The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-17
WANTS PEOPLE
 OF CHINA TO
 GET TOGETHER

the students Of Chlna deciaflhg thaI Pekin officialdom does not represent the people of China with Dr. Sun Vat Vat Sen leading the forces of Canton against the armies of Pekin, and the bankrupt government unable to meet it's loans, Hsu Shih- Chang, President, has issued an appeal to the people of China to take control of the govern ment through parliament and by an expression of public opinion.
 The appeal has been sent out in lengthy circular telegram addressed to the military and civil authorities of the various provinces.
 "Ten years have elapsed since the establishment of the Chinese Repub- lie, and more than three years since my election to the Presidency" says President Hsu "The events which took place during this period are all of such difficult and complicated nature that it is painful for one to re- count them.
 with age and feebleness falling upon me, what other motive did really have by shouldering the serious and difficult tasks of state at time of turmoil and disorder than my mere illusion that might do something for the people and country that has i'm peled me to do my duty without hesitation? It is, however, contrary to my wish and hope that the years have gone by while I am still unable to achieve my object, and the condl- tion of the country is growing more and more chaotic and precarious.
 sUFFERlNGS ARE GREAT
 Tn the past ten years the losses to the country and the sufferings of the people have been exceedingly great and innumerable. For instance, the repeated fightings which have taken place during recent years have cer- tainly caused tremendous military ex- penses: the excessive borrowing of foreign loans has proved highly detrlG mental to the nations finance and economy: and the stagnation of com merce and industry and the neglect of education of the country's youths have simply deprived the country or it's industrial and educational devel- opment and fruitful results.
 During recent years the five south eastern provinces have severed rela- lions with the Central Government, and observers of China are always in the habit of pointing out the disunlon of the country whereas actual facts, in my opinion, indicate just the other wise. It is to be observed that com munications between the north and the south have not received any hin drance or molestation; the people have travelled to and fro freely; merchan- disc has been transported hither and thither without ban or embargo, and the systems of law and education have continued to exist side by side with out any difference or change. From these facts it is self-evident that the disunion of the country now existing is not the common wish and desire of the people. Since it is not the idea of the people, is it not a painful thing that they are compelled to tolerate 1t under a state of war?
 DlssENsIoN OVER QUESTIONS
 Was not the secession of the five southwestern provinces caused, at the beginning, by the question of the parliament? The serious dissenslon over this question caused consider able gulf in the opinions of the coun- try. Therefore, in October of last year issued an order restoring into force the law governing the election of members of Parliament and the law governing the organization of the Par lament, both promulgated in the first year of the republic, and under their provisions another Parliament was to be convoked, in the hope that the diff ference of opinion thus caused might be removed and the country be re- united.
 Such a step was then considered in some quarters as most extraordi- nary; but, being desirous of imme-