MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1927.
DEMOCRACY."
Liberty And Equality
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Insufficient."
SUN YAT-SEN'S LECTURES.
Trade Union "Lessons- For China.
'OTHER COUNTRIES' STRUGGLES REVIEWED,
In the third of the newly published second lecture series, the lite Dr. Sun Yat-sen deals with the "insufliciency" of liberty and
THE CHINA 'MAIL
LONDON BANK INVOLVED.
have this object in view. Tano CHEQUE MYSTERY. Kun and Wu P'ei-fu profess re- publican sentiments when they talk of unification by farce. But at the back of their minds they intend, should they be successful, to aim at absolute power. Did not Yuan Shik-k'al profess to
Care
Paris.
Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL.”
Entertainments.
Rond to Yesterday,"
August 1—Queen's Theatre: "The
August 1-World Theatre: “A Woman of the World."
A £64,250 cheque mystery involv be a Republican, and yet he made ing a London bank is being investi himself Emperor? Who cangated by the Paris police, guarantee that this will not hap- Three persons have already been pen again? It is this thirst for detained in connection, with the
August 1-Star Theatre, Kow- absolute power, that we must affair.. They M. Maurice Joon; "The Clash of the Wolves," eradicate.
Maatti, of the Société Fonciere, de
August 2-Concert by Miss V. Calendos, a French private bank Capell and her Company of ama- It is incorrect to begin, as our Mac. Marguerite Montazel, a pretty tear entertainers the "J-Pane." young students of foreign war widow; and M, Georges Man-
August 3-4-Josef Borissoff. equality alone as the basis of true democracy, drawing lessons from doctrines do, with liberty and lelet, the widow's lover, who was world famous violinist performa į
equality. We shall find that these the chief accountant of the Société
his 100th concert, at the Theatre things only occur as a result of Fonciere de Caleados.
The Midland (Overseas) Bonk, of Royal. City Hall, 9.15 p.m. a democratic system; and that London, in April last received two August 4-5-6-Pot-pourri enter- based on slavery as in Greece penred to emanate from the Banque optimists at Royal Naval Canteen not an incomplete democracy alleged transfer letters which an- tainment by the Wild Swan Co- and Rome and America of the de l'Union Parisienne on behalf of Theatre, 8.30 each evening.
August GCharles Chamier pre-
history to support his contention.
Reviewing the growth of Trade Unionism, the Father of the Republic refers to the danger of restricting leadership entirely to men who themselves are workers. Such a policy, he stated, is due to a false conception of Equality..
WHAT IS EQUALITY.
The third of the new series of lectures is as follows:
You will understand why the nations of Europe excepting England have abolished distinc- tions of rank while in Russia they have gone beyond this and abolished the hierarchy of Wealth also.
America's "Colour" Problem.
colonies
early 19th century, but a true one of its clients, M. Pierre Dor-
ferre. This bank was asked for sents "Our Cabaret," in a series of
of the transfer to the Westminster intimate Revues, beginning with (Foreign) Bank £64,250 to the "Cocktails," at the Star Theatre, account of a M. Pierre Dorfevre. Kowloon, 9.30 p.m.
democracy. So we see that an investigation of the meaning Democracy will involve these things as well.
Trades Unions' Growth.
The order was carried out. As August 6, 8-Benno Moiseivistch. Hoon as it learned of the operation, world-renowned planist, gives his the Banque de l'Union Parisienne recitals at the Theatre Royal, 0.15
at a represcatative to London top.m. report that the alleged transfer August 22--Social Service for letters were bogus.
Service men on the roof of St. The bank at once took proceed-Peter's Y.M. Chr.
with the result that M. iars,
August 8-Concert by Leu Moatti was arrested.
Podolsky, famous pianist, and Vera M. Dorfevre, a customer of the Mirova, premiere danseuse, Queen's
August 4-5-Household furniture, i
Now we can see how it is that the fight for liberty and equality in Europe and America has re- sulted in a number of abuses. The reason is that their democratic system is incomplete and they are beginning to see that they not be found when the police look-
| Société Fonciere de Culeados, could Theatre, 9.30 p.m. must fight for democracy as well. ed for him at the address he had Lammert's Auctions. With regard to America. The A fight means organisation and given. So far no such person can pictures, curios, etc., of the Inte American
revolted they have secured the right to be traced, against the English Government organise: so we see growing up The examining magistrate, M.Mrs. M. J. D. Stephens, No. 5, Peak because they were oppressed political parties and Labour Genty, has found that letters weit- Roud, 11 a.m.
September 15 Valuable pro- more harshly than the Unions. The latter are the most ten by M. Doricvre bore a remark-
Messra. Lammerts' Sales Room, 8,1 Ing of Mme. Marguerite Montazel. Duddell Street. 3 p.m. people of England were, and they important organisations of the able resemblance to the handwritperties in the New Territories, at resented this unequality of treat- present time. They grew up who, like M. Montti, pleads com
their in- after the Revolutions in which|plete innocence. ment. They secured
Her lover, Mr. Mantelet, has de- dependence after eight years of the liberty of association was warfare. But the American re- won. How did this come about?clared that 1. Moatti paid the £64,280 to M. Dorfevre" in his pre- public which resulted was 2 In the beginning the labouring sence, he himself blotting the signa Republic of Whites which gave classes were ignorant, and with- ture which the supposed M. Dor- equality only to the Whites and out foresight not realising the fovre wrote upon the receipt.. denied it to the coloured races. inequality of their position or The Blacks were treated As the harshness with which they. slaves contrary to the laws of were treated by the Capitalists; their constitution und the terms just like the slaves in America.
even
►
Peace in China must come
of their Declaration of Independ. It was only when disinterested soon.-Marshal Chang Tse-lin.
ence. They treated the blacks
outsiders called attention to their
like cattle and made them work inferior position and their hard-
Meetings.
August 2-Water Polo Assoc in- tion Meeting at Victoria Recreation Club, 6.p.m.
August 18 Meeting of Creditors of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Taxicab Co., Lid, Liquidators i Office. 3. Queen's Road Central, H. K. noon.
MiscellaneouK.
John's Cathedral Hall, 8.30 p.m.
August 6-Whist drive at St.
August 8-Social for Service men at St. Peter's Y.M. Club House. August 13-Moplight bathing picnic under the buspices of St.
August 20-Whist drive at St. John's Cathedral Hall.
Let me on this
occasion compare our theory of democracy with the French conception of equality. The Europeans fought for equality just as they did for liberty. In fact they regarded equality as the more important inasmuch as real liberty could not exist without it.. The Euro- pean thinkers regarded equality as a natural right. Let us con- sider this conception and get it clear. In practice there is not and never has been any equality in nature unless it is the level surface of water. A railway line may be regular but not the coun- try it runs through. This flower may have similar petals but they lose their likeness under the microscope. No one leaf on a tree is just like another, and no tree is just like another, Where each individual is unlike the others we can hardly talk of absolute equality. In fact men are by nature unequal and with the organisation of governments and the rise of monarchs this nequality became more emphas ised. Thus arose artificial us distinct from natural unequality. Literature was published set- began to spring up all over the The fact that China is so What this artificial unequality ting forth, the hardships suffered world. Their weapon against oppressed economically by for- Was can best be illustrated by by the slaves. At that time the their opponents was ΠΟΥ Ceigners and loses a hundred and consideration of the
"THIRD DEGREE" METHODS, various Northern States where slaves operation or "the Strike." This twenty million dollars a year is grades into which society was were not kept favoured the is a more deadly weapon even due to the badness of the
In a case heard in the Appeal divided: Emperor, Prince, abolition of slavery: The South than the rifle. For if workmen Chinese Government which pre- Court at Brooklyn, counsel argued Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, where were the slave worked resolve on #L general strike vents our economic recovery.that the conviction of Frank Puglisi Baron and Common People. plantations opposed it in their against the State or against the Nearly half this loss is due to the for robbery should be set aside on own interests. The Americans Capitalists, the results make adverse balance of trade and falls the ground that the admissions! used to bring negroes from themselves felt all over the coun- on the workers because China's made by Puglisi had been forced Africa just as, not many years try more surely than does a war. factories do not prosper. Now the beating of the prisoner by de-
from him by the "third degree"—| ago, the Europeans used to take They have this power because Chinese workers draw the lowest tectives after his arrest. "There is Chinese to America and the certain talented persons who wages in the world, and they not a police-station in the city" South Seas. The southern states were not themselves labourers work the longest hours of any said counsel. "which is not equip- maintained that these negroes were constituted leaders and How is it then that Chinese made ped with lengthe of rubber hose for were of the nature of capital and guides and have shown the work- goods cannot compete with For beating prisoners." they could not free them without ers how to organise themselves eign imports? Why should our the beating of the man, and said compensation; a negro being and how to arrange a strike and manufacturers lose five hundred that any rough treatment he had worth some tive or six thousand with this weapon to make them- millions a year? Because of the received was due to his attempt to dollars. Lack of the necessary selves a power in society. funds made this solution impos- sible; and feeling grew stronger and stronger until it boiled over in the American Civil War which
which is
in return for nothing but food. ships, and awoke them to a sense
By and by feeling against this of these and made them organise without good government nothing Peter's Y.M. Club. grew stronger and stronger to resist the noblemen and can be done. amongst right-minded men.
capitalists that Labour Unions
Workers' Leadership, But now the labourers finding
Government Indictment.
The detectives involved denied
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A "False Conception.” When the oppression of the upper classes grew beyond bear ing, Revolution broke out with the destruction of this artificial unequality as its object. Now those who had usurped the ruling power had fortified their position by the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings, a doctrine which was accepted by the ignorant
weakness of our Government. If escape. Counsel replied that populace; and our doctrine of the
our government were strong Puglisi could not have attempted! natural right to liberty and
enough to keep this sum in the flight, as he was between two off-j equality was invented by students of sociology as a counterblast to
country, then we should have five cers in a motor-car and maraeled to one. He asserted that prisoner's it. When this became the ac- was the greatest war which had themselves with this influence hundred millions more every injuries included two broken sib's. cepted belief and attempts were ever taken place up to that time have of their own accord adopted year to spend on bread. If the The court reserved its decision.
Government was strong enough In connection with this case it made to bring it into relation and cost hundreds of thousands the doctrine of equality. In to impose a high protective tariff, is recalled here that Mrs. Buth with every day life, the result of lives. It was in essence a fight England and France as a conse- it could keep these foreign im- Snyder, accused with Judd Gray of was a false conception of equality for liberty but not for the libertyquence the labour unions once ports out and our workmen would murdering the former's husband, which depressed all individuals of the fighters. For the negroes established have tended to drive get the money instead of the asked the court to delete her con- to the sume level. The fact is had been slaves so long that they out of the union those leaders foreigners, and our home indus- feusion of the crime from the evid- that men are naturally unequal in had no interest in anything but who are not themselves workers. tries would flourish. The Hanków had secured the same by question- ence on the ground that the police capacity and intellect and that food, clothes and houses. They This tendency has been growing workmen say politics do not ing her for long hours at a stretch, though all start equal there is no had no idea of struggling to free for the past twenty or thirty concern them. So long as they preventing her going to sleep, and equality in practice; otherwise themselves, and so when the years and is due to the fact that hold this view, they will not roughly awakening her when she society could not progress but North won and the negroes were the workers have followed the insist that the Government in-dozed from exhaustion. rather would retrograde if we freed, they found that they had wrong road and adopted the false thrust everyone down to the level lost the certainty of food, cloth doctrine regarding equality. As pose a high tariff, boycott foreign of the lowest. True equality ing and houses and for this a result the workers are left goods and support home indus- tries; and until this Le done,
THE TSETSE FLY. not incompatible with reason they hated and abused the without competent leadership and progress is political equality and Northerners and President Lin- their unions large and important Chinese industries will not grow nothing else. This is an artificial coin, just as the opponents of the as they are, are little by little up and workmen will find no
work to do. Is this the way to of nine, including five sefentists,
Dr. Arthur Torrance, with a party: conception and has nothing to do Revolution hate and abuse the losing their influence. In China
This argument will sail for Africa next, September, with the natural capacities of Kuomintang. To-day though too recently and especially since get bread? individuals.
some negroes have learnt the the revolution large numbers of proves that the workers are too under the auspices of the Smith- blessings of liberty there
trade unions have grown up and ignorant to lead themselves. They sonian Institution, Washington, and do not realise the connection be-several New York institutes, to Comparisons With China. still some
who curse Lincoln many of their leaders are not tween bread and economics and study the teetae fly from the medi- just as their fathers did. These themselves workers. We cannot
cal standpoint. The itinerary of Now it is only two or three two events-the struggle for in- assert that all these leaders are
Government.
the expedition is as follows: From hundred years since Europe over-dependence against England and looking for the good of the
Working For Ideal. Soccondee on the Gold Coast to threw the feudal system: and the fight for the freedom of the workers: some of them pretend to
Kumasi by train, then overland in even now relics of it remain.
To sum up, Democracy is the
automobiles to Timbuctoo.
From But in China the feudal system negroes are the two most glorious do so while they fill their own important thing and includes Timbuctoo the party will portage episodes in the history of Amer- pockets there are not a few liberty which by itself may be down the Niger River to Kabka, in an end two thousand tea or indeed in the history of Such. But there are also a num-good or bad. years ago, and liberal ideas te- the world.
Nigeria, then to Yola, on Lake! ber who do really exert them-
}} French came familiar. Nevertheless
Equatorial seives on behalf of the labourers: three types into which mankind through the elephant country to
I have spoken elsewhere of Tchad,
Africa. Next the journey will be during the past two hundred years Europe has not only over-
A "Wrong Basis."
and it is the business of the may be grouped; men of originat- Albertville, via Stanleyville. The taken but has passed beyond Revolution in France began later which is which. At present the stand, and men who are ignorant. found Livingstone, on Lake Tan- labourers to distinguish clearly ing intellect, men who can under-party will go to Ujijl, where Stanley China in this respect..
than in America and continued doctrine of equality is doing harm the first There is
are expounders, the ganyika, and from this lake they for eighty years before the in China too. I have just seen a second propagandists and the proceed one important dis- French gained their object. But, working class publication which tinction which must be borne in they carried their ideas to ex- prints two mottoes, one is " last those who bring the thing to After some lion hunting the party mind in comparing the state of tremes, trying to enforce equality long coats among our leaders / pass. When these all work to will go to Dar-es-Salaam, affairs in China with that of pre- at the end instead of the begin- and the other "The workers fight gether progress comes swiftly. revolutionary Europe, In Europe ning by depressing all to until three hundred years ago not same level. Now the revolution is the same spirit as that which equality in an ideal to be worked Men are born unequal but only were offices hereditary but even among the common people China had its origin in ideas drove the non workers out of the for. How can we attain this occupations were hereditary as for equality and liberty, but this the European unions are seeking imported from Europe, as a fight European unions; and moreover well. Just as the sons of noble--is not its proper basis. We must influence in politics. For Goy. The selfish who uses his natural PIANO men succeeded their fathers, 80 start with my three. principles ernment is the most important powers to deprive others for his Grand by Dohner and Sohn. Very | the sons of the common people which involve liberty and equali-¡ thing in a state and concerns the owri benefit. He is typical of good tone and touch. Price $850 In China only the Emperor was ty and we shall not run off the happiness of all the people and
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son. So we understand why it
was necessary for the Europeana
rails as the European Revolu-
mistakes we must be familiar
to fight for liberty and equality with their history.
&
and why the same necessity did I have described the wars
This
ideal?
There are two kinds of men.
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