The timely thing is to put such men in the provinces, in civil service, or the provincial assembhes, for training. They will thus gain the necessary experience to qualify them for Positions in the central government er parliament.
At present the Central Government has but few places to offer men ambitious of entering public life. Cabinet Ministers number only nine or> 10, The national Farliament at present numbers 800. The offices to be filled in a national way are very limited, but local offices will be many. They will extend to the fu (prefecture) and the hsien (district). With the present system the few men of experience and training are absorbed by the Central Government while the utterly ignorant are placed in positions in the provinces. Tf posts in the provinces are made important men will feel honoured to fill them, and there will be no further rush to Peking for the few posts which exist,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.