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Later the la Kwan Treaty was made, and by this the foreigners
were empowered to established factories in our country. Then
the Sine-English Treaty was renewed in the 28th year of
Kwong Sui (1902) and the Sino-Japanese Treaty made in the
29th year (1903), which again deprived China of many
privileges, and under which extra-territoriality developed
rapidly and the Concessions were extended greatly,
aggravating the danger to the livelihood of our people. In
spite of all the rich territories and industrious population
we have, our country has been reduced to poverty, and nobody
can get any enjoyment out of his life. Our workmen work as
hard as horses and bullocks for the foreigners, yet the
Imperialists kill our people as they like. For instances
we can quote the incidents of May 30th at Shanghai, of June
22nd at Sha-ki and that which recently took place in Wanhsien
And all these acts committed by the Imperialists were intend-
ed to stir up trouble. In fact they have been treating us
as savages. Is it not intolerable? In view of our position being so precarious, we cannot but resort to revolution. All the militarists can do is to squeeze money from the people,
without giving them any protection. On the contrary, they
act as tame dogs to the Imperialists and as their tools for
oppressing our people. Therefore our race cannot survive in
the present world, unless we unite ourselves to overthrow
Imperialism, In order to overthrow Imperialism, we must fir-
st ove throw the Militarists who are tools of the Imperialists
Now our Revolutionary Army under the directions given by Mr.
Sun, leader of the Kuomintang, China, has overthrown a
portion of the Militarists. We have won great successes,
and before long we shall accomplish our National Revolution. I pity my fellow-country women very much. They have been
subjected