To speak truthfully and frankly, to criticize when a wrong is seen, to call attention to error and to Jhope for future greatness, is neither findieative of hatred nor snobbishness. Some Chinese, particularly those younger men, foreign educated fand labouring for the favour of those who grease the pots, take umbrage at every word of criticism of their, country when spoken by a foreigner. They grow irritable when one speaks of Peking or Tuchuns or such as rob the state and ruin the country. They walk the back alleys, make difficulties for foreigners who constantly. strive to help China, while these young men, capable and energetic, squeeze gently that they may some day squeeze well. They denounce even those who in moments of stress have sacrificed themselves for China, when they might have thought, these young men think, only' of themselves. Yet in the end the Chinese people will know good from bad. They will know what to do with their own young men who have betrayed them in the sad days lof this decade. They will know how to honour the foreigners who Ihave laboured for reconstruction.
Tsai Ao.
They are beginning tg honour Tsai Ao. They are beginning to appreciate his merit. On Christmas Day, 1915, this young man in distant Yunnan raised the standard of revolt against Yuan Shih-kai be-[cause he would not see his country under a military dictatorship. Per-conversation. Then he spoke. "The An elderly Chinese listened to much talk on the ills of China. He listened attentively, engrossed in the haps Tsai Ao failed ideal, that is, to avoid the monarchy and to see his country a true democracy. Those things come neither in a day nor with one revolution. But his province has never acknowledged the authority of those in Peking, nor has it played much with Canton, Yunnan has developed on its own lines, under very difficult cumstances, for the province is poor and hard to cultivate. Yet, the imines are rich and some day will be worked. Tsai Ao will not be forgotten in the history of
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