New Tuli's Ingenuous Propaganda Faom Our Own Comsesronoen, Mienchow, Sze, May 29, The foreigners in this city yester-ay received through the post little brochure, tastefully got. up on good glazed paper. Its contents are a biographical sketch of the career and ideals of Gen, Yang Sen. It is written in good English and might hhaye been produced by x foreigner, but seems to me to bear evidence of being the work of a Chinese pamphotoer, a piece of propaganda. Foreigners will doubtless readily believe the general truthfulness of its message; and will be helped to a better understanding of Yang Son and his work. No one here doubts his ability, nor do they suspect his, motives, but they know the difficulty of his task, 'They feel too, that he finds it difficult to live up' to his ideals. It would need a man of the ability of his great predecessors in Szechuan, Chu Ko-long or Tsiang Wan. Perhaps he has that ability. But even they found Szechuan poll-tics more than they could cope with; and present circumstances seem to have many points of similarity the far away polities of the Three Kingdom Period. It is true the greatly increased population and presence of foreigners make two important modifying factors: but tone reads the ups and downs Three Kingdom politics and con-trests the situation with to-day the atmosphere seems very much the same, Tt is doubtless only just to Yang Sen to believe that he himself and his more cultured officers advance of Three Kingdom civilization: but they could be more magnanimous than wore Chu Korliang and the greater of his The ideals and hopes that Yang Sen is credited with in this little sketch are admirable; and perhaps it would be ungenerous to remit that there is much happening to cor tradict it: for in the present condition of China a man with excellent motives will find countless things to prevent him realizing his ides The trouble is who is to be at the top? That is the difficulty at the present time, Chu Ko-liang unquestionably a greater man than the first sovereign of Shuh, Liu Pel; but he served him faithfully as the man to whom fate had given the pre~ eminence.
That is the kind of man that the Republic seems so sadly to lack and the stories of friction between Yang Sen and Liu Tsenshou and the latter's conference from which he omitted Yang Sen are not reassu fog, This ie "how the "pamphlet is governments liberty and forcement. of law ede. There really only "afew of these enemy who work to satiety: their own elfah Shey take for "heating al 'Yang, She. arnly does bes ity the'Provinec and" Dung "about union throughout the count For Without union nothing can be. accom Tished. © Gen. Yang. says that he rep! union' of the mot important and wort uriment step to be taken," if union not "consummated. he will reprove Rlaselt.serfousty. ion has been tained. he" will do Ais" best to manege and direct political The italies are mine and Tam thinking of Lin Tsen-hou. "It two men ride 'a horse one must be. in front."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.