The one primary mission of the Student Movement is an educational mission, though for the moment they happen to be inspired to anti-Japanese propaganda. This should be to them purely incidental. Their great work, if they are to prove of pernianent value to China, is to awaken the Chinese masses to an interest in China's public affairs and to develop amon; the people such institutions ani organizations as will make the people's will articulate. This is the first essential to democracy, and the development of deniocracy in China is the one great essential to international representation for the independence and integrity of the Chinese nation. If the students can cultivate in the Chinese people a proner interest in their own affairs, the interest of the Occidental Powers in China's well-being will follow shortly after and most of the perplexing problems of the Far East will be automatically solved.
The Chinese Government, having ne censors. needs watching. and it might be fatal to Chinese interests to warn the students and their merchant allies away from all consideration of the actions of their own officials, but at the same time it seems well to advise the enthusiasts that the nien who at present dictate affairs in most of the provinces, are more in need of cooperation than of unqualified antagonism. Tt might also he reniarked that the traditional aloofness of the high Chinese official makes impossible the an-wrench of democratic agents either from student er comniercial organizations. and that it behoves the provincial and loca! authorities,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.