Nanking's Olive Branch: The Diving Right-to Rule: Municipal Salaries: British Salesmanship: A Scottish Romance that there are scores of gentlemen in this community who are come from the best of foreign families, and many of them with splendid techni pecially party government is_comparatively a new thing in China. Party government has been experienced upon in countries with wholly different historical back: grounds, wholly different national Psychologies and wholly different political traditions and concepts from our own. He must also remember that it took from the time lof the Magna Charta in 1216 to the abolition of the rotten boroughs under Queen Victoria six hundred years later to establish real mocracy in England.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen realized this! more than any other of his political rivals and opponents. He realized in 1911 that as a citizen of a great democracy the average Chinese was like a new born baby blinking his eyes before a torch of liberty. So he advocated a period of political tutelage, during which the Kuomintang should function as the regent for the administrative direction of the nation, He was opposed and overruled, The result was the babies" played with fire and before they realized the folly, they were ind instituting a monarchical movement to place Yuan Shih-kai on the: throne, Warned by our own sad experience and desirous of having reasonably stable government, tionalist China has entrusted the fexerciso of its political rights to the Kuomintang party during the period of tutelage, which is limited to a term of six years. For the last two years the Government has been able' under this plan to maintain its stability with only minor changes in the personnel, which is record for contemporary Chinese history and is longer in life than the Hoover administration in the United States and the Labour Gov-! ernment in England. Through this stability, "Messrs, Chiang Kai-shek and T. V. Soong" have been able to re-establish a reasonably good prestige and credit abroad and at home, because during these two years, Nanking in spite of over Whelming obstacles, has been able to exhibit a concrete record of corner stones Inid for an edifice of reconstruction. We only need point to the increase in the mileage of highways, the improvements in telegraph and radio communications and air transportation, the restora. tion to normal traffic along the rail-the encouragement of Unless Dr. Hu wants us to drift back to another state of anarchy,, seems therefore a one-party government is the best thing for China twin the Leftists, may we refer him {eit Baaevist Could a and Turkey, Katy or Russia of to-day li tical party. be. tolerated
Or fs it advisable to have such a arty under prevalent conditions?
Wo all agree that Nanking has many along stride to make before itvean come out of ite medievalism find become "a full-edged deme-Exncy, but. impatience and_muck-Taking Would mot help mater our quent of progress; men like Dr H's type can. not Indeed. absolve themselves fromthe charge that they themselves have been shrink: ing from thole responsibilities, Shanghat, Sept, 1, 1980.
To the Editor of the 'NowrH-Ciina Dairy News.'
Sin—All well-wishers of China 1 must welcome to-day's letter by "Stability" on the above subject, fuphalding the cause of Nanking. The usual way with Nanking to its own Chinese subjects is to employ force, rather than reason, All Chi-3 are subject to the approval of ite terrible censors who hhaye no hesitation to' sweep clean' all' news or views unpleasant to] Nanking, What a blessing and re-Hief it would be to all of us, Nanking, instead of suppressing adverse criticism, had, as "Stabili is doing in your columns, tried to justify itself by argument -and rea-stability" throws the _whole blame of this internecine warfare on ithe northern rebels. The truth of the Disbandment Conference will probably never be known to us outders. What is certain is, none of ithe major generals was willing reduce his own forces, unless he bad first the positive proof that his rivals were reducing their forces at least to an equal extent. There iwas even the rumour that Obiang' [Kai-shek sought to benefit himself by others' disbandment. In any. lease, (Chiang did nothing to convince his rivals of the falsehood of that rumour. These rivals left the (Conference in disgust; all sides immediately made war preparations by levying rew forces; the irony of the situation was, the so-called disbandment conference resulted not in. olsbandnent but its very opposite!
say that Nanking was blamele: {im this matter must make on" part and unjust, to say the least, Then "Stability" goer on to say that "Chiang Kai-shek fought not to is personal liking, but under orders} lof the Central Administration." As Chiang Kai-shek were not the Jdispated master at Nanking, but its obedient servant! ig Nanking ]were mot the puppet and Chiang the real man behind it! Such official truth is as absurd and ridiculous a5} ito say that the Nanking Government acts not to its personal liking, but under orders of the people of Chit "Stability" again predicts that the [Northern coalition will collapse before long. For the last two years, Nanking has been making the very) Jsame assurance of coming peace; but alas, is not peace as remote jover? Even if the present northern coalition collapses, who knows if, as it repeatedly happens, another and more serious coalition will not. fol-on its very heels?
We have] leiple of one party dictatorship. "Stability" writes quite a lot, his arguments rambling from Mi Charta to rotten boroughs, from Sun Yataen to Yuan Shih-kai, not against one nay, I am even willing to accept one man dictator: ship, provided that one man is hon-jest, unselfish and sympathetic to all people in China. But I say, no man Jand no party has any divine right} to rule over us. Mencius considered {bad kings guilty individuals whom everybody tas the right to over-ie|throw. In the same way, the ruling, party forfeits its right of ruling, fence it fights merely for its own regardless of only to point out to "Stabili some men are multi-millionaires, while the country is getting ever-increasingly chaotic and the poor people, their country-men, are becoming poorer and more miserable than ever!
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