Aug. 1.
There seem to be two distinct tendencies in the thinking of the youth of China with regard to foreign relations. A very large group assume that China's woe as though magic wand, and the foreigners forced down to the level of veritable coolies.
Artful element, awkward position of China vis-Avis of Japan and hopes that: Great Britain and the United States will pull China's chestnuts out of the fire as they have [hitherto done on occasions. They calculate on the cupidity of British and American business interests, which they hope will [supervene all sense of the fitness of things.
Both sadly err—tragically err.
regards the revision of the treaties, its accomplishment. should, in the ordinary course of events, make little difference. in the condition of China, There is not a single feature of the {treaties which does not, at the moment, operate favourably to China, "And this is said even at ithe risk of carrying logic. close the borderline of what must, to simple minds, appear to be ridiculous. Even the conventional tariff, which some Chinese find so irksome, helps China, be-Jeause in the present phase of confused thinking, only the conventional tariff averts a complete destruction of trade by excessive and whimsical taxation.
[As for China's infant industries, they seem to thrive in the International Settlement of Shanghai, under the protection of foreign troops, while they are stagnating in most places in the interior because of military exactions. It was Shanghai and Hongkong which made the Kuomintang possible; it was Shanghai which paid the cost of the Northern Expedition. On the other hand, thousands of Chinese troops are dying bec: the missionary physicians been driven from the interior, while agricultural improvements have ceased because the missionary experiment stations can afford no assistance to China's agriculturalists. In a well ordered China, extraterritoriality would be an absurdity and perhhaps the foreigner not more necessary than he is in any other country. In the present chaos of China, extraterritoriality makes ible for the foreigner to remain in China, and he alone protects the "Chinese—peop! {from spatiation by their official Jdom. Facts speak for theme selves, but unfortunately youth, in most places, thinks with its fadrenalin glands rather than with its brain, As to the assumption that Great Britain and the United States will go to war with Japan save China from further humiliation, nothing can be further from the truth. Nothing jean save China from: further humiliation except genuine unfication, truthful disbandment of the coolie armies, honest organization of efficient agencies lof government, effective substitution of law for the tempera mental flights of the Genro; In a word, if China is not to be humiliated, she must be a nation and a state in her acts and obligations, The play of Nanking can impress no one but the maudlinly sentimental, who admire the weak and hate the strong; who love confusion and detest order Japan had, it is true, taken advantage of Britain's difficulties jin 1926 and did some trade in South China but the Chinese need net.use that "argument further to confuse issues. As not interfere in Manchuria, it is not likely that either Great Britain or the United States will object to Japan's measures to protect her Y. 2,000,000,000 worth of interest: for her 200,000 subjects, in China, {it cannot reasonably be expected after Hankow, Kiukiang and Nanking, after the insults to Great Britain and the United States, after the attacks on missionaries and the sequestration of British and American property throughout Nationalist territory, that Great Britain and the United will interfere with Japan' 1s to avoid a similar treatment of Japani gloomy ones. The Chit The facts of the situation is natural optimist. He 04 piece of his country from Tsinan to Tsingtao held by a foreign Power and his only hope is that that Power will become bankrupt. through the expensiveness of the operation and that two other Powers will become so viciously that they will fight And meanwhile the Chinese do nothing while their militarists offer what Westerners would call a frauduent, and Communists would call, a—counter-revolutionary, plan for the disbandment of troops, which if analyzed is little less than a perpetuation of military feudalism in China, If the youth of China faced facts, there might be happy prospects for the future; as long as they meander in an emotional maz China's true friends grow creasingly pessimistic.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.