The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-10
CHINA CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDING
 OF THE REPUBLIC

China will celebrate to-day the an niVersary of the founding of the ssre- public. although Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the other leaders of the great revoIu- ton are now exles, and are under stood to be planning another revoIu- ton against what they call the ty- Hranny Of Yuan Shih-kai The latter, whose coup d'etat drove from the country the men who had rescued it from Manchu rule in 1911, now rules under an amended constitution by which he is virtually the dictator of China, and 1t is alleged that he fa- vors a return to the n1onarchica1 re ginae.
 Occidental investigators differ much in their views as to the future of Chi na. Dr. Goodnow, the American who was for a year the legal advisor to the government, and who recently return ed to America to assume the presi- dencys of Johns Hopkins Universd ay, declares that President Yuan is the best man for holding the repubhc to- gether-'' Dr. George B. Morrison long famous as the Peking correspon- dent of the London Times, is also op- tinaistic as to China's future and ac- cords high praise to the President Rowland R. Gibson, in his recently published book, Forces Mining and Undermining China" is n ot so hope fI1l. He pictures the ancient land as a country divided against itself, rent by revolution, corrupt but not con tented, on theeverge of bankruptcy an example of how China has fared in her dealings with Europe, he points to the Austrian loan, in which the republic assumed a liability of six teen millions at six per cent, receiv- ing only seven millions and being forced to take the balance in Austrian torpedo boats for which she had no use.
 China has q Villa in the person of White Wolf. a bandit who has ravaged four provinces and has made unceas- ing war on the 'tcientificos'' Of Pe- king. White Wolf has often been reported as captured or killed, but he always turns up again, robbing the rich and preaching revolution among. the peasantry- G. L. Harding, who was for some time on the staf of the Cha- na Republican, a revolutionary daily paper published in English, declares that the f.nilitary dictatorship of Yuan is worse than that under the empire He declares that the repub- lfcan press has been suppressed, and the editors and writers forced to seek refuge in Japan. Ten papers were closed in Canton in a single day,'' he says. Tn Hankow five editors were shot, in Pekfng every opposition pa per was wrecked by soldiers. To- day in China every newspaper must l for good behavior and must be di- rectly responsible to the police for news, editorial matter, and even ad- vertisements.' He adds: stAs the free press has gone, so also is being de- ! stroyed the last sembIance of repub- lican government at Picking. Every official of known republican synpa- thies is being removed and his place filled by imperiaIists of the old re- gime.''
 Yuan Shih-kai, although he is de scribeds as Occidental in tendencies and in favor of the introduction of Christianity and the adoption of the European plan'' in marriage. is said by Edwin c. Hawley to be a polyea- mist with fifteen wives and seventy five children. Under Yuan.s reign the worship of heaven and the cere- mony of kotow have been rerestab- Hshed, and the ConfucAus creed has been made the state religion. Dr. Sun Yat-sen and his supporters the fathers of the Chinese republic. were mostly socialists and freethink kers and their program was to transform China into the worlds first social | democratic state Before Dr. S1ln was driven from China, he had al- ready worked out an elaborate plan for the building of railways through out the country and for the establish
 ment of which all the people would share.