Enclosure No.1
Translation.
(Extract from the Tai Kwong Yat Po, Hongkong, 29th and
31st December, 1925, 4th and 5th January, 1926.)
Speech by Wong Tsing Wai on welcome of the Fraternity Party.
By the Kwok Man Tong.
Gentlemen:
It is very kind of you to have come to
Canton, and I am directed by the Committee of the National
Government to welcome you. The word welcome is not enough
to express our enthusiasm, for Government officers are public
servents, and it is you gentlemen who are masters. As in a
sha, the officers of the Government are employees, and you
are the masters. Your return here should be regarded as a
visit of masters at their shop to audit the accounts, and to
see if the employees have been inefficient because of lazi- ness, misappropriations, sexual indulgence, or anything
tending to impair their power for business. And we, as
employees, now accord to you not as strangers our hearty
welcome in the hope of reporting to you what we have done
on the one hand and of acquiring your advice on the other.
The watch-word of the Chinese Republic is that the
Chinese People are the foundations of the Chinese Republic,
and all Chinese, whether at home or abroad, are in the eye
of our formal constitution of like standing as masters. Before
the revolution in the San Hoi year (1911) our Chinese abroad
took keener interest in the project of a Republic than those
at home. The former had been subject to the oppression of
Imperialism, and knew it better than the latter, and there-
fore they rendered greater services for the establishment of the Republic. As you gentlemen abroad have done much
responsible work for the Republic, you must be regarded as
its great masters. On your arrival you have probably first
of all noticed that the people in Canton are still in great hardship, and have not yet attained peace within their
borders. You gentlemen must also have suffered greater
hardship
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