The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-06-25
SUN YAT SEN IDEALISM
OF NEW CHINA MUST WIN
DECLARES ARTHUR DIOSY

London special to Christian Science
Monitor: Arthur Diosy, a friend for
many years Of DR.. Sun Yau Sen, and to
Dr.. Sun despatched his recent famous
manifesto, received a representative of
The Christian Science Monitor at his
club in London. ~
Mr.. Diosy, who is a we'll known au-
thority on far eastern matters, is the
son Of the late Martin Diosy, secretary
during the war of Hungarian indie
pendence in 1848-49, to Louis Kossuth,
and the lifelong friend of the great
Hungarian patriot. After expressing
his warm appreciation of The Monitor,
especially in regard to what he called
the exceptional reliability of it's for
eign news, Mr.. Diosy turned to discuss
the subject which he has made in such
a special way his own. =.
In answer to The Monitor repre-
sentative's first question as to what
was the real state of feeling amongst
the Chinese in regard to the happen
ings Of the past eighteen months, Mr..
Diosy said that the answer to that
qestion depended on the answer to an
other question, namely, what Chinese?
Everything, he went on, depends on
that. The only people who really count
politically in China are the people who
made the revolution, the new China the
western educated members Of the lit
craft, who really represent the nation
al consciousness of the country. If
this is found a stumbling block with
any one to the idea of China a ma
tion,," I would ask them what develop
ment Of national consciousness is to
be found among the submerged tenth
In any nation, ever in England, and /
would ask them further to remember
that the great struggle of struggles
with tens Of millions of Chinese for
hundreds of years has been the strug-
gle to live, and that the vast majority
of the Chinese people nave been thus
submerged almost from time immemo-
rial. You would never think of saying
that England was not a nation, because
the submerged tenth had no national
consciousness or. concern. You would
never think Of denying that the idea of
England a nation had been gradually
built up by her best men, that is by a
comparatively small minority of the
people as a whole; why then deny the
possibility of extending this simple
fact in political history to China, sim
ply because. by reason Of an economic
pressure of which we in the west have
no conception, her submerged tenth is
six-tenths of her people, if you will
forgive the apparent paradox.
Real Issue Is Patriotism.
The only people that really matter in
China are those who have been educat-
ed in the west or have received west
sern education and imbibed western
methods in Japan. The vast bulk of
the people have no political opinion
one way or the other at present. They
desire only to be allowed to work as
far as possible In peace, and 1t is Of
little concern to them who holds the
rein Of government. This point set
tied, the present phase of the struggle
In China ID seen as a trial of strength
between those who would utilize the
power Of a western education merely
for their own advantage, and those
who have the future OF the country.
really at heart.
Yuan Shih-kai and his followers
must now be written down definitely
ais belonging to- the former party. The
recent quite Unconstitutional conclu-
sion Of the five-poWer loan is the most.
convincing proof OF this. In the first
place s25,O0O,00O is far In excess Of
China's present needs. and In the sec