It fort the fpflure to realize these facts but the knowledge of them that prompts Wellington Koo and Eugene Chen to their supreme impertinences. It is because these truths are so self-evident toat they feel called upon to humiliate us and outrage us wherever it done with impunity. The success of the Canton super-tariff means the eventual collapse of. China's credit abroad. That is nothing compared with the face gained for China through the suecessful defiance of 13 Treaty Pow-exe. Wellington Koo's defence of Yang Sen justifies an irresponsible and uncontrollable military adventurer in piracy, extending e licence to him and his kind which is bound to have @ depressing effect upon' trade. "Face" is bought, however, regardless of price, Both Peking' and Canton know that if the Pow-ex. were to abandon their conciliatory position and bring up a few divisions of troops with modern equipment China's 1,900,000 uniformed ruffians would shed their uniforms and snatch up agricultural implements with astonishing alacty; but they also know how obstinately set against any such salubrious undertaking are all the major Powers of the world, so they' play upon this prejudice' against wholesome discipline, becoming bold-their Immunity becomes more gpecches of our Kelloggs and Balfours. They help the folk of the Koo-Chen mentality to the conclusion that we are being unctuous in the face of something that seares us or that we have a kindergarten understanding of Chinese affairs. They see that we are afraid to tell them that we do not recognize their alleged Government in Peking, that we have not the courage to tell them what we could and would recognize, but that we nevertheless continue to deal with Peking through evasive third-person correspondence. We will not agree to extend de facto recognition to Peking, Canton or any other local administration #0 as to hold them to their treaty obligations, but we send them week notes through the mails and give them a chance to thumb their noses at us and tell us that since we do not! Know them they do not know us. Nothing could be more impudent than Eugene Chen's Intest effort in reply to the international protest against Canton's illegal taxes and was more richly de-
A situation is here created which prompts us to ask, not what To answer this we have to take ourselves individually. 'The three Powers that might by concerted action set China abruptly on ther fect and start her doing something usefal are Japan, Great Britain and America. Com= bined we could say 'Scot!" to her' nationalists and their Russian paymasters, restore onder ina few month by dropping cavily upon one or two of her militarists, start the bloc! flowing freely in her vei again by policing her railways and rivers, restore her ere lit by osllecting anid administering her revenues, and produce at once all the capital needed to put her in good running order. Why don't we?
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