The Archive · 1924

By Rodney Gilbert

(Continued from Last Week) embargo. upon money of order as the lending of money and credit through concerted. or the sale of arms, The re-nation is even more important cognition. of Peking, Canton or than. an embargo upon arms. any. other administration tall: the political cliques which vue. one or another part of China China: by the Powers is nothi but." blessing upon organi o-the discomfiture of the Ohinese "producer and the foreign trader, ploitation of the people and upon trouble-making, organized

Hie money that makes the wheel the hypocrisy which veils these go round. A predatory. oficial high endeavours under a trans-'8. "uppers" falls, to parent curtain of administrative Pisces over night and ite lead forms. The retarn upon such {ecome parishs whom anyone recognition is absolutely nothing Stee to stone. Loyalty in Chinese [but increased official courage and pobitieal circles can only "be assurance in the repudiation of ought with money. The same is agreements, the breach of trea: teu in the army and in Chinese ties, defaulting on debts and the public' life generally, Every voatoned outrages which are per-Molar released directly, or petrated almost daily upon the 'Giroctly Yo. ap. official clique pro-persons and property of for-Jonge tts life and buys somewhere jin Chin considerably more than 'Against the sentiments of the ardoliie's worth of disorder. majority of foreigners in' Chi Peace is dependent upon dis: and against the will of tne cipline and. if there is anything majority of the Chinese people, in' which China, needs discipline the representatives of fifteen and in which officialdom is badly poiled it is finance. The money-Bowers entered into. most un-Tender and the liberal creditor are responsible for ai very his, Minre of China's trouble months icy traded all the dmministration min. Beking:" tow ifed bargain with a new

Mince" which the world has C0 offer to any official group China, has contrived to pub her XILLING TH GOLDES 0008, China for a signature to a docu-own embargo upon bot foreign ment, which the new administeanud domastio credit. by defaulting, tion had neither the will nor the Widely nnd discrediting her bonds power to execute, 'The results of on all markets, She has made this huge folly are, commensurate with "its size Since then we itjapparent to all past and would-"Fendors that a! security which have had nearly one hundred eunniot. be foreclose' upon is no security at all. The time seems eigners, mostly within—Peking's outrageous assntlte "upon for to be, coming when Chinese nominal jurisdiction, " stalemate officialdom will have to, subsist fon the Gold Franc' question, 2 and entry on its dered: ficod of unparalleled impertinence Chinese revenues, which from Canton, a treaty brusquely tome beeauee there is a limit ject aside in Shantung and a vastly increased, volume of noise possible revenues, about China's sovereign right. there is ti strict Term and domestic boot the foreigner into limbo. How anything else China, is at the sane time held strictly to her—obligations, @xpected is beyond the writer' bastion will improve conditions comprehension. We withhold no if, nothing else does, 'When inducement to good' behaviour. Ofilnidom fels th urgent need We pick out a politico-military group which has been guilty of tom without, officialdom money, and none is com every possible excess and it regularity; which we know doer thorter, "The Chinete.shoep will tiling the, popular Mesee a Title [not want peace unless it, mean undisputed right of exploitation atend awfully short trimming lig has anything Tike fair. ras know regards reunification as nothing but the extension Bae GEE shave in to, eho skit had" onjoye 1 little peace of mind, of it prods Held to the and at the same time interrupt geographical limits; we give this his feeding, he will die like any organization everything it. wants, other sheep' and cut off the supply particularly in the way of "face,"

wool trid mutton, You cannot including the world's mandat> to back promote increasing disorder in rule hundreds of millions Chin by: imposing heavier taxes people who have had nothing to find. exactions without reducing say about it except, to groan production below the point where tudor the weight of its hand; and we then profess to be astonished tune are. collectable. that it does not behave like 2

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