The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-05

The lmperialist Moralizes.
They'd see dens and dives, where
the foulest of practices are daily rites,
where small boys are used for i'm
moral purposes, and where pretty
little Sing-song girls are sold into
slavery, where babies are sold by
their mothers. for a few coppers cash.
They'd see China, the China that the
tourist and 1.-The longtime resident
never sees, the China seen by the po-
lice only.
This country is fairly seething,
and whether the fires Of wrath and
unrest are finally quenched or die
out, or whether they are unwilling
Iy allowed by the wrangling foreign
governments tour own being the
most responsible, yet the most vac
Hating out here) to grow, and feed
upon the millions here and upon the
foreigners until another bloody
Boxer arises-upon this present day
state of affairs, upon the attitude
of the powers in enforcing order
even at the point of the bayonet and
at the mouth of the machine gun,
depends really the future Of the
world.
For, let but China arise, let her
once become Bolshevik, and straight
way the course of history will change,
and soon the greatest war since the
beginning of time will be fought out
here. | speak of Asia, and not of the
Chinese as fighers. I fully believe
that the next war will be fought out
here, out here in this maelstrom of
racial hatred, this fiery region where
Jap, and Chino, Russki and Mongol-
ian, all hate each other-and are unit
ed against the foreigner"
Slaughter House Diplomacy.
The worst kind of a policy toward
China would be for a conciliatory pol
icy, in view of the lessons we should
have learned from the Boxer. 1t took
only three days for the Boxer to de-
scend upon the legations in Picking,
four days from the first sign OF unrest
and the legations were fighting for
dear life, and they fought for three
months until the allies rescued them
The looting OF Peking, the raplng
! Of Chinese women, the bloody
slaughter Of men, women and chill
dren when the armies were turned
loose after the relief, has kept
China quiet these yesrs-and now
the younger generation, not remem-
berlns the Boxer reprisaIs, Is rising
again, In fact, has arisen.
UP country the foreigners are flee
ing for their lives. Even as ! write
my friend Of the China press tells me
that at Kuling 600 missionaries are
marooned, helpless, and surrounded by
hostile Chinese looters-and the
Japanese and American destroyers
are speeding madly there in the hope
Of arriving there before It's too late
A toss Of the COMA shake Of the
dice box-and either peace or bloody
war. On one hand we see another
Boxer, with wholesale slaughter sell
dom seen except here in China, with
reprisals in the ratio OF a thousand TO
one; or a pacifcation, a reorganiza
ton.
The government, the sham gov
eminent, the government in name
only, is aeeedlng TO the vile, crazy,
iunatle demands Of the university
students--these foul little wretehes,
educated by foreigners, and now Bit
ing the hands that have fed them
and these little devils, half-edueat-
ed, half fanatic, demand that the for
elaners leave China.
Hank. as an AL member Of thu
Shanghai University Club. to whicl
belongs many returned students o