Evening star., 1914-06-07


going there too. l have realized ever since
we started our Revolution that the best and
sincerest friends we have are the American
people But unfortunately you are not mas
tiers of the diplomatic game IN the Far East.
We revolutionists will always remember with
gratitude that the United States was the
first government in the world to recognize
the republican form of government in China.
And there was more in that recognition than
l believe even the American people them
selves realize.
What did you Americans mean by re
public, the kind of government that now
exists in Peking? Certainly not! 1t was dis
tinctly stated in President Wilson's des-
patch and in the speech that your charge
dafaires in Picking, Mr.. E. T. Williams,
made on March 30, 1913, to Yuan Shi-kai,
that the republic recognized by the United
States government must be acceptable to the
Kno Ming Tang, the party of the South
that made the Revolution.
"That was an explicit stipulation, and the
Peking government accepted it; though at
the very moment they were planning our
downfall. President Wilson's government
the hands of Young China, and it was the
only government in the world that went out
of its way to do So But its good offices
were taken advantage of and its good in
tentions completely wrecked by the du-
plicity of the reactionary powers IN Peklng.
Within six months of your recognition of
republic acceptable to us of the South our
party was forcibly dissolved by Peklng, and
myself and all my friends were driven into
exile. And we prefer to be in exile, rather
than accept any favors or lmmunltles from
the legalized anarchy that has for the mo-
ment gained the upper hand in our country.
five nations
at our betrayal and joined in great inter-
national loan to our enemies to make it GER
tain. You played square with us in the
game of recognition, and you refused to be
a party to that loan. You recognized our
Parliament; while other countries turned
us the cold shoulder till we produced die
tator, and they recognized, not the Chinese
republic, but the Huerta of the Chinese re-
public, Yuan Shi-kai. 1t is no wonder, then,
that in the desperate, uphill struggle we
have before us we look to America as to no
other country in the world for intelligent
sympathy and for material assistance in the
fight for freedom that is now no more than
begun
DR.. SUN stopped and searched among his
II papers 3If you need to offer proof
when YOU get home of just how low an ebb
the republican movement has reached in
China he continued, "just note down
few of the men who are now masters of our
government Parliament has been broken
up and dissolved, and its place has been
taken by an advisory body which has been
especially cautioned against getting in the
way of President Yuan. This body is called
the Political Council, and it is the creation
of Lang Shi-yi, the Presidents secretary.
LANG has been lifelong enemy of reform,
and is frankly and widely known in all cir
cles in Peking as one of the boldest and most
unscrupulous grafters in China. The Shang
hal Mercury, one of the most influential
foreign dailies in China, said of him the other
day, Liang Shi-yi is as cunning as fox, and
about as public spirited. If there were any
trace of democracy left in the country, his
career would be in sight of its end
"But in our Mexicanized republic men
like LANG are cock of the walk just now. A
man his exact type is chairman of the Polit
ical Council. You can get some idea of
the contempt into which republicanism
has fallen when you know that this man,
Ii Ching-hs is an ardent pro-Manchu mon
archist, and until the other day was the
active president of the Manchu Restoration
Society of the great city of Tsingtao. The
leader of the council is of even more treach-