The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-09

full products. I feel that if China makes 1,O01 demands, and every one IS based on justice. that it implies that 1,001 acts of injustice have been committed against China"
 Mrs. Lynn w Wilson. president of the Bridgeport League of Women Voters, opened the meeting and in troduced Mrs. James T. Rourke as permanent chairman. Dr. William
 Horace Day delivered the invocation.
 and. the opening speech was that of
 Nf- Cummings.
 the meeting by the following speak
 CT, pr. Yum Slang Tsao, who said:
 MT. Cummings has expressed a
 wish that the conference would turn
 out to be a great success. Just be-
 fore I proceed l want to give you a
 note of warning. The conference may
 be dispersed a little too early. Some
 of the delegates attending the Wash
 ington conference have said that the
 conference has already achieved great
 things. hope the ladies of this
 country and the men will support a
 movement to see that the conference
 doesn't end until its real purpose has
 been achieved"
 Dr. Tsao's countenance wore a broad
 smile when Mrs. .F1eck's resolutions
 were read protesting against prema-
 ture adjournment.
 pr. Tsao referred, to the Washing ton conference as continuation or
 conference,
 teen points enunciated by Woodrow
 Wilson were like fourteen candles H. Illuminating the darkness of Europe
 and asserted that the fourteen can
 dies had been hidden under a bush
 eI in the peace of Versailles. He
 alluded to the fact that the United
 States and China had both refused
 to endorse the Treaty of Nersa1iles,
 beaming from the torch held aloft by
 the Statue of Liberty in New York
 harbor yF2uid inspire the delegates
 who came to Washington at the iiiNi-
 tation of President Harding
 Alludine to the fact that the
 Washington conference had begun
 with prayer, -Dr. Tsao said ne hope9
 that before the conference aa9ourheo ecu that the delegates might be rem1noeo of the high moral tone in Whlcn s Lne conference had begun, a splrAt IL was gradually losing ,s come to Washington with all her cards on the table, intending nelthei to indtct one nation or arralgn aI other He expressed thankIulILsss that America had given China thus opportunity to present her case. anu answering the criticism tnat .t was presenting many deInahus lo 'Ae conference he said: 5 one demands and everyone or tnSln I5 is based on injustice. then IL ltnPileSS that one thousand anu ,tna = aojnS+ injustice have been coiiiii
 China" .1 c,binese particularly extraterrllorlTa4. T ity, post offices; and cuso1ans Iy. wei coned foreign visitors ana tnaC tue burden China was now asklng pe Irri ed under the heading or eAlr +o to,ia1itv was the result of granting to strangers in China the privilege Gl setfine up their own courts, WhIcii nIiyilege had grown to such an A tent that practically every Vlsisofa eu Cbina from ambassador to pedIar war on the same plane as an alllpds sador in other countries. ,,,,r,
 eTba Chinese postal system was now efficient, pr. dsao tshfcb, China permitted other nations to in China before its own sSS- lem was perfected not only were fou4 hing China of necessary revenue. put ,,Ia,ss unnS sffording means of entry for ,ni1u, and other harmful drugs over which China had no control, He spoke FeeIingly of the forcing Of opium on -hinaf asserting that until 1S41 opium ,-as n1lxnown in that country, and | a,be1 first introduced was referred to IS foreign medicine. Dr. Tsao pro ,ested at the prevalent Occ1dental view of China as a nation moraIIy Ienraved that wants to smoke opium, | and declared vehemently: Opium l was sent into China at the muzzle or | he gun and the point or the payonet. ! The forcing of opium on China was 1! part of the initiation fee China has paid for the introduction to Western | civilization, and the bill so far has amounted to three hundred and ten | billions of dollars"
 Referrins to the limitation of | Chinese tariffs to 5%o imposed by the | great powers. Dr. Tsao declared that | ,ne of the chief motives of this 1imita- l ion was to prevent China from rais- | ng a tariff wall against opium, and | asked the audience if Chfna's demand | Justice. Dr. Tsao also took up the | 21 demands made by Japan on China | n deail.
 Miss Anna Rhodes, the next speaker, | paid tribute to the spirit of simplicity ! md humility in which President liar ling called the conference, and stated | hat the difficulties outlined by Dr. | Tsao were only a few lof the many | hat beset the conference. Miss Rhodes said in part: America is ,led ged to peace. The advisory coun- ,ii the American delegation to the | on limitation armament | 1as received petitions on the subject | If armament limitation, and of these while II, ,000.957 want limitation of ar nament and took hhe trouble to write l o the conference and say so. There [ peaks the voice of the nation. Of he replies so far tabulated 395,000 l ,dd favor the suppression of the sub were received for the abolition of the rubmar'fne without cooperation of | ,the. nations The suppression of | aoy asking other nations to oin with us is the demand of America. .G5,7oO communications were received Lsking for the abolition of the use of ,oison gas fin warfare. and 19 op-