Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-27
SUN YAT-SEN
TO LABOR FOR
MODERN CHINA
Secretary of Canton President
Says Nation May Have
Disorder Epoch.

SHANGHAI, Feb. 27.-"President Sun
Yat-Sen and his co-workers who founded
the Chinese Republic have never had q
chance of ruling China as a republican
State and showing what the progressive
section of the nation could do in the
work of modern government" DR.. Eugene
Chen, secretary to the President Of the
Canton government, said in discussin
why the government of the south was
lighting 70 reontrol of all China.
unless this fact is realized and deeply
borne in mind, yOu-the friends Of China
in America-will see nothing but dis
order and futility and incapaclty in
phase of the nations life which. 1 assert.
exceeds in promise and potency the
richest age of European history.
THE Republic, on its cultural side,
marks the beginning of a real renais-
sance in China, which might even
rival-in the sphere of the mind and
morals-the achievement of the great
epoch in Europe covering the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries.
"And as the West could not be what
it is today if the Greek mind had not fed
it, so is there the promise Of a Chinese
assimilation of the same cultural food
through the Republic as an American.
and, ultimately, as a Hellenic thought.
"We were an original mind, with a
civilization and culture of our own. In
the past we gave-we hardly ever re-
ceived. Today-through the Republic
we are receiving for the first time in our
long recorded history. But, his thin,
Intelligent face lighting, we shall pay
back in ample measure"
what about the division in the leader
class in China % l asked.
True, the leader class in China is
today divided" answered Mr.. Chen. And
this division is important One section
of it believes in the Chinese Republic:
(a) as a deliverance of the Chinese peo-
pie from the Manchu conquest and as
q constitutional guarantee against thf
Manchu or other imperial restoration
and OBJ as an instrument which can Sc
cure the modernization of China in terms
of Western political and economic
thought, without injury to the foundation
of the State as the historical product
Of Chinese cultural forces.
This section is meant when reference
is made to the Southern leaders, The
other and rival section of the leader class
includes the elders of the Mandarinate
and the feudal chieftains of the Tuchu-
nate. They are sometimes referred to as
the 'NorthSsn leaders,.
what is the meaning Of North and
South, 2"
1.-The terms North and South" said
Mr.. Ches, 'have a political, not a geo.
graphical, content. Some of the most
sinister leaders of the North are Can
tonese, while some of the Leading figures
Of the South are from a provice like
Chichli, in which Picking itself is situated.
1.-The Technology is explained by the
act that the provinces at or south of
the historic line of the Yangtsze were the
first to declare for the republic and are
regarded generally as being more pro-
gressive, politically, than those north of
the line.
IN terms of political action, the cen
trail difference between these two sec
lions of the governing forces of China is
seen in their respective attitudes toward
the parliamentary system as an instru-
ment of government.
1.-THE South affirms the pOlit. i and
psychological necessity of the Chinese
people as whole cooperating in the
work of undermining China as an effec-
tive tate unit which, at the present stage
of mans political thought and experience
can be done only through the machinery
Of parliamentary government.
ION the other hand, the 'North'-so
ar as its policy can be intellectualized-
appears to deny the capacity and ade-
qUacy oH the parliamentary instrument so
to modelnize China, and therefore relies
on the rule of the strong man"