To the Editor of the Noiru-Cutxa Datty News. from the great men of power. How many of us are cowardly slavest: Noll and void indeed is all our tale of freedom and desnoeracy!
Tam, ete, Sm—One cannot bat feel impressed at the long letter on the Shanghai, Sept, 29, 1927, above subject written by your, Chinese correspondent "MLK." It PS, Ihave committed a serious not that there is in the letter any-mistake in thinking that your cor-thing new. and wonderful; what im. respondent "M. K." is one of my.owit presses one is rather the new and countrymen. The fact is, Tam wonderful spirit which "MLK. gifted with by no means an infallible manifests, The faults of Dr, Sun memory; I recalled the nam are evident to all who have received "M. K" in your correspondence any modern education; but no) and it impressed me og if Chincse—at least not so openly and hho used to be a Chinese! And then directly—has yet been bold enough glanced over his letter go hastily to point them out, Cowardly hypo-T caught the words, "if I were cites abound everywhere; honest Chinese," and T did not take the voices have remained too' long [trouble to think any more, nee.
I thank "M. K." none the less for It will surprise some to hear me' his impartial criticism of "things say that I'am a sincere admirer of Chinese, and I feel sure he would Dr. Sun, With all his faults, Dr. regarding nationality. It is not mind the mistake I have made Sun was always an earnest seeker' of trath, He really believed all that] myself who has committed the error he said and wrote; he was shallow, jof preconceived idea and hasty but he was never a hypocrite, He! judgment. But T hope my letter vet out in his mission to save China will be read with appreciation and from tyranny both within and with-sympathy in spite of this mistake cut; he persevered in his work for jon my part—F, D, Z, 20 years; failures never daunted him; death was nothing to him; he was) honest, unselfish, fearless—a.
To the Editor of the truly great man withal, We shal always honour Dr. Sun' as China's "NonmCuixa Day News, great patriot. Before his august Sir—Does it not seem rather a Presence I eauinot but bend my bend, pity that our old friend "P.D.2"
It was not so much De, Sun's ould spoil the good news that "the fault that the present so-called reatest need for China to-day is no Nationalists have proved such a Longer the abrogation of the unequal disgrace both to themselves and to treaties," by including in the nega: the ered they have professed. tion the extinction of the militarlat These men are not true followers and the suppression of the of Dr. Sun, but rather traitors to, Surely it is a most his noble cause, These men are nee sary and vital measure to sup. mostly selfish; the true religion press Bolshevism wherever it rears they worship ig that of power and sits foul head, and surely the wealth; and Dr. Sun's name is so urgency cannot be overlooked! of much revered only because through jthe Chinese people rousing them it the great desires of their life may selves to do something to curb the have a chance vf being satisfied!
Jenormities of the militarists, hypocrites are bound to spring up Yet ".D.Z.," who will confuse from the four corners of the earth tern duets and realities with flimsy. the moment propaganda takes the ideals, says that the greatest need place of truth. Mere is no end to for China to-day is the "annihilation human depravity; there is no limit of hypocrisy and the upholding of, to a slave's flattery. Goneril and Rogan vied with each other in their truth!" This, after admitting nog the Northerners ave hearttes heurtiens professions of love for despots," and the Nationalists are their aged father, Great noises can "heartless despots and hypocrites coly mean hollowness inside, Dr.
Sun ly raised to the skies; Dr.
What is the good of annihilating Sun ceases to mean anything.
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What schools do not teach the and upholding truth (if this could Three Principles? What public be done), if the "heartless despots" places have not Dr. Sun's picture are left in full possession of the in their walls? What public meet-field? ings do not begin with the reading What is the good, when men like of Dr, Sun's will? Who dares to "F.D.2." waste their time weeping gainsay every word the great doctor. for Dr. Sun, weeping for China, has said? Dr, Sun is a god, a man-weeping for the "utter shameless he is no longer an ordinary sues man's degenerate nature is. man. Before long I feel almost capable of," but who do nothing sure some such tradition as mirac practical?
and miraculous death will T would not accuse "F.D.Z." of up around the sacred person hypocrisy, but the real hypocrites Sun. Confucian temples re those who how! about foreign and Dr. Sun} imperialism," who howl for the sit there la his place. Chris cancellation of the so-called unequal tianity shall be wiped out from Chins and Sun Yat-senisnt shall treaties, win on the slightest pretext set up "protests," the while they. reign instead in undisputed splend-servilely accept a condition worse our! than slavery, because slaves often I weep for Dr. Sun; 1 weep for have kind miastors, but they have China; I weep for the utter shame-not. lessnety man's degenerate nature The real hypocrites are the men fe capable of. There was atime of China who, out of fear for their when all the great men in Rome own skins, welcome each Licensed fall before Nero the, there was a time when brigand as he steps into power, with the great scholars in China, fagiying and slogan shouting, while they know themselves in their strove to be the foster-sons_ a foster grandsons of Wei Chung [own hearty for sycophants, who the all powerful eunuch at the end have not the courage or backbone of the Ming Dynasty. How I pity to make a fight for betty and the worldly great men! They may freedom and so win for their nation live in princely magnificence; but 1 that recognition and respect that are would die a thousand deaths before given to deeds and not to words, I could be prevailed up to imitate Tam, ete. their ways,
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