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and distortion of the true facts or for
the maintenance Of conspiracy Of
silence on the true Issues involved in
the conflict in our province.
Those in the treaty ports who can
see beyond the illusory prosperity
which usually comes to them in every
calamity in China, in the form of high
rentals, higher bank dividends and
more subsidies; those who wish to see
this province take the highway of
prosperity rather than to remain in
the narrow alleys of intrigue will put
the sheets of the hired press aside and
try to ascertain for themselves the
true facts and issues involved in the
PRESENT conflict in this province.
What Are the Issues.
What are the issues and do they
justify the conflict? a~1
Is 1t to replace one militarist by an
other and continue to undermine the
economic, political and moral life of
the province to the satisfaction OF a
set Of derelict generals In the prov
ince, and niger rentals, more bank
dividends and subsidies in the treaty
ports? 5us
Is it to impose upon this country the
principles of Capitalization as against
the principle of federalism, under the
banner of which an opium-soaked war
lord with a harem Of concubines is
marching or rather fleeing from the
woe-begone province of Yunnan to
other soldiery.ridden provinces? Is it
that Eurasian mongrel, an adven-
turer for hire, eurio dealer, an ex-
PEELED member of the Kuomintang
has hurriedly come down to the neigh
boring colony to laid" few militar-
lists against the Kwangtung govern.
ment by putting into their shivering
hands the scarecrow of Communism
and trotting them out as the champ
ions of liberty and prosperity of the
province of Kwangtung? Is it that the
Kwangtung government is going to re-
place the almost nonresident capital
list system in this province by Com
munism?
These are not the issues upon
which the present conflict is going to
be settled. There is but one issue,
one clear cut issue. It lies in the con-
tradiction which for years has marked
the principles of Kuomintang and
the means for their realization. The
principles are good, the means were
bad 1t is the contradiction between
good and evil.
Principles Of the Kuo Min Tang.
What are the principles? Anybody
not blinded by prejudice, intolerance,
imperialist snobbery and muck-rak-
ing press will understand them? Ma
tIonaIism, democracy and the eco
nomic welfare Of the people. These
are the principles. And if in China,
as in any other colonial or semi,
colonial country, these principles are
antiimperialistic in their nature, 1t is
not the fault Of the principles: it is
the fault of Imperialism.
What have been the means at the
disposal Of the Kuomintang govern
ment for the realization of these prin-
ciples? An unruly, tyrannical, selfish,
unpatriotic soldiery. When legislat-
i've, judicial and executive authority
are usurped by armed bandits in uni
form there is no hope for the princi-
pies of Kuomintang, no hope for the
province and for the country.
For years the soldiery was robbing
and terrorizing the people, undermine
ing the prestige Of the government,
at the head of which stood the great
leader, longing to do something in
accordance with his principles. The
generals listened or pretended to lis
ten to their patriotism, their past rev.
dictionary records, and even to that
feeling of compassion which Sun Vat
Sen believed no man to be devoid Of,
but all to no avail. They did what
they pleased. The many conferences
held with the generals turnout these
years were futile. The finances re-
manned ununified; unjust taxation con-
tinued to be exacted from the people,
gambling was rampant, prostitution
was encouraged for revenue. The
generals DEPOSITS in the foreign
banks in the safe Ravens of retreat
were swelling, while the common
people In the province were getting
poorer and poorer, swelling the ranks
of banditry. ~..
The Beast Of Militarlsm.
The contradictions between the
principles of the party and the reali-
ties in which it lived and worked be.
came apparent to everybody. II al