with Japan We hace been asked to publish the following letter. While accepting no responsibility yor the opinions fzpreseed lee print it' on the veneral principle the udeantage of heering the other side Brothers, have been watching your activities carefully since tne ume you organized the Students' Union ant have ever sympathized with you in Your zeal to ameliorate your nation, Nothing can be more laudable and noting can bring greater credit to you than your unselfish zeal for your fatherland and today the world knows that though the old China is still slumbering under the narcotic influence of lethargy, conservatism and selfishness, you are awake and serious. Others may think that students must not take part in politics but my own experience in different countries of the world informs me that there comes a time in the history of a nation when young men sacrificing their self-interests devote themselves whole-hearted! to the regeneration of their nation. Young Italy was responsible for the deliverance of the land of Dante from the hands of the Austrians and Mazzini and Garibaldi were the products of the young Italy. Very recently Turkey has been saved by the Young Turks who deposing the despotic Sultan Abdul Hamid in 1908 abolished conservatism and gave a constitution to~Turkey, making education compulsory.
I am the more interested in you as you are the sons of Asia, the cradle of humanity, the mother of all the religious prophets, the birth-place of civilization and the eternal home of sages and savants-Eurone is only a colony of Asia and the last Great War has established that the European civilization is wanting in something which gives stability to human ideals Tre Orp Orper Cancer.
This is the era of reconstruction and you see unrest all over the world which shows that the conditions require readjustment and the old order must give place to a new one. The struggle between labour and capital is only one of the phases of the coming readjustment and Bolshevism with its peculiar charm is only a passing condition. Hitherto a minority of intriguing persons has been ruling the world in an amazing fashion, though there has been a ray of light in Britain and the U.S.A. in the form of democracy, but it has been too feeble to illuminate the dark corners of the world. Now either Love must rule and justice dominate or the present race will be winial hatred is the worst al disease and so long as it rales there can be no permanent peace. The peace of Paris will only be a truce, a period to prepare for a more titanic manslaugh-
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