There being no government or Jaw in China submission to. blackmail and corrupt polities is the line of the least resistance, and the only protection the property interests enjoy is to compromise with confiseation, There is in fact no bench or har in China qualified to enforce and to maintain law. The Bolshe-corruptionists, and the navies, with rare' and con-spacious exceptions have stirred up the student class who care more for radicalism than for knowledge.
the ulterior in everything id off ready to accuse their friends and to impute the basest tives to their onerous and un~ selfish conduct. The students begin at the top and not at the bottom with the result that the masses are ignorantly indifferent and in their smug complacency understand that a democratic from of government merely the synonym of down with capitalism and out with the foreigners, Those young men and young women are fundamentally ignorant of the problems of the hour. They are incoherence What they say may sound well, but what they omit is most instructive. They varnish nonsense with the charm of xound, and reach the comations and never the intellect of the populace. Responsibility has one to their heads. They basta Tate great parpoaws and they deny any reengnition of the rights of othors, which is the very mainspring: fat thi democracy they Chinese people demonstrate ixeapacity for self government their every effort to obtain it. Wh T recall these student, educational. ard guild movements in China, foaming under the lash aral spear of conmuniam, am reminded of the reflections of President Madison in A comment upon the United States Constitution, that, "While every citizen might be a Socrates, every Assembly would still Obviously he meant, that the inexperienced and the untrained intellect possoases neither the judgment to conceive, the understanding to direct nor a maturity of vision sutticiently balanced to be interestted with the solution of the practical problems of human life.'
All Precepts Violated These students violate the pre cept of every age in world history, that it is the duty of the young to gather knowledge and of the old to) use it. But in the case of China the oid have surrendered t> 2 mobocracy directed and controlled by a military despotism. These young men and young women shout unison that capitalism Western imperialism, extraterritoriality, and the so-called unequal treaties are the ailments from which China suffering to-day. This is not true, and China knows it. China knows it even down to or up to her stu dent classes. China knows to-day that without these contacts she would be in a worse position than she is now in and that if these so-
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