June 27, "We have often held forth in these columns against the damage'that has been done and is being done in China by slogans sand catch phrases, s0 often fact that we have recently been nent by various friends clippings from foreign periodicals which other more distinguished authorities make out similar cases against foolish propagand slogans. One of the best, a article in the "Atlantic Monthly for March, by Cloud Mullins, should be read by all because of its intrinsic worth, apart from less exploitation of the people jages before the fathers of the Soviet learned the value of the monotonous repetition of an untruth, When a party of outlaws formed by the amalgamation jof a number of small bands and sets out to devastate the country jand indulge in wholesale torture and massacre, the bandits are not content to call themselves, bandits, but must satisfy the proprieties by dubbing their band the Cleanse-the-Nation Army, or the Popular-Righteous-mess Army or something equally fine.
No general ever sets out conquer new territory, on a cam-ign that will reduce millions lof the people to distraction and misery, without first letting the Imation know that he is reluctantly taking up arms to relieve poplular distress, punish traitors jand fiends in human form and convert the territory that he has communities under its control which are all but ruinous.
The right of the mob to run amok has been duly recognized, out the ordinary civie rights of} ithe decent people have been contemptuously ignored. The Jone fundamental right of man Jwhich is founded upon no false premises, the right to equal opportunity, wae more clearly recognized in China a generation than it is now. As in Russia, we have here under a supposely liberal movement a despotism by exclusive and jealous cliques, financed by imposition jand extortion, supported by a ruthless military organization that tolerates neither free speech, ior political rivalry, and screen-led from the world's vision and Judgment by the energetic dissemination at home and abroad Jof a brief catalogue of catch phrases. This make-believe is point of denouncing foreign firms in China for exploiting Chinese labour will say to Mr. Chu's latest opinion, Only the, most profound ignorance of conditions here could betray even superficial thinker into believing that any foreign firm - that employs Chinese thereby exploits them. If the complete industrialization of China is the only, econom surely a partial Possible solution of—China's
industrialization is, at least, a palliative of her trouble. Some praise must be due to the pioneers who, in the early days, ventured to invest their capital in industrial undertakings, took the sweepings of the labour market and trained the incompetents into efficient technical workers—cotton spinners, engineers and constructors of the skyscapers, that astonish the tourist as he sails up the Huangpu. The men who did these things benefited complaints or public denundations, on the assumption that it embarrassed the local foreign ichiets of the service who were doing their best. We gather yom complaints that are reach-jing us now, however, that the public's patience is\ wearing threadbare and that, im Shanghai's estimation, tolerance is ceasing to be a virtue, The postal authorities have been given long grace to improve their service and regain control lover their Bolshevized staff, but ithe results are not satisfactory. From inquiries that we have made among persons who keep a correspondence with Peig, the minimum time yecordfor mail between that city land Shanghai is ten days, the average time fifteen days and the maximum twenty-five days, A check made in the North on mail between tientsin and Peking seems to prove that the the support it gives us in our the curse of China, and the his eye upon into a veritable Ely-campaign against catch phrases. acceptance of it is the curse of China in two ways. They pro-sum. The citizen of the Re-In the opening sentence the diplomacy. China will get no-vided a livelihood for a large public of China knows precisely, where until it is abandoned; a number who would otherwise author says:—"Throughout history the curse of Democracy has what to expect, so he prepares lwo shall have no relations with have been hard put to it to find been the mesmeric power—that such wealth as' he is willing to China on a basis of mutual daily bread and in the process, devote to the ransom of his esteem and respect until we make conducted an educational work phrases exercise." China, there-family and property, to several it clear that we are not deceived jof great value. To take a man fore, is not alone in being the lyeers' taxation in advance or it. This last is not only a who has never seen a more com victim to "slogans" that either to a contribution to a forced! duty to ourselves but is eivilizaplicated engine than a wheel-mean nothing or which are, when Hoon, and buries the rest. Ox, tion's obligation to the Chinese barrow and transform him into analyzed, found to be tharoughif time and communications are people who are the victims of skilled mechanic is no mean ly unsound; but in China, while favourable he takes refuge in ruinous exploitation under this feat, and when that has been Jose attempt is made than else-foreign Settlement. The for-where to apply what appear (9 isereen of "mesmeric phrase done on the grand scale that has be benevolent doctrines express-ignor, however, because he is provided China with tens of accustomed to think of principles {thousands of, more or less, skilled in catch phrases to practical life, they serve as a smoke screen jes something that the subseribled workers "it, is a national for more positive damage to the jer to them is bound to put into
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