The Archive · 1928

Three Principles in Practice

The "Provinces of Hupeh and Honan are places where the Communist Party has committed the most cruel and barbarous acts, Though every one recognizes the evil influences of the Communist Party, yet is it not because that members of our own Party and great majority of the people do not really understand the principles of the Party and are thus easily misguided by external forces? The Three Principles of our Party are indispensable and inviolable doctrines for salvation of the country to-day. They are rather moderate and should satisfy the mind of the people of the whole country. However, if the people receive no proper training' so as to rectify their misunderstandings and to get rid of their sus-Pieions, no common creed or mutual trust can exist, to say nothing about reconstruction. hereby declare our poli ciples as follows:—(1) To begin anew with the Party. Our principle rule the country by the Party, and all political activition are to be guided by party principles, we should promptly correct the revolutionary theories of the pro-communistic period in order to tunity the ideas of the members, dissolve all factional views, and of operate under the guidones of Three Principles.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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