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THE NEW GOVERNMENT] 'The Executive Section of the

OF CHINA.

The Republic And Foreign

Criticism.

The following is the seventh article of the series on the Chinese situation which Mr. Eugene Chen is writing for the Canton Information Bureau, We must re-state some facts. It will be best to tabulate them in the following order:-

Nati

Unless this analysis of the Chinese situation is clearly grasp- ed, especially the dominant fact nambared 4, the entire political "landscape" of China will seem to it ap- the observer precisely as pears to a distinguished editor in Shanghai who, after more than a decade of daily discussion of the Chinese political situation, lately exclaimed, in the French way, that the more it changes, the more it is the same. If the party of re- action is in defiance of Euclid, envisaged as the whole of Chins. there may be some reason for a 1. It must be insisted that static view of the Chinese situa China is passing through a period tica with the implication that all of transition or re-adjustment, the great changes passing before necessitated by the altered con- the eye are merely delusive and ditions of her national life.

without meaning. The Party 2. The most vital of the holds with the Legation Quarter changes which have brought that

the re-establishment about this state of transition has national authority in China can be Deen the establishment of the Re-effected only by a "Strong Man" public, with its substitution of with his heavy heel on the neck the theory and practice of Western of the people, never by a Repub- democracy for the dogma and can

government deriving its ritaal of a semi-divine autocracy.power and sanction from a people 3. This procesa of substitution united in a common purpose of has divided the governing forces voluntary obedience. And so of the nation into (a) a party of one "Strong Man" appears change progress deeply be after

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disappearance lieving in the Republic and in its another Strong Han," the capacity to make Chida a strong | same opposition of the executive modern nation, without sacrificing section of the nation persists; and the best features of Chinese caltherefore the more Yuan Shih-kai ture: and (b) a party of reaction is replaced by Tuan Chiejui and disbelieving in the Republic and the latter by Chang Tsc-lin.. the its power to organise a central more is the nation. in its execo. government which shall re-estab-tive aspect of opposition, the same.

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seize and to retain the powers of the more the "Strong Men" are government once vested in the ejected and eliminated, the leas is Manchu Emperor. The Party the situation the same. This process secured these powers directly Dr. of elimination is inevitable and Suo Yat-sen resigned office necessary if the rival party of in faveur of Yuan Shih-kai in the | charge is eventually to gain mastery spring of 1912; and the Party has of the powers of government and continued to retain these powers apply them to the work of trans through the Peking Mandarinate forming China into a modera sacion, and the Tuchunate who are the essentially Chinese in its spirit and twin-saccc;3073 of Yuan Shib-kai- calture and strong to defend its just

5. The Party holds within its rights. This is the point to be an motley ranks (a) Manchu oficials derlined: and we have to resort to of the type of Old Hsa, (b) xew the device of Lord Fisher in order officials of the twofold type of to emphasise it in large type thus: Tea Ja-lin. Lu Chung-yu and

1. The Republie has been in the Chang Chung-Esiang and of Dr hands of the party of reaction W. W. Yea and Wellington Koo, since the summer of 1912 and (c) militarists of the type of Chang Tse-lin. These types vars

| 11. The party of change who founded the Repablic have not yet

An Impudent Allegation.

in capacity bat agree in the re-had a chance of working it.

II. Therefore, the charge that actionary nature of their mind and outlook. Type (a) is characteris- the Republie has been a failure is ed by great charm cf manners but true only in the sense that it has is wholly inefficient and largely been worked, hitherto, by men of corrupt. Type (b) corrupt. Type the reaction who do not believe in ID) is mostly foreign-educated. } it. with some inefficient and/or cor rapt and others smart rather than clever and able, while a few are exceptionally canning and bad men. Tape (c) has no redeeming quality, being vicious, inefficient and corrupt, without the charm of manners of the old mandarin nor the smartness of the mandarin.

A Caveat

1

This is the reply to Mr. J. O. P. Plaad's impudent allegation that

Young China" is "incapable," re- peared many a time and as recently as 19 Jane in the columns of the London Observer, in the first of a recies of articles advancing the in newperialistic interests of his Japanesc

Friends. Yo relevant exception! might be taken to the charge if it had been limited to the young mandarins included in the party of

6. It would be foolish as well

as misleading to infer from the moral assessment set down in No.

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reaction. But it is clear that Mr. materials for the guidance of his among his public. Some of his of the Consortium and some of the that the unsatisfactory charac-Bland intends no such limitation to countrymen on a grave issue, cah (principal views are not exclusively Old Chins Hands of the China As ter of the party of reaction is be read into his general arraignment describe the profound transforma- his own, being generally charac-sociation. We leave but the Jap- peculiarly racial to the Chinese. of the educated, particularly the tions in the material life of the teristic of the type of alien mind anese member of the Consortium It is nothing of the sort. As in foreign-educated, Chinese. It is people and the significant and subtle which, ignorant of the cultural advisedly, because Mr. Bland ap every other country, the irregular against this great body of the changes in the national mind as riches of the Chinese, is alightly con- pears to have a curious but quite or criminal type in the shape of nation that he inveigbs.

meaning naught but decay and im-temptuous of a people whose fore-¡remarkable knack of saying things the corrupt is present among

Fixing his eye on the disarrayed pending death.

fathers dressed in silks when their which the Japanese have said be. Chinese public mer and officials. state of an ancient giant among the Mr. Bland may be regarded as a own had the body painted with fore him less convincingly, This fact, however, does not nations, which is seeking to re-writer whose views concerning Wood Besides, these views which justify the accusation that all fashion and readapt its life to meet China sad the Chinese peo are shared in common by Mr. Bland A striking instance of this close public men and officials in China the new demands and wants of ple arg largely typical of and the rest of the type, he hap-identity in views batween Mr. Bland are corrupt any more. than the

changed conditions of international the thoughts and ideas and pens to be afflicted with sundry and the people who, in one of his existence, this authority on the Far sentiments of a certain class of original views regarding China and innumerable articles written in their East professes to see nothing but foreigners, of whom the more im-the Chinese; and it is to be feared interest, he calls his "Japanese utter failure in all the wonderful portant reside in some of the com- that a native capacity for what may hosts" is to be found in Mr. Bland process of change at work in China pounds in the Legation Quarter in be called controversial shouting has powerful advocacy of the Japanese to-day. One must, indeed, be blind Peking. The average alien resident enabled him to impose some of these thesis for a more or less free hand or wicked, who, re-visiting China in the Treaty Ports, who wants to riews on admirable people like the in "Manchuria and Mongolia, with after a decade of gears in search of make his pile and clear out, is also European and American members) (Continued on Pages 3 and 4.)

Connexion of the British Chancel

the lor of the Exchequer with Marconi scandal eight years ako

proves that English public life then or to-day is of the game moral level as of the period when an English king was in the pay of Louis XIV.

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