The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-15

speaks not to conceal, but to speak
out what he thinks"
Now, believes the writer, the repre-
sentatives Of foreign powers should,
for their own sake, carefully think
over what Karakhan laid down be-
fore them. Only thirteen years ago,
the Chinese scholar Ku Hun-ming, a
conservative writer, wrote in his work
on the history Of the Oxford move
ment in China, published in Shanghai.
that in period Of expansion and
revolution which Europe and China
are now going thru, when two cul-
tunes are clashing; at a time when
the social structure OF a people is in
danger OF being smashed like earthen-
ware pots in an earthquake-at such
a time ven are suddenly faced by new
facts; these facts, wrote the Chinese
scholar, one must be able to correctly
explain; otherwise, not unlike the
Egyptian sphinx, they will wreck
those who fail TO understand, ruin
ing their social order and culture.
European and American capitalism
is streaming to China where II seeks
cheap labor and abundant resources
OF raw materials. Radek further sets
forth 1t destroys the old Chinese
culture, which grew out Of the end
less toll of the petty owner, a culture
to which were alien deep social con-
ficts; for China since long knew no
big landowners, knew not the capital
istic inequality Of our days, and so
the Chinese masses Lived q quiet and
peaceful life. ~ XIV
Changes Wrought BY Imperialism
1t is this peace and quiet that I'm.
perialism has now ruined. Imperial.
ism created big capitalists centers.
where the Chinese workmen. whose
standard Of life IL worse than that OF
any other human being in the world.
sees with his own eyes tremendous
accumulation OF riches. Capitalistic
goods are running the product Of the
artisans labor and capitalistic bond
age has penetrated into the very
depths of the Chinese countryside.
The Chinese villages are today throw
ing out millions of unemployed in
search of daily earnings. And the
Chinese youth seeking learning In Eu-
rope and America got It and, strong
with western science, they ask them
selves: why cannot China stand
on her own feet, why can she not free
herself from foreign capitaIists?"
It was under the rush of these new
things that the Manchu dynasty fell
after three hundred years OF rule
that same dynasty which European
capital saved in the TAPPING rebellion
and supported to the last, anxious as
that capital was to have this screen
so necessary for its domination in
China.
Even then we should have known
the answer to the questions put to
Europe by the Chinese revolution Of
1911 Instead, the imperialists stub
bornly believed they could cope with
the Chinese revolution. And, in fact,
they did cope with it as long as it
embraced the intellectual tops"
alone. Thus, by granting a loan to
Yuan Shih-kai, they succeeded in at
taching a milestone to the neck Of
this revolution.
However, ten years elapsed; the re-
yolution was growing in scope-in
breadth and depth, and still the for
eign capitalists refused to believe it.
Scores of books. written by sympa-
thizing authors, warned about the
awakening of the Chinese people, and
yet the lords Of the international ex-
change still hoped that, by playing OF
one military governor against another,
they could. quench the world conflag-
ration of the Chinese revolution.