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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30ın, 1912.
The situation in China, as it develops under the Republican form of govern- mont, affords but little ground for optimism. Its main festures point to s steady growth of reaction, most marked. in the North, against that form of gov ernment, and to the increasing ssccnd- oncy of military elemont, itself semi-in- dependent, in several provinces whilst the soparaist tendencies of the South are becoming more marked every day. These things have been foreseen by dispassionate observors since the first success of the ro volutionary movement. In the light of all recent history, they were practically nevitable, it only because the social and economic factors at the root of China's unrest cannot possibly be remedied by any change in the outward symbols or designation of the executive authority,
For half a century or ruore the ad- ministration of the Chinese Empire bas persisted by virtue of the Dragon Throne's traditional prestige-of a dinin ishing, but still reaf, momentum of au- thority. The revolution has destroyed that prestige without producing the con- structive genius requisite to supply some thing equally effective in its place. At Shanghai and other centres of democra tic activity everything goes to show that,
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of first Republican vanguard, in the mutual suspicions and constant recriminations between the Tung Men Hui and the Kung Ho Tang, and in the attitude of the mili tary commanders, who are evidently am- bitious, and threaten to conspire, to re- gulate State affairs. Young China, and particularly Cantonese Young Chine, is
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the
in their natures, they can be held toge thor only by a proportionately strong feeling of reasoning reverence for a rulor and, if the sentiment of sh ordination becomes enfeebled, without. self-control gaining in strength propor tionately, there arises a danger of social dissolution. The vicious circle of na- tional inefficiency, which widened under the last Manchu Emperors, remains un- broken, and has, indeed, been enlarged, by reason of the lawlessness born of the revolution: the problem, which still harasscs this long-suffering race, is: How can a strong New China be created by an official class which continues to prove itself politically and morally generate f
unre-
DIFFICULTIES AND DANGERS. Undoubtedly, the most significant fea- ture of the present situation lies in the assertion and exercise of political power by the commanders of the various mili- tary forces scattered throughout the pro- vinces by the very men who, during the past eight months, have signally failed to maintain discipline and to subor dinate their personal interests to the com monweal. It will be remembered that, at the beginning of the revolution, it was one of these forces, the Manchu contin- gent, which dictated the 19 articles of the Constitution which the Throne and the National Assembly acompted so ignominiously in November. Since then the Army has been busy, not in protecting life and property, in reorganizing ite drill and equipment on a uniform basis,
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but in clamouring for privileges and publicly discussed in China. On the China that the Powers whosn interest and pay, and in securing its loot. To-day,other hand, he is certainly entitled to professed desire it is to increase China's with its prospects of regular pay rendered sympathy and lenient judgment, in that national efficiency and to preserve her uncertain by the Government's failure to many of his political acts have been territorial integrity would be well ad- obtain either recognition or loans from forced upon him by the foreign Powers' vised to extend moral and financial sup the foreign Powers, most of its leaders (to him) unexpected attitude of neutral-port upon terms to Yuan as the bestPARKLET SYPHON are evidently inclined to support Yuanity and by their failure to afford him chance of avoiding long years of anarchy, Shih-k'ai, the one man capable, with the the financial support which he had every It an open secret that this would have support, of improving the nation reason to expect upon assuring the Pra- been done in December last had it not the one man for whom the men who commiership under the Monaroby. Con- bern for the opposition brought to bear prise the northern troops retain some of sistency of policy and loyalty of purpose by the foreign mercantile communities at the traditional respect. Their attitude have never been rigorously demanded of the Treaty Ports, and notably by the is, no doubt, to be attributed to intelli-China's statesmen, and there is every rea- great British firms at Shanghai, These, gent self-interest rather than to patriot son to credit Yuan Shib-kai with a naturally fearing that any support given ism or public spirit, but it is none the patriotic desire to deliver the country, to the cause of the Monarchy would lead less significant. It means that China whether as a Monarchy or a Republic, to destruction of their property by the has, in fact, evolved a Military League, out of all its afflictions. If he can guard Republicans, to the killing of Europeans vers similar to that which is attempting himself against the senssins of the Tung in the interior, and to a general cessation at this moment to dominate the Govern Men Hui and other advanced politiof trade, brought all their influence to ment of Turkey, but lacking in the cians, and if he can secure, on terms, the bear against Yuan and the Monarchy; patriotism and internal discipline which steady support of Li Yuan Hung, Huang its weight was sufficient to determine the have hitherto distinguished the Ottoman Hsing, and other powerful commanders, Powers concerned in a policy of benevo Army.
he may be able to evolve order out of the lent but futile neutrality. In declining,
The position of Yuan Shih-k'si as Pre-present chaos and to restore that whole-at the last critical moment, to supply Yuan sident is one of increasing difficulty and some reverence for constituted authority with the funds which would, no doubt,
danger; the manifesto which he issued to without which the government of China have saved the Throne last Dreem General Li Yuan-hung and the Prorinis impossible. Whether, as many Chinese ber, the Powers interested in the four cial Tutuhs on June 24th is evidence that profess to believe, he actually aspires to Powers loin negotiations undoubtedly. he himself appreciates the fact. In this be the founder of a new dynasty is an followed the lead of Great Britain, and remarkable document, the President of other matter, and one which in itself tha Republic, whose staunch loyalty to the would not greatly disturb the Chinese Monarchy elicited general admiration six people. 113-5
months ago, is reported to have said
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loft the chief responsibility with the Bri tish Minister. Sooner or later that re sponsibility will have to be faced anew, and with it the risks of definitely sup On reaching middle ago he had become But if Yuan's authority is to be assert-porting a central authority against tho consequences of such a movement upon firmly convinced that the Constitution of ed and supported by the aid of the mili- unruly elements of Young China.
those who, for their own ends, incite the America and France accorded with the ideas tary commanders, the loyalty of their
people to violence. If the revolution has of China's sagos.
To continue to advance foreign capital accomplished nothing else, it has at least of despotism, Republicanism had been the maintenance of their privileges and for the payment of troops, or for the re proved that the masses ear sasily he established, fulfilling his long-cherished the regular provision of their pay. To demption of military notes," would be restrained from attacking the foreigner, desire. He had therefore sworn allegiance ensure these things Yuan must be in a suicidal, for there would be no induce which is precisely what most residents in to the Republic, and it had since been his position to command foreign loans. Toment to reduce the numbers of these China, diplomats excepted; have always duty to see that neither King nor Emperor do this he must satisfy foreign capitaliste marauding bands and no incentive te maintained.
! and the powers behind them that effective proceed with the reorganization of in- reigned. Lately, there had been rumours of his unfaithfulness, rumours that he control of expenditure is guaranteed and tornal taxation for revenue purposes, China's activities and the warfare of The question underlying all Young. wanted to become another Napoleon; these he must be able to impose his authority The merchant classes are now generally parties in the Advisory Council is the ke declared to be due to misunderstanding, in this vital question upon the unruly convinced of the necessity for supervision question of the allocation and use of Furnished or Unfurnished, Electric or to an attempt to servo private ends. elements in the provinces. This practic of loan funds and for a strong policy foreign capital, a sordid matter of per-
Without going back to the events of the ally involves a dictatorship more or less of centralization in matters of national, sonal aims and self-interest, In can be Light and Water, Rents from $25 to $40.00 for coup d'Etat in 1888, there is ample and prolonged, and based on the loyalty of as distinct from local, finance; they per solved either by dictatorial methods or wofurnished, conclusive evidence that Tuan's inveter the troops, and it assumes that the dif- coive, also, the dangers that underlie the by a reasonable compromise, but only by
Apply ete policy of facing both ways has conferences between north and south and the local and provincial loans recently con- POmitted him, heth before and since the claims of the provinces to local autonomy tracted by all manner of more or less ir unswerving firmness where Young China
is concerned. in masters financial can be adjusted. It responsible authorities.
Confronted by a deter abdication of the Manchus, in
The people
at mined policy and reserves of force, which could hardly fail to attract atten- is obvious that serious difficulties mast large have no say in these matters; they bluff and boyish bravado of the student tion and arone suspicion amongst his one more their instinctive class would rapidly subside.
policy, follow- terest are stronger than their instincts of tractability and their respect for autho would be a certain amount of bloodshed, political opponents. ing the traditional lines of Celestial nationalism. On the whole, however, icy, however constituted by the protec: no doubt, but for less than there must be statecraft, has been so instinct with and considering the question from the tion universally accorded, by duplicity as to make it impossible to standpoint of the ultimate welfare of the China's orders, to the lives and property continue. Let it once be understood that
if the present conditions are permitted to HONGKONG HANSARD REPORTS His over- Chinese people, it would soom that of foreigners in all fathom his real intentions.
may be observed Yuan (or any other suitable tures to Sun Yat-sen, before the doclara dictatorship in the hands of an able ad- And in this connection may be country, the central authority in the hands of LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL for
person) can an anti-foreign count on the moral and financial tion of the Republic, his relations with ministrator like Yuan, accustomed to the that if, as seems: possiated by the of the Powers chiefly concerned, and that support General Chang Hsun, his declared opin haftelling of troops, offers the best hope movement should now ion on the irreconcilable differences he of recuperative period and the begin agitators who fellow after Sun Yat Sen Young China'e disruptive tondencias can sreen north and south, and his open rap-nings of reorganization fairly general be neither hesitation nor delay in de and General Huang Heing, there, should ture with Tang Shao-yi and the Tung The opinion Men Hui, all these are well known and amongst the property owning classes in Enitely fixing the responsibility for the
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