THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2ND
CHINA'S BUDGET FOR THE Manchu people, and has nothing to do
with military expenses.
mary:~
HALIYEAR.
GROM TOTALS.
Total receipts Total payments
Deficit
* 51,336,881 109,823,462
us
the
A PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE IN
CHINA.
ON THE GREAT CVAL OF THE DAY.' The following mesange has been issued, by President Yuan Shil-kai:---
In a Republic, the sovereign power is vested in the people. Therefore the principle of the nation is that all things should be determined in accordance with the desires of the majority of the people,
LIFE AND SPORT. Professor Ferrero, of Tutin University, has recently justified sport to his country men as one of the bounds at to the
The movement excitement of our times." aud bustle of modern life appal him. If ever the ancients could come back to live," says he, their first impression, you gay be sure, would be that mach had Become med. The word "ancients" is rast of large significance and covers
But when Professor deal of ground. Ferrero contrasts with their tranquillity in ovecrating the influence of "progress." he belittles the still unsullied wisdom of the ancients.
1918..
resolved upon an hour of joyous recrea tion. The game itself, as it is played to-day, brings with it its own
panga. its own heart-burnings. If you would test the teath of Froissart's often-quoted sentence that the English take their Pleasures sadly, you have but to watch a game of golf. The ministranta face their task with a hieratic solennity, as though they were engaged in a religious cero- mony. And when the battle is lost and wor won the poor antagonists must needs fight their battle over again at a dull fireside, explaining how they foozled " this shot or that, and laying all the blame
practice would interfere with the und the desires of the people may be our own intellectual excesses I think that, of their own ineptindo upon a blameless |
of
ombraged in two words, ie, Existence Since the executive and Happiners.
Hence it has praced temporarily under estimate of this ministry. With regard to A HUGE DEFICIT.
the pay of the Bauners at Chili, Jeh bund Chinchine, it has hitherto been issued The Budget for the various offices and from the treasury of this Ministry. As it has not yet been abolished, the amount gamons of the Central Government" forgetted for them has been half of that the first half of the Second Year of the which has been allotted to them annually estimate of the Republic was recently submitted to the
According to the Ministry of War the expenses of the 8th National Assembly, From the Peking division of the 2nd Army of Nanking Daily Neus wo extract the following sum includo a certain amount of bonds of public loans in lieu of cash payment, and
such uniformity of other Ministries, it has been left out of the General Sections the Budget
compiling the present Budget this Ministry repeatedly telegraphed to the various provinces, requesting them to make telegraphic replies regarding the remittances they would send. According to the telegrams from Chilli and other provinces the total amount they should
sud amount is remitted accordingly sufferings of our inuocent people. S remit is more than $18,000,000 Whether farm, could not bear to see the eternal will be decided when the acequnts are I assumed offices in the moment of danger, As the four departments of the Ministry and did not gradge the sacrifice of all ing Communications-the Railway, the personal blessings. It was only because Posts, the Telegraphy and the Navigation, thought that Chinese, being and the Minte and the Printing and
descendants of an intelligent race thou Engraving Bureau, both of which are under control of the Ministry of Finance.tands of years old, and learning the bave formed a special estimate. the doctrines of virtue and righteousness surplus or deficit of these items should taught by our ancient sages, should seek have been recorded in the totul receipts
$1,17,480,572 When compared with the Provisional Budget of the four months, the expenses have increased tremendously.
BUMMARY OF EXPENDITURE.
The following us the gross totals of The Present us the send year of the the present Budget, from the first to the
Chinese Republic
Ministry of Foreign Affaica:
Ordinary
Extraordinary
Total
Ministry of the Intain:
Ordinary
Extraordinary
Total
Ministry of Finaues:
Ordinary
Extraordinary
Totul
Ministry of Education:
Ordinary
Extraordinary
Total
Ministry of War:
Ordinary Extraordinary
Total
Ministry of Nary:
-Ordinary
Extraordinary
Total
Ministry of Justice:
Ordinary
Extraordinary
Total
1,679,866 459,787
82,033,148
$ 1,835,101 300,510
$2,135,701
28 87,703,001 2,807,103
$90,610,104
$ 2,298,801 4,048,850
86,287,651
.8 20,278,449 2,663,309
$22,630.758
$ 1,724,964
1,229,250
89,954,201
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry:
Ministry of Industry and Commerce:
Ordinary
Extraordinary
Total..........................
Ordinary Extraordinary
Total
Grand Totals:
.. 740,445 361587
81,102,035
48 1,360,228 1,545,326 $2,914,553
$13,819,6U60 170,000
$13,429,650
705,221 16,794,423
$17,499,547
$131,019,908 37,274,144
..$168,823,432
Ordinary...
Extraordinary
Total
Ministry of Communications:
Ordinary
Extraordinary
Total
SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS.
*
Ministry of Forga Affairs
Maistry of Finance ......
Ministry of Education
18,440. 2,679,169 20.01
Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry
Ministry of Communications Remittanees promised by the
provinces
Customs ReveNES
To
14,530 276,290
18,551,846 20,700,701
..861336,679
AKMICIANCA FROM THE PROVINCES.
Chilli
Fengtion
Kiris
Hailangking
Hovan Kiangau Cheking Kiangsi Hunan
Shansi
Shensi
Sinklang
Shantung
Kiangsi (Publie Lony a/el
1,155,240 488,616 135,000 45,000 2,088,871 5,370,
9771,000 2,055,000 9,174,761 150,000 1,184,053 331.02) 1.149,242 400,000
918,551.816
made up.
of
organs have been unable to protect, the people, they suffered misery and pain instead of happiness, and danger and
1
uplement
A MONSTROUS NEW INVENTION. And then, as though the sport of to-day were not already & gloomy kind of pro- we huve invented A monstrous thing known as "international
fessionalism,
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INTIMATIONS
When all else changes in a changing world the legitimate activities of ráankind
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MUCH remain steadfastly in the same grove. I the days it would be because we are at infinite to ill feeling and uncharitableness.
we appeared sad to a ghost of ancient sport," the finest incentive yet discovered
confidence in our Coffee death instead of existence.
pains to do less, not more, than they. We an Englishınan is beaten upon the run-
i from my exłatust ourselves CRITIC
a kind of busy
we know the extreme We have permittil the aping path by a ume of another race we because President, when
paratus of life to encroach ominous rap instantly to a pious conclusion of
national degeneracy. In a storm of thought and care that go into the upon itte itself. We farm lost than the jacousy and rancour the one fair-perpose making of overy pound The
idleness.
the game is ancients know, we do less than the of sporta love of ancients did, we think less than the instantly overwhelmed. Set face to face watchful selection of berries, the
All that W+ have in rivalry with foreigners we forget the
the ancients thought
we have day of kasing, we obscure our ancient thorough double cleaning, achieved of new and strange
blend and the exact. achieved at thus expense of intellectual hope that the best men should be victori perfect
us, we make an open declaration of our enterprise. MODERN NEWSPAPERS,
faith that sport has but one purpose roosting combine to give you which is to win. And so fiercely has the mimic warfare her waged that before such deliciousness as, we believe, long every Foreign Office in the world will no other Coffee has ever attained. LOTUS' COFFEE
we
ar payment of the General Section of the transform the violently bid and to do ! transport of our bodies from one place to be compelled to establish n department
Budget, been recorded in the original estimates of the Navigation Department and the Printing and Engraving, Bureau, the payments of both alone have been re corded, so that there will be no omission and they may be easily andited.
Some of the estimates submitted by the and the Various various Ministries Yamens at Peking are wanting in details and erroneous, and moreover there is lack of uniforinity in form. However, it is expected that improvements will soon. be effected as that perfection may attained later on,
RAILWAYS IN YUNNAN. The British Consular report on the trade of Mengtsz for 1912 says that the problem of the construction of the Yun. nan-Kuangsi railway occupied public at- tention in 1919, and the new Government has evinced a keen despire to put the work in band as soon as the necessary funds can be obtained.. At the present moment the trade of Yunnan pisses to and from the coast by the French railway which owing to the great cost of upkeep, is obliged to charge exorbitant, and in some cases, almost prohibitive, freight rates. The construction of a line connect-
should never fight among ourselves, the brothers of oue family, or destroy one another, that I endured contempt and shouldered responsibilities and tried my atinust to stop the violent waves of excited feeling among the people at that time.
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Professer Ferrero, then, in suggesting of international sport.
and nervous tension, suggests a remedy sport as a mitigation of intellectual exter moro violent than the disease, If we followed the path of sanity we should de inore work, nut less, and we should double our leisure by no more arduous a process than by refusing to exhaust the energies which God gave us in useless motion and A tele-idie curiosity.
AN ENGLISHMAN, We look
We prove our superiority over the ancients in two directions in the swift transmission of news and in the rapid other. Every morning, a day's history latest news of far Cathay is sent to us in of the world lies open before us. The
wa anticipate what happens in Australia fow minutes. By a whimsical paradox by around twelve hours. These marvels were beyond the scope of the ancients. Are we one whit the better because we have converted them into commonplaces However, my sincerity and credit have The swift collection and dispersion of not been sufficient to move the people and news have had no other effect than to to affect the situation.. From the 9th make us universal busybudies. month of the year before fast up to the graphic despatch permits us to assume a present time, the miseries of the people knowledge which is not ours. and the indirect losses to them have been at events as we look on at games, Legislation, which taking no part in them and affecting a Instead immensely great. should have been speedily accomplished, kind of knowing indifference has been indefinitely delayed owing to of being fed upon activities of our own, confusion, and the progress of administra. We gladly acerpt whatever mental susten tion has thus heen handicapped. Besides, papers and cinematographs may We live at second-hand in the enterprise rty prejudiers and dissensions have been extensively prevalent and the dis of older spirits and do not recognise af tinction between right and wrong has been, what our restless curiosity deprives us. confounded the appointment of officials The fact that, following hard upon events, has been encumbered and the Government; we read of a murder in India a few hours Thas we gloat has been almost without officers; and there after it has been committed does not soil has been danger of the tyranny of violent our hands with blood. people. All these things are, of courer, over the crimes and praise tepidly the due to the fact that I have been incapable virtues of men and women who we never of fulfilling my duties for want of virtue confront in the flesh, and we fondly and ability on my part. I have ever fell believe ourselves to be finer fellows than grievous and sad for it, and wished that the ancients whe, not allowed to read the bust scandal upon the tape, patient- could shed tears in sympathy with my relied on travellers tales for their innocent people.
knowledge of the outside world.
βάνει τις
the ancients,
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THE NEW WOMAN CRUSADE IN JAPAN.
IT ME TO MAN'S CONDUCT
VIEWS OF MINSTER OF
EDAVATION,
What I have called the themselves disregard-if these be the real reasons for women's recent activity along apparatus of life left them unencumbered.
their attitude. But if they merely aim They were not prevcated by the noisy this line, I think there is some reason in at improving men's conduct, there are many other ways in which this can be machinery of existence fra serving, as intelligener best they might, the State and their
attained without taking such steps as at present contemplate]).
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Mr. Oluda, Minister of Education, hus OR the subject of the Now Woman" in Japan, beep interviewed by the Chro
Many women, said the Minister, serm to have lately made their appearance
17 New true women," te,, and under the various banners of "New women,' tion. But to tell the truth, I am at a are attacking a good deal of public atten- loss to understand what activity these women contemplate and what are their motives and principles for taking such "WE HATE TO RE QUIET." As the wind and the water are in ing the province of Yunnan with the West constant contention, the waves can never
The other conjuring trick in which we steps. As far as I can gather, they are River will of necessity force the French b: calmed. When the magnet is in to lower their tariff, thereby introducing friction with the iron, electric sparks will easily surpass the ancients-the rapid trying to transplant to Japan, wholesale, transport of our bodies through the air the extreme doctrines and wholesome a healthy competition which is at pre certainly leap auf. Therefore, fearful of redounds even less to our glory and novels which have such vogne in Some OF FINEST QUALITY AND HIGH PRECISION. sent lacking. Indeed, as in 1912 Hong-
the warning that recourse to war profit. No man can be said to live while parts of Europe and America, without one place to modifying them to suit the Japanese kong took 86 per cent of the trade of Mengtsz, which is the market for Eastern great evil and acting upon the principle he is bring hurled from
that wrongs should not be revenged. I
another.
He is, at best, in a state of people. If their movement is actuated by
Never d the
a consciousness of the pressity of freeing Yunnan, there is every likelihood of a
be entertained a hope that the vehement suspended animation. larg part of the trade being diverted to and noisy Factions would ultimately rage to live approximate more nearly to themselves from the yoke imposed upon the new route. The line was surveyed
The read work of the world is Trum. Posel in Kwangsi at the head of change their course of action of their own death than in these days of superilous them by man, and refusing to implicitly
accord, when they consult their better hustle. navigation en the West, River as far as conscience. I have not been
all timid accomplished in tranquillity and solitude, sabmit to the latter's orders, or by indig Kutsingia in Yunnan by Taotzi Lo inin adopting this policy. Fo. the salva- And the present generation hates to bination at the attitude of some men, who March, 1913), the survey of the portion should pray heaven for the long life of Here, at any rate, the advantage was with from them ideals of chastity which men THE 1011, and at the time of writing (Prion of the country and its people, wo quiet even more than it hates to be alone. regard women as mere dolls, and demand between Kutsinglu and Yunnanfu is the nation, but should not allow ourselves being completed by Mr. Dawlay, the to endanger the existence of the nation American engineer in the employ of the hy excitement and impulsive passions. Yunnan Government, who has found a practicable, though difficult, route into The great evil of the mind of our people Kweichow. The line will strike north-w-a-days is the misunderstanding of the truc principles of Republicanisia. Persons
The Athenian citizen, for instance, bad wards from Push into Kwrichow passing in general are borrowing well-sounding far more the for his lawful tasks and
Of course, I am reatly to admit that excuses for the carrying out of their bad pleasures than the Englishman of today. through Singyifu, then westwards "to Loping in Yuunau, northwards to Kat desigus, and under the pretest of public le stayed perforee in one place and did sure men of the present day are given tolishness and thoughtlessness as to singfu, and finally westward to Yun interest, they try to attain their selfish not hanker after the gossip of the anti. fu i Malungshow and Yanglio.
ends. These persons even go so far as to
By this inevitable concentration woman's proper place in life. Some men, podes. The much discussed branch line from consider the forsaking of parents as he gained in intelligence and perceptives it is true indulge in all kinds of dissipa-
French the
railway at Pishibchai
If his world was small it was a tion, and instead of being ashamed they (Rengiaz) to the tin mines at Kochin has liberty and to regard the violation of
Laws na
a demonstration of equality. I corld in which he and his friends played radier al pride in their infamous pon- ! ot Set materiafised. The line, which Bat they are ignorant of the fact that in practical and urgent part, would be some 35 miles long, was care-
whatever form of government-aight or Athening demserney followed the sadduct. This tendency is especially obser to set a better example to the lower fully surveyed in 1912 by the America modern, domestic or foreign-law, and, path taken by all democracies and vable antong the higher classes, who ought | classes. This state of things is, I fear, enginers, Messrs. Dawlag und Hawke,
at least it impressed the citizens with a hut the Yunnan Government has been propriety must be enforced for the regula- | involved a gracious people in rain, but unable to decide whether it shall be built tion of the people.
I am surely not 1, the President, endeavouring to con- sense of life's reality. The men who, not very injurious to the training of the by the mine-owners at their own expense,
juries, eyed the sammons to fight for caused in the home. by the Government as part of a branch ceal the disreputable, and to publish the content with casting lots and serving on young, to say nothing of the unhappiness line to conneet Liuanfu with the French fair conduct of others, have made it a their city did their best to deserve the guilty of exaggeration if I say that not In our days to bear a few bases of unhappiness in the home, new so coinmen in Japan, are due to the railway, or by the French Railway Com-point not to ill-treat others even if they title of democrat, pany. Of the three alternatives, perhaps have ill-treated me. Therefore I sincerely arms for the country is accounted an act the last offers the best solution of the hope that y Military when will obey of shame. The whole duty of a modern misconduct of men. I will not venture told. is to give an En opinion as to whether man and woman difficulty, as the cost would be less and orders, will not transgress their own citizen, the workmanship better-the line being offee, and will not interfere with what interested vote and to extract by the should be recorded the same rights and built by Franch engineers who have hnd lies outside their duty. I further hope blackmail of the ballot whatever dules the he placed on a footing of equality, but belween man and woman in the home ure may provide. experience of local conditions when con- that all those first promoters of the wealth of the thrifty and industrious will say that the present relations in need of great improvement. In order structing the main line from Tongking Revolution will be careful of their own reputation. will warn their companions
woman problem in Japan, to Yunnanf.
It is not easy, therefore, to appreciate to solve the And will prevent adventurers from crent. ing disturbances in their names and thus he extreme mental tension for which I would draw the attention of men to the to shake the foundations of the nation. Professer Ferrero demands the counter necessity of greater circumspection in And even if some that own conduct and the serd of paying
At the sam By so doing, the evil spirit of the nation, balancing of sport, The General Sections of the Annual
time, the women must deem it their first. Expenditure have been recorded record-
Speaking at the general meeting held may be changed into a harmonious bright- wholesome diversion were necessary, then greater respect to women.
ness, and the people revived from the sport, as it is interpreted to-day," would Ing
to the lists submnitted by the various
For sport. อร่ our ancestors Ministries and the organs under their in Berlin, the chairman said that the death's door. Then I the President, will seem to be neither beneficent nor recupera duty to practise those virtues upon which control.
Japan is concerned, the With reference to the General
exist. So far and reform the discerned it, was long ago chauged into alone healthy and happy households can
profes Sections of Amunt Receipts, as at present bank had been founded to assist trade certainly do my best for our citizens of tire.
a serious business. Everyone is the system of taxation has not yet been with China, bat there was no intention the whole country settled, the amount derived from receipts of taking over from the Chinese the risks administration of the Government with a downdays and plays his game with tducation of the girls and young women sincerity, trying to promote the blessing
Whether it be golf must be carried out on a principle look great, but they have temporarily is not breu recorded in accordance with the lists This was impossible owing to the un-eternal happiness of the Republic,
Continuing, the Minister said :- Some submitted by the various ministries, satisfactory state of commercial law in Although I may not be able to accem- engages his leisure, he banishes all hopeatin
In order to avoid errors the Detailed the country, the only method of procedure plish all these things, I am, however, bent Sections of the Receipts and Payments of
on them with all my heart and soul, and Ministeries have been recorded being to form foreign joint-stock com tho
panies. The Chinese authorities did not various ns received from them.
After auditing the estimated payments encourage the formation of such under hope that our countrymen will listan
It was stated submitted by the various Ministries, this takings, and it was very difficult to place to me.
that the bank had made a satisfactory Ministry compared the figures of the pay the shares in Germany. ments of the sixth mouths for the various
The capital thus winistries will those of the Provisional profit from their participation in the Budget for the four months proper-recent Chinese loan.
Government would enable it to consoli. tionately, and the causes of either increase placed at the disposal of the Central GT decrease have been stated in the Detailed Sections, so that there will be date the strength of the country, and no misunderstanding. With regard to the should have a very good inence on receipts of the various Ministries the Chinese trade generally.
districts where the amount is not a great one, and moreover sidered remarkable how quickly trade had
get all revived, even in the various provinces have not
Railway Revelop- this ministry disturbances hud beru most serious, as in submitted reports te Therefore with the exception of the the Yangtze Valley. Ministry of Counqunications the four rents were having far-reaching effects. departments of which, the Posts Tek The Bank's prospects for the current year were very favourable. The shareholders graph, Navigation and Railway, form a special estimate, the receipts of which can passed the roncadations of the Board. be recorded, the receipts of the rest of the which inonder a dividend of a per cent. (m. 125 per share). Messrs. Franz Irbig. Ministries cannot be similarly treated.
According to the Provisional Budget the Hop Oppenheim, and S. Schwitzer were pay of the Eight Banners at Peking is re-elected directors; Mr. Carl von Brauser of the was elected in place of Mr. Albrecht Otto. grouped under the estimate Ministry of War, while, in fact, the said who retires on account of age, and Mr. pay is connected with the livelihood of the Curt Erich, formerly manager, was also
made a member of the Board.
-EXPLANATIONS.
The following explanations accompany the Statement:-
The amounts budgetted are reckoned in current dollars down to tenths of a cent. All the tacl items in the original have been converted into dollars: hence one Kuping Tael recorded as 81.50 of the usual currency, and one Kinping toel, $1.40.
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