Thus, as it happened, I had at command practically unlimited resources when I was asked to finance the cause of reform in China.

The wretched lot of the Chinese Nation had always appealed to my sympathies.

Some hundreds of millions of the most industrious and peace-loving people in the world have been exploited for centuries by a predatory caste.

Given a chance to expand, freed from the shackles of the Manchus, the Chinese, in my opinion, contain the elements which go to form a great race.

But the Manchus held them in bondage, body and soul, and, so powerful is self-interest, there has never been an Emperor or statesman who strove to elevate the masses who was not mercilessly assassinated as soon as he allowed his intent to become known.