to discharge the shafts of a malignant partisanship to try to hit the president by destroying the work for whose fruition a war-weaiied world is anxiously waiting. The entire debate over Shantung has been conducted on a low level of intelligence, with a reckless disregard of the controlling facts of the relations between China and Japan, and a still more manifest mani-fest neglect of the past attitude and policy of the United States toward the entire subject. If the United States senators did not have back of them a subsidized press, which is powerful and extends from one end of the country to the other, they would be driven from public life by their evident insincerity insin-cerity and deliberate play at politics. The questions involved are too far reaching in their influence on the future of the world to be treated so flippantly by a body of lawmakers lawmak-ers supposed to represent enlightened public opinion, but who stand for the worst in public life. |