At no time in the history of Chins has our country, the oldest nation that survives, been in a more critical state than at present. In fact her very existence has been threatened. If the Government of Chins is "government of the people, by the people and for the people," then "the individual citizen is responsible for the rise or fall of the nation."
Such being a life-or-death national problem, the solution of which reste upon the activity or apathy of the people, every Chinese man or wé- man, who has his or her woontry at heart, should unanimously re-spend to the summons of duty at this momentous hour.
China has @ territory of more than 4,000,000 square miles, pon the products of which our people have lived without want for six thousand odd years, and yet large portion of which hes remained unused for centuries. Inside of it have been stored, for untold ages, unlimited quantities of mineral resources which have been much coveted by many adventurers. She hae a large population of 400,000,000 people, who, as it has been proved, when properly trained, can be turned into the best economic factors, With such opulent and potential assets as Nature has thus bequeathed her, China should have been one of the richest countries on earth, and able to stand on an equal with, if not to lead, the other Powers in the world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.