As the pro: s reports from day to day indicate, the tide of battle sweeps on, bringing victory north oF south of the Yangtze as the dice or the dollars may fall. One party advances only to retreat. One warlord after another sells out and expatriates himself from his country because he has, become'a millionaire and therefore ceases to be a communist: The people suffer, their homes are looted and burned, and they are impressed into the army as bandit warriors or they are requisitioned as mere boasts of burden for the looting soldiery.
The entire world is personally interested and deeply concerned. The world is involved ethically, morally, religiously and least of all, commercial ly. Great Britain, Japan, France, Holland, Italy, and the United States are obviously, seriously and vitally involved. What these countries will decide to do is not embraced within this interview or in any opinion here expressed.
Intervention or War These nations are confronted with! the necessity of choosing between friendly, immediate, inexpensive intervention or a future costly devast-[ating horrible war. These nati to-day are drifting timidly and "These nations to-day. are knowingly following and advocing the policy of negativity. Ther tions, like the hermit arab, are liv. ing in the shell of "'watchful wai ing", seemingly oblivious to: th that' logically, negativity always achieves the very -converse of the object sought.
Many say that intervention is as impossible as it is impracticable. Many say that China should be allowed to work out her own. destiny. Those who so argue, suffer from, and are enmeshed in the fallacy of reasoning by analogy. China has tried for 16 syeers to find a George Washington to lead her out of aln wilderness of howling, looting, bei ing, grafting chaos, and neither by night or by day, in answer to her pathetic ery, "Come over into Macedonia and help us out", has there ever been an answering voice or an echo to her cry?
National and Racial Suicide to go on slowly commit ial suicide? Is civilization doing its duty when it stands placidly by and sees a hopelessly Does civilization answer the test when it does not step in for the sake of humanity and aid those who cannot help themselves? Am I to refrain from. preventing a suicide! merely because certain schools of thought proclaim that every in-inal has the right to do with his Is the present civilization of which we boast, worthy of the name or worthy of continuance if it allows a nation not only to destroy itself, by ruthlessly murdering its inhabitants, but to destroy its relationship and its place in the family of nations? In a word, doos civilization transgress or commit evil when it says:—"You have tried for 16 long years to find your way out, to find even 'a pathway that leads to the road that brings you to the light, and you have not only failed, but' in your failure you have brought waste, rapine and ruin upon a peaceful and prosperous people, and you are also bringing utter and hideous dostruction upon those who have the right to look to you for security, salvation and the right to live."
These are the questions which the Chinese problem includes, and upon their correct answer lies the immediate salvation and the future welfare of more than a billion human }souls, and the peace and prosperity. and the continued liberty and hai piness of the entire world to-day.
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