The medicine for the Communist is more pertinent and seems to be borrowed from the microbe hunters who turned one microbe against another. The government proposed to do for the farmer everything which the communists themselves wished to do, with one exception: that the Kuomintang would respect prive property rights of the landlord. Government reconstruction is to include (1) a clean-up of'corrupt poli: ücians ju the. district governments; (2) loaning money at low rates of interest; (3) free education,. free health service and free agricultural improvement. The programme is e: cellent. It answers every problem of the farmer except over-population. if this plan is ever carried out, the revolutionist in China will be preaching to deaf ears.
In 1937, only four years after these reconstruction plans were organized. itis very easy to find fault with the work. Many near-sighted writers spent a few days or hours examining the work, and branded it a total failure. M we understand clearly that any observation to-day is purely tentative, that a 4-year old baby cannot reveal its own destiny, then, it is possible to discuss the present accomplishments, the shu.: omings and the probable progress in the next few years.
Consider the first point on the government programme: the clean-up of corruption in the district governments. It is well known that the government appoints the provincial governor, and the governor or his subordinates select the district magistrates. Each magistrate has a small political machine in his district, including tax collectors and inspe tors who enforce all government rulings upon the farmer.
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