"After, however, the establish-mont of the Republic, our comrades, thinking that the Revolution had already been brought to a successful conclusion, gradually regenerate. ed into a state of complacent stagnation, which fact gave the chance to Yuan Shih-kai to stage his Imperial coup d'état.
"It was with the realization of this state of inaction, that the late Party Leader reorganized the Party and brought about its rejuvenation and the subsequent success of the Northern Punitive Expedition. But what we have already accomplished is only a small part of what we have ket for ourselves, The more adverse the circumstances, the more should we strive to overcome them and make ourselves conquerors of our environment.
"AIL our comrades should, therefore, follow the immortal spirit of our late Party Leader in the struggle for the salvation of the cour try.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.