The Chinese people do not and cannot think for themselves. They are inactive and spiritually—apa~ thetic. They suffer from the ever recurring hallucinations of an antiquated environment, There are no active men in the entire country who are sufficiently trusted to lead without big guns and armi Joot their neighbours and friends and Justify such vandalism as an hom-Age which patriotism demands of the ultimate beneficiaries. There is no national conscience or cohesion. Inexperience and self-dopendenes ave the order of the day and truly pitiful, The Chinese race always takes it for granted that " change of government is a transformation. They are totally unconscious of the fact that a mere change of men without a change of systems is use Jess. They do not appreciate or comprehend the wide distinction between a great man and a grent inwllect. They frankly and inheventbelieve that their superior wisdom cand their exalted virtue is the duke panacea for all mortal ills, No Realization of Conditions As an analytical student of Chinese conditions has well said: "T trouble with China is that she persists in living unto herself alone when she has been overtaken by the industrial revolution and does not Know it." The Chinese peuple do not realize, and how could they, that republics must work with the vow material of which they are composed. The Chinese look upon the family and not upon the individual 'a8 the unit of all social, moral, anil political progress. China embraces fan area of 4,000,000 square miles and from 400 to 450 millions of people—one third of the population of the world. These peoples are seat tored over 22 provinces or states and og stated many of them do not speak the same language and do not understand many of the dialects of the several provinces. China is and has always been opposed to the new, either in transportation or in methods of communication, and this attitude is reflected to-day in her national opposition to railways and modern industrial methods solely be-ensue the one interfered with the pack horse employment of her eoalpopulation and the other with the piece work occupation of her a ans. This attitude is as obstructive is destructive of all real pro-
Tt is estimated that $400,000,000 4 year is lost in industrial pursuits Because there ate no railroads. 9 transport such products to the do-mastic and foreign sca port markets the country. This is move than the cost of all the railroads. China." These Chinese do not and cannot constructively. step" heath The bacon bax had we contact with public affairs. The people were aught to leave such matters to Albers. They do not comprehend oe imnierstand the fundamental aspects of free goverment, They are slug. fishly Ineking. in intuitive. "They ave not, to put it in a word, mas. tered themselves. There is a'shortage of mental grasp in all of this turmoil covering 16 years, and diplomiatic inaction has not ameliorate ed these feverish conditions which perceptibly becoming chronic.
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