Ai ya! There is no way of escape for us, The State is hopelessly weak, and foreigners are unduly severe (in their demands). Piece by piece the land is being cut away; point by point authority is being lost; day by day our wealth is vanishing into space. If at this time we do not stir oursd: to action, the calamity that will stroy us as a nation and a race will cone upon us. But [have thought of goon pi and written this article in the common speech, and now with bitterness of heart lip tell it forth to all. Lot no one regard my message as 80 many idle weriis, but let all understand that word is true and important. When it has been read, lot its words be momentarily graven on the readers' hearts, and let them, in all sincerity, go and act accordingly.
Tae Sioxs or tax Tr Formerly China was called the Celestial Empire, and consisted of ighteon provinces. It was not known that outside these cightoon provinces there was such a thing a8 @ foreign great ability on our part, it was possible for us to live at peace. But now all is changed. In the East ther in Japan, To the North there Russia, In the West we have Eo, and, Franco, Germany. and America, The tar tot th m is larger, anc he sin lies aller than China. aco stronger than China, aod all seem to have mide up their minds to grab our Tend and our wealth, Such being the cease, China can no longer be regarded as the Celestidl Empire, of us a great country at all, Thos ate of affairs is nor as i ier time, and Chinese may on clinging to our old Lot us take all these things let us show a strength, and only by 80 doing our country.
Tue Ixpivipeat xp tHe Sta We are provided with all things way wf fou, clothing, money, and dwellings, hut where do they all come from Our parents gave us our bodies, but they cannot cut of their own flesh to feed us, There is only the land, and we depend upon it for all, Thevefore the Inud is really of more importance to us than are If the land gets into the hen all we have— will neither "low us to eat, t" wear, to use, or to dwell, nnd thea it is all over with us At present. Annam ed by France, If the wear clothes, they must pay for if the it to rear i psy for it: if they house, they mus: pay for it. If they do not pay they are put to death, The rich quickly come to poverty, the poor soon come to death. It is not ten years since Annam wes taken, and now seven-tenths of the people are dead. See how injuriousyare the foreigner China at the present time. If, while our country is still an destroyed, they are thus destruction
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