The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-01
INA REPUBLIC
| ONE YEAR old
TeSS Has Been Made Along
Certain Lines.
HUSIASM IS WANING.

prous Difficulties That Beset the
Government at the Tine Of lts
ablishmert Have Not Yet Been
mounted.
just q year since the drst young
sc republic was established ut
bang and the rebel leader at Han
bottled the foreign consuls Of the
knce OF the new government.
|fter q year under the adminlstra-
of young China 1t would seem
general enthusiasm Is waning.
chinese press, eIcepS for subsi-
political journals and the mis-
Fies, agree that although young
may differ from the old In ex-
and education, the racial char
lstics cannot be altered so sud
|yever, it is pointed out that a ma
that has known only despotism
|ountlesS generations Is no more
TO achieve freedom suddenly than
leopard is to change his spots.
appears to be some tendency to-
provincial autonomy, and this
be augmented by any rebellion
st the present regime. The re-
would probably be to abolish the
rchical principle and Confucian-
Disaffeetion In Provinces.
re is already q general disaffee-
hrough the provinces, perhaps as
= I'D as that under tho last of the
hus. An important result has
o set at naught the authority and
reaty obligations of the central
hment in regard to opium aboli-
A recent editorial on Defiant
n in the North China Herald
The prestige of the republican
. hment has been dealt another
blow, and the time when the
hment in Poking will be able TO
e its will upon the provincial au-
les has been rendered more re-
than ever. According to a tele-
from Peklng, there Is quite an
sive recrudescence OF the cultiva-
|f the poppy throughout Human.
is the impotence of the authori-
Peking becoming more and more
lstrated by the ever increasing
lnce Of the provinces. Notwith-
ng the treaty obligations of the
nment and its instructions to the
bees, at this moment the poppy
5lg cultivated in Kueichau, Shan
|echuen, Chekiang, Kiangsu, Flu
Ind Yunnan."
brevity of the revolution and the
mess with which the new re
= has taken hold partially account
change only in the outer form of
nment, which leaves the masses
fally unconscious and unchanged.
bpondents OF the North China
ID, writing from the provinces,
this feeling Of the hopeless immo-
Of the people at large. what
is happening In other parts Of
5" says one writer, lit Is certain
n Kuantung men and women are
executed in astonishing num-
Crops Sole encouragement.
Hangchau correspondent writes:
are rather tired Of hearing what
ew governors are going to do. so
bey have done nothing. Only
of destruction goes on and things
Improving for the worse"
sually abundant crops through
e provinces offer the sole encour-
Fnt Rice and cotton are reported
boVe the average, and this has
many so called troops" back to
ctive labor. While they are busy
sting tension is being relieved,
bose on the ground feel apprehen-
or the future. A strong central
hment seems the most feasible
put, and as the first step, the es-
|hment Of a dictatorship is favor
TO this end power is being con
hted in the hands of Yuan Shih
hnd hopes for the future rest on
SO far Yuan Shih Kai has shown
Pr an opportunist Of the oriental
guided by an extremely acute
&gencs and sound judgment Of
blow countrymen.