Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-27
.REVOLUTIONISTS IN
 CHINA CHARGE YUAN
 WITH EXTRAvAGANCE
Yunnan's Emancipation Pro- clamation Charges that Elm peror Elect Has Run Coun- try Into Enormous Debt.

PEKING, Feb. 23.-(Correspondence of The Associated Press) ).-Leaders of the revolution in Yunnan province that nov insists it is the only legal govern
 ment in China and is the protector of the Republic, are issuing almost daily manifestos decrying Yuan Shi-Kai and
 his advisors.
 The full text of Yunnan's emancipa-
 ton proclamation charges Yuan Shi-
 kai with having contracted foreign
 debts aggregating $2O00OO,OO0 (Mexi-
 can) without letting the public know anything about the expenditures, with
 vicious appointments to high office and
 with the weakening of China's rela-
 tions with foreign nations in such a manner that they are able to interfere
 in Chinese internal affairs. Yuan
 Shi-Kai crimes are described by the
 revolutionists as high treason.r
 After proclaiming these misdeeds
 the revolutionists declare their sup
 port of the republic, urge the limita-
 ton of the power of the central gov
 ernment by constitution in such a
 manner that the provinces may be free
 to develop, and declare for strength
 eling of Chinas foreign intercourse in
 such a way that she shall take stand ing among world powers.
 The manifesto says:
 During the first year of the republic the entire country was so eager for peace and progress that patriots sacri-
 feed everything in order to assist Yuan. Was it because they were so
 attached to him that they had chosen SO to act? Nay, it was because they
 wished-through him-lo save the i'm
 periled country Yet in spite of the |, sacred trust imposed him, he failed to ing the past four years. For the pur
 pose of seizing power and strengthen ing his position, he has increasingly
 played with political parties to his 'soft-handed' manner, crushed the Ma tiOnal Assembly, banished by mean methods those who were opposed to him, prostituted public opinion either by coercion or inducement, and em- ployed and directed ignoble men whom he encouraged with rewards and priv ileges.
 Since the day he was placed in his position of trust, he has contracted up- wards of S2OO,O00,00O in foreign lans and yet not a single item of expendi- ture he dares truly to disclose to the public. On the outbreak of the war in Europe the resource of foreign loans was cut off He then devoted his attention to ingathering all he could within the borders of China Unreas- onable taxes have been levied. people have been forced to subscribe to do- nestle loans. and excessive fiscal bur dens have been imposed on the coun- try. In addition, he has encouraged the eXtortion of the taxgatherers, who are offered high rewards intheir work of impoverishing the people
 Where has the money, thus scrap ed up, gone to? It has been spent for capturing the minds of scholars and officials and guarding against indoor thieves As far as {he real affairs of the State are concerned, nothing ahs been done for. the people We have never neard of Yuan doing any thing to stengthen the national de- fense or making any attempt at pre- raring for the international struggle of finance. What he has actually done is to invite the derision of friendly powers by the exercise of short-sight- ed cunning and vain tricks. No won der that we have been defeated at every turn in matters diplomatic In- formally, he has never paid any res pect to the welfare of the provinces and local centers or sympathized with the suiferings of the people. Robbers have been over-running the country, ! yet he has failed to suppress them. People have been unlawfully harassd. l yet he has failed to deliver them. Edu- ]. cation has been nglected, while the re- storation of old institutions has been advocated. All the mOney-making in 1 dustries have been monOpolized by the !! officials and turned into official enter ! prises. The policy of the Chin dynas- l ty to keep the people in ignorance' i has been followed and the doctrine of !, Eung-yang, who affirmed that the peo- pie should be made to pay all expen- i ses of the sopereign no matter what the conditions be, has been obeyed to the letter. Laws and regulations are as numerous as the hairs on the | back of COW; but an order given in 1. the morning is often changed in the ! evening. If the law maker himself can break the law as oIten as he likes. !