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

going Bolshevik altho men of expo
rience here have said for years that
China would never go Bolshevik. She
may not accept the dogmas of the
Soviet, but she may easily accept their
anti-foreign prattle, and that only as
means to an end. The Chinese always
were, and perhaps always will be,
anti-foreign, hating change, inert.
Tientsin alone of all our offices here
in China, remains active, not partici-
pating in any of the trouble-simply
because Tientsin is the headquarters
of large bodies of American, Japanese,
British. and French and Italian troops,
kept there as a result OF the Boxer
lesson.
All Oriental.
Since the revolution of 1911 China
has known no stable strong govern
ment, always in the throes of some
inter-provincial war, always in the
grip of grasping officials-and the
Chinese have never been a patriotic
people, nor will they be. Conditions
are against patriotism such as we
know it; one hundred or more distinct
tongues, a million prejudices of one
provincial people against the other.
Yet, they are all oriental, have the
intertia and oriental mind and view
point, and consequently may act in
unison against the hated foreign devil
even as they did in 1900
The IncomprehensibIe Native.
Their demands on the Shanghai
consular body are funny, preposter-
Gus, the products Of cruelty distorted
minds, the product of weak, incapable
intellects. Last winter tens of
thousands of Chinese refugees sought
shelter within the international settle
ment from the shells and bayonets
of their own soldiers; now these self
same refugees are demanding that the
foreigner who was willing to lay down
his life last winter to protect him
should give up his settlement, let It
be run by Chinese and that he should
thereupon become subject to Chinese
law-which is the worst mess Christ
ever allowed.
!, for one, and every other for.
eigner here, lose my temper every
time ! think of the utterly absurd
demands made by the government,
BY the students, by the popuIace.
They remind me of bunch Of boys,
of children. And with such thoughts
in my mind, ! set 70 work upon the
slightest provocation, to bust Chin
csc skulls.
Out here, where the foreign popul
alton is infinitesimal in comparison
one must act quickly and with force
or perish. Swoop down, spare no one
or perish by the most excruciating of
torture. I've seen the Chinese Hundred
Cuts. I've seen prisoners slowly cut
to pieces-and I, for one, intend to kill
my share If it comes to a showdown.
| sincerely hope it doesn't. Shanghai
is perfectly safe. at least we can de.
fend it until relief arrives.
japan is only days sail from
here, and help may easily originate
there with the Japs who are only
too glad to come here. Then, try
to get them out, try try.
Driven to pIoodshed by PasslvityI
When next | write, old pal, much
may have happened, much may have
come TO pass; perhaps history may be
written in the next few days. Yet.
on the other hand, this may drag
along for weeks, for months, the pas
sive resistance of the Chinese at
which they are adopts; and which
resistance soon drives the foreigner
mad and into bloodshed, as has hap
pened out here many time. Write
me soon, damn 1t. haven't gotten
a letter from you for ages, and I'm
wondering what / could have done TO
you to cause your silence.
Please forget not that am
Your best friend and TsaI Chen.