The Archive · 1929

Party More Than Persons

In a word, it is again North a divided nation, of China fof 1923, One dares not sit in judgment, as to whose is the responsibility for such a erfsis nor must one: be hasty to call names. The Rear ganizationists are not Communists nor is Nanking militaristic, The Kuomintang is going through transitional period during which there is bound to be misunderstand. ing and dissatisfaction, but, in this country, every political indication points to party rather than perianal [government; that is, after a period fof ideological confusion, the Kuomintang, which was for' years only 'a party' of opposition and revolt, will become the party of reconstruetion and regeneration, not by mere slogans but by facts and accom pushments. The slogan era naturally persists because it is easier to shout slogans than to do a job of work, but responsibility and the pressing needs of the country must ultimately have a sobering effect upon the most inveterate propagandist. Therefore, even such a man as Dr. Hu Shi indeed sinned, does not grow bitter and antagonistic, With all its faults and shortcomings, with all its petty pogressions and the childishness of Tang Pu leaders, the Kuomintang done better by China in its two or three years of administration than a decade and a half of northern militarism. And in the term Kuomintang, Nanking and the Reorganizationists must be included,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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