"If China wants to. change the relations between the Republic and the Ching Bmperor, we must do it inva fuir and gentlemanly way. The Republic of China agreed, to pay the Howse of Ching a "certain Amount. of witney every year, "to guarantee the life and, person to hie cantinaed se of the tile of the young Emperor and to agree
Manchu Emperor. We agreed to that because, by abdicating, the Manohas made it unnecessary 0 prolong the period of the revolution, Saved human life amd gave us opportunity to sattle down to reconstruction. Wang Ciingwel, an ardent revolutionist, was the most earnest, pleader for concessions to the House of Ching. Twas not so favourably impressed with idea, No matter what owe personal opinions may Ihave been we, she representatives of the Chinese people, entered into a solemn agreement with the Ching Emperor by which awe have to abide until a new arrangement is made.
"If the Chinese people believe that the time has come to, change that agreement, if, for political or other reasons, it is felt that the House of Ching ought not to be to enter upon a new course, elsewhere. I ly, rand unethical to swoop down n, whether Emperor Citizen, and to throw him of his house.
During the Chang Hsun affair, y have been an excuse for demanding the expulsion from Peking of the Ching Emperor and the abrogation of the agreement. That isode passed and the Republic of China demanded no change. Why make @ change to-day? Why bring up old quarrels? What is to be gained by an immoral, unethical by @ breach of trust?
"The Chings have property in china, Some of the property their own: that is, they had it before they became Emperors. Some is family property. If a change is to be made, there must be arrangement on this question. We cannot steal a man's property simply because he was formerly an Emperor. The moral sense of the Chinese people rejects that sort of treatment, But perhaps General Feng no longer is! conscious of the ethical foundation, of the Chinese race,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.