To the Editor of the "NorTH-CHINA Datty News."
'Sim,—In one of the columns of your" paper yesterday appearing, under the title of "More Allies for 'Wa Pei-fu," a circular telegram. supposed to have been sent out by'
neral Wang Hui-ching, Inspector General of Suiyuan,—Jehol, Charhar, denouncing General Feng} Yuchsiang's coup d'etat as rebellious, and treacherous, it is added by your, paper that "the position of General Wang is important because the ly telegrams on the coup d'etat stated that he was associated with!
Feng Yuhsiang.
Permit me to say, however, that the said telegram may never' have come from General Wang nor been made known to him. It is no wonder that General Chang Yuan-1g Commander of the Hupeh 4th Brigade, who was sent down here to help Kiangsu crush Generals Lu and Ho, and whose attitude has been doubtful to many, despatched the other day a group of soldiers to watch the operation of the telegraphic office. At least this much can be said, however; the name' of General Ching-yi, Commander of the 3rd Army Corps, who has been actively associated with Feng right from the beginning, is also among those signatures in the telegram hich makes it al the more doubt-
Granted the telegram was true, what about it? The whole charge: thrown against General Feng seems to gather around Feng's luck of; is wh ty to Tsao Kun and Wu Pei-fu, it do we mean by loyalty how? Loyalty may be taken mean the willing and thorough, going devotion of a person to a cause. By a cause is meant that. something which seems to the loyal person to be larger than his private self and which unites him with other; persons by some social tic such as:
public trust or a family. tru, and so forth, The loyal man is) loyal because he has some cause] to which he can be loyal and willingly devote himself. In. the present war is there to be found in the person of Tsao Kun a righteous cause to which General Feng must hold firm unto death? In other words, docs Tsao Kun) deserve a display of self-sacrificing, devotion from the Christian General? Certainly he does not According to the report brought in by the daily papers Tsao Kun hin seit has made a confession of for having bribed his election to residency, which is the prime cause of this bloody, suicidal war.
Tsao Kun may have. been the personal benefactor of Feng in the Past but that does not alter. the reason why he chauid not rebel. against "him, if. that. rebellion. is founded on "righteous cause." "The fact that Feng had the courage to rebel against the President with. out fearing the eriticim of being Ungrateful, speaks for itself' that Feng is traly'a patriot.—Rebellion of this kind is often justified, and not without precedence in the hi tory. of China. The rebels. righteous causes have generally been Praised, for example Confucius com: mented, "The rebellion of Wu Wan against King Chu is in accordance with the will of God and in re. Sponse to the wishes of the people." Again he said, "If there. were rebellions. "what coald. make the Emperor and princes take precaution and' what could make them observe the law?
According toa statement given cout yesterday in. the newspapers General Feng is quoted to have that he is leading: a revolution of the National' Army against militarism. If such be the cause. that drove him to action General Feng is truly the hero of the day. and has at heart. the welfare of the People. "Thus we read in circular telegram: "Since the outbreak' in'-Kiangsu the whole National Army has been mobilized and thousands of lives expended, bat for what do we fight?" This is just the question that people are asking and must be answered. Think of
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