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can be counted as militarists.
If I have no Imperialists
behind me, nobody can charge me with being a militarist,
and without the support of new Imperialists, no new militar- ists can be brought to birth. I can assure you that I can
never have Imperialists behind me, and I am confident
that I shall never enter the ranks of the militarists.
As I have just said already, our Kuomintang has
its own peculiar traditions and principles. The principles determined upon by cur President are expressed in "The
Three Aspects of Democracy". Our Revolution is based
on these principles and our system of re-organization
on the "Five Constitutional Powers". Our ways of Revolu-
tion are Nationalist, and our watchwords are "Down with
Kilitarism", "Down with Imperialism" and "Uphold all the
rights of the Peasants". The fundamental object emphasised
in "The Three Aspects of Democracy" is the realization of the natural rights of all, and this doctrine is the
source from which all our career has sprung. The ultimate
aim of our Revolution is to realize this principle of
our Fresident and advance the natural rights of all.
Our President has given us a clear explanation as to the
ways in which this is to be attained. Of these ways one
is fair distribution of the rights in land, and the
other the limiting of shares in capital. As to the steps
to be taken for the development of our Revolution, he has
also explained these to us in still fuller detail. Three
different periods have been appointed for our Revolution,
viz:- (1) Military Administration, (2) Political Training
and (3) after the accomplishment of Political Training,
Constitutional Government, which will be the final stage.
When we make clear to ourselves these different periods,
we