"Who established those king: doms? Let me tell you; it foreign missionaries and merdhay They have broken up much 1 and often those who are in charge of such little kingdoms are only two or three foreign women. Some of them are Americans, some Bel~ gions and some Dutch and all kinds of litigation and public business are managed by these foreign women themselves. Now, you think of, it! The women of other countries dare the danger of the long journey to these far instant lands without a tremor and, needless to say, our women sit idly at home, not #0 much as stepping outside their own front door. Even our mon do not dare to take one step aprond toward distant parts, A' number of Honan men go to Shensi in search of a livelihood and, although this is a ¢hbouring "province and cannot be called distant, when they are about to set out their women seize the lapel of their gowns and sob out Ai-ya, my loved one, why will you go to that far-away place?
"Friends, think of it, our people have not the enterprise to tackle even a small journey like that. If we continue to be as spineless as this what is to become of us? Other, people's women spread their sai to the wind and travel ten thousand 1i to accomplish their purposes, and we?—We do not progress a single inch in anything.
Let us Blame Ourselves "In it any wonder we are laughed at by the Imperialist countries who treat us contemptuously as though we were their little—grandsons? They do not even oatcem us as much as their cats or dogs. Oum ancestors bequeathed to us these great rivers, these boundless hills, Shall we murmur at them for giving us too great an inheritance? No, let us blame ourselves, their unworthy children, that we do not rise up, we do not exert ourselves, we are not willing to endure hardship, Brothers, T have just retura-from this great Northwest; it is a wonderland of brand spaces and fertile fills. There melons grow to thirty or forty pounds in weight and people eat them sitting over the fire. The summer is hot enough to ripen the melon and the succeeding winter comes so fast that fires are needed before the time melons is past. From this you See how fertile the land is."
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