Japan also had treaties imposed upon her. And these treaties were also unilateral in their benefits. But Japan met the prolem logically and heroically. She organized her state on a basis which within the short period of fifty years made her one of the greatest Powers on earth, the equal of those who had been able previously to impose these unsatisfactory treaties upon her. And the treaties disappeared. Japan achieved this on very slender margin of resources, territory and manpower. China could achieve this result in a shorter time because of her greater actual power, were she ied by sincere, honest, decent men instead of the charlatans who rob the land and confuse the issues. In the century or more of intercourse between China and the nations of the world, no effort has been made by China: to overcome her unfavourable situation by utilizing her own strength in that direction. AH of her energies have gone into playing tricks, into propaganda and into loose talk. The same amount of energy expended in strengthening China and in making her efficient would have resulted in China's being master of the Pacific.
The students, for instance, who are demanding the heavy taxing of cigarettes because it will give them an educational fund, befog the issue and prove themselves the dupes of cratity politicians. For have they ever inquired why the educational funds of their provinces are so low? What becomes of the money collected for likin, about $40,000,000 annually? What becomes of the land-.tax? What becomes of all. the. money borrowed from foreign sources and which is throwing the country into Lankruptcy. today? What has become of. the salt and customs surpluses? What has become of the "domestic bond issues—the funds derived therefrom? Howe they ever asked themselves how it is possible for politicians and militarists to die leaving millions, to build for themselves palaces in Tientsin, to live as-lavishly as monarchs, at a time when the schools off. the country are penniless, when teachers go without their salaries, when universities are, at the mercy of military commanders? If they took pencil and paper, they would find that the money in the course of the Republia "squeezed" by. profligate officials
alone, would have paid for an education for every child in the nation,
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