To the Editor of the "Nontu-CHINA DAILY News."
Sin—The military chiefs and! other officials move about over this country with soldiers and retainers worse than they did in the worst of the monarchical days, They are a: difficult to approach and their attendants squeeze as of yore, The Chinese entirely ignore the simplicity which is supposed to accompany democratic and republican ideas, The pity of it all is the people are ina state of terror and more hopeless and helpless under the present regime than they have] children they howl for exteality abolition as a child ries for some impossible thing. If they got it they would not know what to do with it and yet utterly incompetent to handle it, They know: nothing of justice or how to administer it. Witness the recent extravagant behaviour of the offcials in Manchuria over the passport Every little petty local official issues what laws and regulations he likes, especially if he controls a few soldiers. Can the Chinese not understand that in any. civilized atate only the elected representatives of the people can make lays and then only when meeting oficially to speak for the nation?
'What a long way the Chinese have' to fo before they unders! standards of governm Tam, ete, Reason. Up Country, Feb, 8, 1925.
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