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functions today. We can say that the great object which our
late President aimed at all his life has now been realized,
and from today we shall have an opportunity to continue our
President's work. Comrades!
Comrades! you must know that while we have such an opportunity, if we fail to continue our activity
and, thinking that our occupation of Nanking, and the
establishment there of our Nationalist Government can permit
the lowering of our spirits, do not make an effort to put the "Three Aspects of Democracy" into practice, we shall
become worse than we were before; and then we shall indeed
be sinners against our Kuomintang. Again, this is not all.
You must know that if our Nationalist Government and
Kuomintang fail to carry out all the projects and policies
enunciated by our late President, the present international situation and revolutionary circumstances will not, it is to be feared, permit the existence of China. The slackness and inactivity of China during the past 15 years have brought
about the present gloomy chaos, and if our Nationalist
Government still fails to shoulder all responsibility and we
people do not support the Nationalist Government with all sincerity, it will surely spell the destruction of China in
the immediate future. What mission has our Nationalist
Government? The Nationalist Government has for its mission
the salvation of China and the emancipation of our 400,000,0 fellow-countrymen. Therefore from today all our comrades should put forth more energy, otherwise we shall not be able
to be optimistic as to our revolutionary career. All of
you know that according to Chinese history, especially modern Chinese history, the spirit of any Revolution slack-
ens down on the establishment of a Capital at Nanking.
Generally the Revolutionists have not only slackened down
their energy, but have even assassinated one another until
all