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SHANGHAI TAMMANY'S INJURY TO
THE KUOMINTANG CAUSE.
WHAT THE PARTY HAS TO DO TO SAVE
ITS CREDIT.
IRRESPONSIBLE RASCALS BATTENING ON SUCCESS
{BY GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY.]
O can almost disregard the firracial policy as an error af} judgment, cr similar
mistakes QUEEN'S THEATRE
which any new Government might maky van pressed for funds by rapacious militarlits and whose verzi existence is constantly being threatened. But to my mind, the{ existence of the Government should not be as important to these IRĖN aa the reputation of the Kuomin- tang, as the danger which comes from a disillusionment of the people, who will submit to the militarista vilast but strongest
Drastic Remedy Wanted.
The remedy is very simple but drastic; the 1st, 4th and 7th armies are the remnants of the 'original | Nationalist Army, which is trust" worthy and which can be relied upon to ba decent to the people it under strict orders from their commanders. These three armies should be brought into Kiangsu and. Chekiang and placed in charge of the provinces under the civilian control of the Political Bureau of the Party, which exercises exccu- tive powers under the Kuomintang constitution. The Commander-in- chief should, be limited in his ac tivities so that he is concerned only with the management of the army, and the conduct of the wars which apparently are not yet to cease.
Should the Nanking Government upon nationalism, democracy, and fail, the Nacionalist cause, will be a socialization of public welfare, set back a generation. For 15 years in other words, upon the Three rather than go through another men have suffered and sacrificed. People's Principles which Dr. Sun half year of prime at the hands of themselves that Chins might be Yat Sen advocated. The Kuominthe Shanghai Tambagy come unified and might take its tang, then, in its essentials, sought place among the family of nations to create here such a state as we as an equal. For 15 years, an idea | know in the countries from which has been motivating men to make we have come. If they have failed, of this huge and backward land, one can only view their failure a modern state, a compact, great from the standpoint of the enor mity of their task, with sympathy A visionary as many believe, Dr.and with a hope that China will Sun Yat Sun to have been, he saw not continue indefinitely as a the problem in its essentials, name anarchie entity. ly, as an abandonment of feudalism Failure to Closs to Succasa. and д A concentration apan But the tragedy of this failure material, industrial developments. is that it came so close to success, He wrote his volume on the "In And it is not impossible at this ternational Development of moment that it can succeed, if only China," before the Russian contact the leaders will forget what they and it is a truer picture of the men- call Government and think more tality of Sun Yat Sen chan his of the Cuase which propelled them **Three People's Principles," | during this decade and ́s ́half. which in the unfinished and artem--
In Nanking, the division is poraneous form we now have them, clearly between the Kuomintang are intellectually somewhat scatter and the Shanghai Tammany, which ed and incoherent. He never com-I had previously described as the pleted his Third Principle, which Ningpo gang, but which includes would have defined his economic many persons who are not natives ideas more fully. But what we of Ningpo The Kuomintang con-
Thirdly, all vexatious financial have of the Doctor's writing makes įsists of men who have devoted so it clear that he sought to help the much of their lives to revolution measures should be frankly dis carded as an error of judgment, people through material develop ary organization and to the theory but not from the Kuomintang ments, through trade and com- of change that they have little ac- standpoint, as an error of princi merce, railroads and the improre tus experience with the working ple. Trade and commerce in the ment of waterways And we know of the machinery of Government, remaining south-of-the Yangtae that he was against the feudal | párticularly in such mixed provinces should be encouraged by militarista and that he never made metropolis AX Shanghai. To the Government and protected by an exception of friends when they achieve speed in certain political, were in the wrong
phases of establishing themselves in this part of the country, the Kue mintang had to permit these men to asist them. That was fatal. A fiitle knowledge of the political history of Kiangsu ́aqd Chekiang *
Secondly, the Shanghai Tam- many should be disbanded and forced to leave this port
the soldiers so that there is a move- ment of goods and economic ac- tivity among the people. In this way, the Government will receive ample funds from the naual sources, funds which were sufficient
condition during the past ten
surplus to fight wars of expansion. years and which gave the rulers s
Many Upright Men In Party. Alongside the Doctor laboured many honourable and self-sacrifle ing mes. "I know man who are sa sociated with the Nanking Govern, went to-day who are poverty-strip since the days of Feng Kuo Chang, to keep these provinces in excellent | ken, who have nothing to pravidla | would have saved the Kuomintang - for the day when they may gain from so dangerous a compromise, be hunted creatures, who have been for these Shanghai men are always
Finally, every emphasis should sa patriotic as a Garibaldi, who helping everybody and they in-
be placed upon Dr. Sun's Third might have basked in Peking's sun variably help themselves more.
Principle, the Nurturing of the in the heyday of militarism and Shanghai Tammany's Interests.
Welfare of the People," so that the put away their tidy sums, but 'who
They have their own interests to people are satisfied with the Kuo- instead starved and hüngered and
protect, namely, opium, kipuap- slaved for the Nationalist Cause, ping, the criminal classes and then fail because of acperior mili mintang. Even if the party should
Theas men were Nationalists when every force of selfishness and vice it was unpopular and dangerous. which thrives in every large city will think well of it and the tary prowess elsewhere, the people These men were the followers of the the world over. Under the old Nationalist Cause will not suffer Doctor before he became a defed "UN AIR EMBAUME" figure, whom he was laughed at and feudal lords in Nsaking and the opprobrium of subordination to
ridiculed. These men are to-day guilelessly labouring for the restrained because they were known the Shanghai Tammay, Grand Model
Nationsliet Cause, while that and understood. The. Kuomintang. which they call a Nationalist Gor- leaders childishly accepted them as
shamelessly allies, as reformed characters, as It will be noted that I have said stolen by the same tricksters who men who honestly saw the evils of nothing of foreigners or foreige were the cabal about Lu Yung their ways and were helping a good affairs in this connection. That is Hsiang, Ho Feng Lin, Chi Hsieh cause. It is now the task of the
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When one discusses this question Party must rehabilitate itself with with Kuomintang leaders, one finds its own people first. Foreign an- Expectations of the People,
mixed reception. Sometimes, The masses of the Chinese people there is a tendency to defend the tagonism would be removed in a have been worked up to a feverish deeds of these men because to ad- day if there were peace and order expectation of great things from mit frankly that they have acted and good business in these pro- the Nationalist Cause. The person without consulting the Government vinces. who says that there is no pat is, in fact, a repudiation of the
Foreigners care "nothing riotism at all in China, has not Government. At other times, they about Chinese politics, except witnessed the enthusiasm of are denounced as the deeds of
academically. The Chinese . Bit students and young workers for responsible rascale who are batten-when they think that the foreigners the Kuomintang cause in the early ing upon the success of the Ku Welcome as a feeling throughout the tions cannot be irresponsible. Men the foreigners are opposed to
days of the party's recent successes, mintang. But men in official poai- youth of the country that at last who can issue orders, which are nationalism and to the rise of the something had been engendered carried out, cannot be irrespon-1 which would carry them through sible. Every deomt man in to success:
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Man permitted them-Nanking Government is resp the Chinese people to equality. There
many of their principles, because ter is personally responsible for suffer if China were able to achieve they felt that the sacrifice was every one of his powers which they a revision of treaties and an equal worthy of the inevitable success usurp in the name of the Composition in the world But the im- of their eaUIE. And to the youth mander-in-chief
Provisional Court Shambling.
of the land, success was inevitable.
portant foreigners and surely their The slogan-fed armies of the Kuo-
Governments stand squarely behind mintang would: march though the For instance, the Dalbank in- country and the feudally trained volved the Ministries of Foreign Bir Austen Chamberlain's Christ soldiers of the militarista would | Affairs, Justice and Finance; The mas Day Note which seems to have scatter like sheep before a storm. North China Daily News, involved been forgotten in the welter of mis And so it happened for many the Ministries of Foreign Affairs
These fortune, since it was enunciated months. Excesses were committed, and-- Communications. outrages were perpetrated, injus-ministries are headed by men whose If the Kuomintang can achieve tices were known-but to all these, reputations are such as to evoke peace and order and lawful living, fine and decent men shut their eyes. | confidance and a feeling that here if it can provide any spart of The Cause must succeed and every is a Government which will funs | Ching with good Government, sensibility must be strained to tion honestly and beneficially to general willingness to be friends make the success possible.
the people of China. The powers with it, which was so evident last Then came the rape of the move of these ministries were usurped by December, will again be evident." ment, by the Communista in Hame the Shanghai Tammany in both But it is up the Kuo
to
the
kow and now the theft of the Cause cases and in many more which can mintang. The Party must show
by the Shanghai Tammany. Who be sited notoriously in the sham vitality, it must be able to fight ther the Nationalist Government in bling of the Provisional Court. its own militarists and their
gang Nanking lasts or perishes can now Shall these men of outstanding sters as it is fighting those of be of slight interest. The tragedy character and ability permit the North. It must inspire the Chinese of the moment is the danger to the selves to become the show-windows people with confidence kelare it can Nationalist Cause. For, no matter for the Bhanghai Tammany1 Are hope to win the good-will of for whether one is a die-hard or not, they ready to say that the Kuamin eigners. It must prove its the fact remains that territory the tang, the party of moderniem of superiority to the feudalism of the size of China, can not remain westernism, in China can achieve North in fact rather than by wholly outside the political com nothing more than the crimesalogans, If the Kuomintang fails cept of the modern world and which the Shanghai Tammany are to do these now, there may not soon states to-day base their existence perpetrating in this city
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