Since 1911, the birth of the Republic, she has had eight presidents, Bnd forty-four governments, and to: flay she has no. government, not even the semblance of law atid tier. She has never chosen a ruler the consent of the people. "She lias never been and isnot now a fie and be ip years and years moved from such a form of gov Grament. The afetals are pail no! salaries. After paying the corral rrovernment the tasses expected they permitted to take all they can Squeeze, even thovzh it leas to Viackmail, and it always involved corruption. "How could she have self-government when its sirist socred trusts are regarded as a pri-vote snap, even by her leading statesmen? Loyalty to an oath of office in China is unknown when it interferes with individual opportun-son recently held and people voted. China has had no training for self govern ment. She was never interested in looking before or after. She has had no preliminary education in self government. The. Anglo-Saxon studied, reflected and pondered in every changing ethical and philoso" Phicil meditation for 2,000 years over the problem of democracy while the Chinese people with 3,000 years of oligarchic despotism behind them are tendered democracy and accept republicanism—overnight, Thrones of the World Napoleon once said: "It is in Asia that the destinies of Europe will one day be settled," and Rus-very graphically and construc:
ively expressed it: "Since first the dominion of man was asserted over the earth three thrones have been set on the sand, the throne of Tyre, Venice ang England. Of the first of the great powers only the memory remains, of the second only the ruins, the third which inherit, their greatness if it forget their example, may lead through prender eminences to less pitied destruction." These reflections apply to lization to-day and not alone to england, None of the nations will see Russia masquerading in the robes of social uplift and wailing her assumed grief inarticulate for all the exploited, the ignorant and the backward races of the globe. Tt the brazen attempt of a profile gate paganism to debauch the ignor ant masses of the world ever ready to merchandize their convictions and enviously obstruct the advancing march of civilization that the beast may have unobstructed, ascendancy' in man, This purpose is being pursued on every occasion in the United. States by certain unscrupulous agitators and parlour Bolshovies intoxicated with their own. importance, whose every act, spoken or written, shows their perfidity to democracy' and Punie faith to mankind. These people do not. realize that Russia pictures China fas spearhead of the communistic attack, Russia is building up a new empire. She is aiming to toar down every government except her own and with the rude eye ut the marplot to convert all people into communistic soviets, She is carrying on invisible war in China, nnd China thinks she is using and doceiving Russia, However this may be Russia maintains a Soviet Col-
Canton, and the Nationalist army is instructed and drilled by Red Russians, Russia is, furnish ing daily the damning proof of her Ditter treason to God and man and her seathing contempt for the fundamental principles of free and unmolested Republican government, She is aiming to bring the caravans of China, India, Persia, Turkey, Turkestan, Arabia, Egypt,.the Balkans, Greece and the British the Dutch and the French possessions to Moscow where the proletariat and the splendour of a reverted type will rule a world where Judas Isearthas supplanted Jesus Christ The struggle is closing in and to anyone who looks and sees us he runs and not as he listens and sympathetically hears, the future is ill omened and calls for m humanizing of lization and a strong unified policy against social unrest if the world is to remain a habitable place for mankind.
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