Evening star., 1926-11-04
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

Wanted: A strong man to take-and
maintain--rulership over a quarter OF
the human race, inhabiting territory
a million square miles greater than
all the United States-as great as the
United States, Alaska, Mexico and
Central America. The vacancy to be
filled has existed since last April 10,
and the 100000 people without a
government are running to and fro
like sheep without a shepherd, while
wolverine bandits are slaughtering,
robbing and starving them, and two
or more boss bandits, with great but
unpaid armies, are creating wholesale
havoc and destruction.
Candidates for this vacancy must
be warned that the slightest mistake
in subduing and ruling the illiterate,
uncivilized aggregation of humanity
has but one end-executton by the
stronger force which asks no Ques.
tions not answered Immediately by
the headsman's ak.
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This vacancy has existed within the
knowledge Of the Geneva society
which arrogates to itself the right to
end wars; it is known by the civilized
nations holding, by treaty, extrater-
ritorial rights by which their own re-
spective citizens residing in the
Country of Decentralization" are sub
ject only to the laws of their own
countries, and not to any so-calied
laws of the Country Of Demoraliza'
tion."
Neither the League nor the individ.
ual nations have stopped, can stop or
attempt to stop the Country of De-
moralization" from it's hell-bent chaos.
On the contrary, the Civilized ma
tions-spelled with q capital C-per'
sist in choking the 400, ,000, 600 govern
less people by limiting their power to
adjust and maintain their tariffs for
revenue only" until they achieve a
strong central government, while they
recognize that the strength OF life In
government or in individuals depends
upon observation-disclosures, either In
money or food.
Silas H. Strawn, delegate Of the
United States to the conference
on Chinese customs tariff and chair.
man Of the International Commission
on Chinese customs tariff and cah1r'
China. says:
"He who could prescribe a panacea
for the cure Of the ills Of China would
be the greatest pathologist the world
has seen. One of the great world
questions today Is, What can the
other nations do to stop the contin'
uous civil war in China, so that the
frugal, Industrious and patient Chi.
nese people may enjoy the fruits OF
their labor, meager though they be,
| in peace. rather than be continuously
| IMPOVERISHED and enslaved by bandits
and soldiers?
"Obviously our trade, as well as
that of the other nations, with China
cannot be increased, or even main
tanned, on its present basis unless
there is peace"
If no wisdom can prescribe a pan
acea" for the devastating woes or one
quarter Of the human race, what OF
Wanted civilization? The Oldest or
ganized society in all history has be-
come hopelessly disorganized. The
people who submitted for centuries tc
the domination Of the Manchus-for.
eign conquerors-sudden FOUND
means to throw off that enslavement
and to form that most difficult OF all
organizations, a republic. and 1t fails
The people cannot talk to one an
other, for tribes have varying dia.
leCtS, only three o0C VI CoSA ~
can read or write their own dialects
and practically none can read or write
the dialects of the scores Of other
tribes, yet they imagined themselves
capable Of developing statesmanshiI
broad enough and wise enough, with
out training, to solve the intricate
problems of governing a quarter ol
| the world. They learned nothing from
the Tower of Babel, and so their broad
land is punctuated with uncounted
Towers Of Babel.
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In their unsophistication Of the
shrewdnesS of ''civilization," they
have been encroached upon by the
powers, which have seized territory
and usurped, through treaties. domin
ion under the title Of "extrateTritori