HoLpinc as it does a special place in the economy of Chink politics the Kuominteng Patty to-day stands in an important if possibly precarious position. There has been a definite split, in it, and a great deal ofthe future peace. of China ti may. depend upon whether the moderate minority can receive cient support from other elements to overcome its extremists.' Thine and again we have been assured by perfectly honest members of the Kuomintang that itis not Bolshevist organization, but that it has become so int practice, or at least as far us those elements in it which are able to give practical effect to their ideas, there can be no doubt judging by how things have gone in Carton, As generally happens in these movements the moderates have een edged out, leaving the extremists in full control. Butt now the moderate minority Ya rebelled, and through the tu: strumentality of the Kuomintang Clab of Peking has dissociated itself from the majority now engaged in a Red reign of Canton, snd has shown the way for other Yodies in China to combine Yor the elimination of this dronfl menace. This admission of Bolshevism within the party comes unhappily very late in the '@ay, for had it been recogntzct! before, Canton might have been saved from its present ordeal, but still we must not ery over spilt milk, and rather offer the movement' whatever moral sap-port it is in our power to give. Especially we may take heart of grace from the very important, fact that the one political society in China which approaches tu organization to a political a sociation in the West espoused this important move-
As we have said, these events of recent days invest the sootety with much importance, and its history will attract attention, it is, in reality, the outcome of five separate political parties which had more'or less common aims brat distinct rivalries owing to the Jealousies of their leaders, Of these the principal was the Tungmenhui, with which Dr. Sun Yat-sen had bound up his future, and which had its origin in Japan shortly after the conclusion of the Sino-Japanese War. Just after that struggle had come to an end many Chinese students went to continue their studies in Japanese universities, and apparently they founded thie society which to-day has something Ike fts counterpart in the Japanese Kokaminto. Tt was a eftizens' party'and aimed at the government of the country through parliament. Until the revolution in 1911 ft carried on tts work in secret, bat continual grained strength both in Canton and Shanghai, and soon after The overthrow of the monarchy came into greet prominence. These wore the Cays of an infinite amber of societies: every body, of men with xsptrations for the nattomal welfare started one; 60 every trank; and a good Tew Peopte who hoped to make money, out of the business. The making societies in China, however, ties for long been almost one of the lending domestic industries. In those days tt was that the Tungmentai united with four other bodies and formed the Kuomintang, and prior to the events of MHS it appeared Possess the best chance of com-trolling PatHament. The tactics of Yuan Shibrkei defeated it, they defeated every party aspiring to Parliamentary powers, auf there was an end to its hopes tin, Peking for years to come.
Now as to the Bolshevism the Kuomintang. Tt may come
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