The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-04-14
CHINA IN BAD
FINANCIAL
CONDITION
According to Opinion of For
ereiuners and0utSide Finan-
ciaI Control Predicted.

! control or foreign public DEBT COM
I mission. The difficulty of the situa-
ton is that the president and his sup
/ porters are, up to the present, unable
/ to obtain money from the provinces
/ for the Administrative requirements OF
/ the central government. A letter 10
the president from the Tutuh (miii-
! tary governor) of Human, accompany
\ ing a remittance of 100000, contains
! an interesting statement of the case
from a practical Chinese point OF view
Tang Hsing-ming, the Tututh, says:
/ oOf late the country has been IN
/ turmoil OF civil strife and frontier
troubles, and scarcely a day mas
! uassed without some military opera
\ tions. After your excellency SUPPRESS
ed the internal troubles and maze
peaceful settlements with the powers
the first thing that attracted your at
/ tention was the financial administra-
\ tion. Foreign loans have been re-
sorted to to relieve the country's n
nancial embarrassment, but owing 70
the fact that the terms of the foreign
syndfcates were too harsh, some pa
/ triotic people have suggested ways OF
COLLECTING taxes while others proposed
a retrenchment policy But all these
specious words and theories can 90
no real good to the country
NO Reme0y IN SlSuts
During this critical period tnere
seems to be hardly any remedy lor me
country's financial troubles. When
read the documents from the central
government stating it's financial dill
entities and the orders of your excel
ency 1 gave vent to my GRIEF IN soDs
! and tears. like everyone else VINO mas
the sense of patriotism
eve are in duty bound to relieve the
| embarrassment of the government II
the provinces do not help, natonai
bankruptcy will result and the nation
will lose its independence Ana II inc
4 nation is obliterated, how couio tne
proyince of Human exist alone! mere
by remit the sum of $4OO,ooo tMe&lcan'
to the government.
at should be borne in mind thaI
the financial condition of Human IS
\ unite different from that OF other prov
inces 1t would be easy for otner
PROVINCES to raise double the amount.
\ 0nr remittance, though not large IS
suficient to display our PATRIOTISM ana
\ anxiety over the situation. ).
5cenan TANG HSING-MING.'
STh's, Oft az II might be called, from
the province of Human, small as II y,
=, oYcantional AS a rule little or
nothing can be gotten from the provln-
cee. thew are, on the contrary, con-
tin,,olIy calling upon the central gov
n eminent for assistance, the Iutuas
~ reatening that rebellion, or brigand-
GOO and footing that will impllcate
4 the government with foreigners, VIII
result unless the assistance Is lot
coming. 49,
The president and his suppoII ei -
nv employing the army, succeeded IN
W arassinr the rebellion of last sum-
1mer. hut they have not been able 70
starnn ont the elements of disorder.
Indeed in order to do this they would
have to abolish the army itself,-a
mercenary situation, as the IronClel
! se,b+inpr and the recent rebellions nave
| shown. lacking discipline and not ye'
/ deevloped above the idea that the PRIV
! ilege of soldiers is the right 20 piunu-
or. Yet the president has not Ins
/ power to disband several huhui GU
/ thousand men in arms A..
~ REORGANIZATION Throughout the
4 country prevents the government from
ooiIactinp taxes on western lines
f,oro the provinces as a whole, while
active opposition-whiCh viii last, II
a. cold as long as Yuan Shi-kai re-
mains president-would otherwise
Trasent in the southern provinces, the
institution of a new western system,
| Bu+ the greatest difficulty is neileVeu
/ ~ Poraieners here in Picking to be
the lack throughout the natlon o.
| oanahIe men, possessing the CHAR
4 octar and intelligence necessary TO
/ buiId up a modern system out OF the
| corr1Int and Anticipated eastern one
which the country knows.
ynan Shi-kai's government has fal-
lon hack on the old Manchu system
Of giving the governor (formerly me
vtceroyl orders to send to the caplLal
certain definite amounts, leaving the
governor to collect as he can sumo
ient above the required sum to pay
- ,,.oyInce's expenses, including the
cost OF his provincial army, ana Wnal
Inns he chooses to take as his own
narsonal compensation. But even TINS
Man hitherto has failed, for the cen
traI government has not been aole "
,.ocoyer the prestige and power which
the Ndanchus held, feeble as they WIRE.
Tho Associated Press correspondence
from Peking has shown how the SO
called modern army refused 70 nShl
the Mongo1 tribesmen wltnH L
nrovince of the capial, Chill, ltselt'
and how when disbanded, the troops
ioin hrigand bands, one OF which, IN
the province Immediately south OF
chill numbers, it is calculated, over
5000 men.
Except where foreigners are given
contI al or a measure of it-as IN tne
case OF the extensive salt tax the
salt Gabelle,-the government Is aDIe
to collect little in the way OF revenues.
yuan Shi-kai might employ more for-
/ eieners and put them in authority, but
the men Immediately round him, as
well as he himself, have given con-
/ tinued proofs of their unwfllingness
to give authority to foreigners.