Internal strife must stop and unification should be restored as soon as possible now that both our country and people have already been impoverished, says the "Sin-wan pao." But what- our people wish for is the real thing and not unity in name only. The paper can condone the effort of the Government in treating with a section of the South first with the object of ultimately reaching an understanding cannot but express its utmost wonder upon hearing of the way in which the Government is going to form the Reorganization Commission. If the members of this Commission are to be composed of the persons reported, it can only call this an attempt at unification by bribery. The personnel of the Commission will include officials, radicals and_ members of Anfu Club, Chen Hseuh Hui, the Chiaotung, Taolun, and Yenchiu cliques, as well as monarchists and traitors. The most disheartening part of the reported programme for the Commission to follow is the "perversion of public opinion (? press opinion) by purchase." "Could bribes effectively silence criticism? Did not Emperor Hung Hsien (Yuan Shih-kai) and the Anfuites go to extreme lengths in their efforts to pervert and misrepresent the "popular wishes" and fail? Public opinion will always assert itself, and it can never suppressed, much less bought.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.