Now that the highly coloured but junconvineing aureole woven by per fervid chauvinism around the posthumous figure of Sun Yat-sen has served its immediate purpose, and tke carefully engineered adulations lof millions who know nothing about him apart from a nodding acquaint. lance with Kuomintang have died it is perhaps possible to view more honestly hie p2rtsus ackiove~ wats in the political sphere. Let the seid at once that only those ug understand, in China's present jurheaval, what' Carlyle called th JActual in the French Revolution, fave in position to judge. Political lirreprassible demagogue, a sentient jealking-machine rendered dangerous by flattery, rather than a true lead-red by principle. The fact ye was able to engineer the original revolution from a series of safe vantage-points outside China against a weak government and after many years of failure, did not require talents of any higher order than a glib lounge and a facile pen. These could awaken the enthusiasm of more virile men with their eye on the Actual plus their own inter-fests, but they could not, and in the event did not, direct their efforts in ito constructive courses, not expunge the corrupt personal equations of venal ambition, As a result Dr. Sun remained to the end a mere tool in ithe hands of his reputed satellites out real masters; for in the real China only one who is an actual Teader and not a mere talker can prevent satellitism from becoming omnipotent, which in his case it did, ided many an inspiring pome, but his winking satd:
did the duncing, and the tune, would lead them on till the dance Jdegenerated into a roaring corybanrag, in which all the wonderes vainciptes hinted at in the music lof the inspired pianist would div-appear in undisguised ruin, with the musician himself caught in the contugious enthusiasm of economic vandalism, and finally called on to justi fy with " concluding symphony thi violence of himself and party, Ihaving been a necessary incident in the progress towards the principles which hnd not been arrived at. the revolution initiated by Sun sen ever should, in its claude highly speculative future, arri some merciful miracle at an effciont and progressive government, it will by principles and methods dia-vertically opposite to those employed Ly this self-appointed questman of jeconomie minaes, and the eoistruce tive work will be done by: men who recognize that valuable and docteihaste is not a substitute for statesmanship, who have learned that ethereal ttopias cannot be built out of dissentient clay, and that wholesale massacre ix mot the prop. jer alternative to adisisting their own fallibility.
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