The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-29

Sun was thinking and speaking in
terms of a revolution that would
change the status of the Chinese pea
SAINT. In his early twenties, he wrote
to Ii Hung-chang, petitioning for So
cial and economic reforms. In 1911,
he wrote an article on the agrarian
question in China, printed in Geneva,
in "The Socialist" in which he said
that the basis Of social and economic
transformation in China is an
agrarian revolution. All his life, this
was one of the big goals he had in
mind. Everything he planned he saw
as means to the betterment Of the
life of the Chinese masses.
"In 1915, when we were in Japan,
he urged Lao Chung kai to study
more deeply into the peasant and la
Dor problems.
at is only in the past few years,
after four decades of struggle, that
these plans for a revolution of the
people have begun to bear fruit.
remember clearly the first All
Kwangtung Peasants Conference in
Canton, in July, 1924. Then for the
first time, we saw the people of
China, who must be her new strength,
coming to participate in the revolu-
ton. From all the districts of
Kwangtung, the peasants came, many
of them walking miles and miles,
barefooted, to Canton. They were
ragged, tattered. Some carried bas-
kets and poles. I was deeply moved.
SUMS Purpose Was Clear.
CDR Sun was moved also. When
we reached home, he said to me, This
is the beginning Of the success of the
revolution and he told me again the
part the oppressed people Of China
must play in their own salvation.
"All these years, his purpose was
clear. But today we talk of recent
foreign influence. Was Sun Yat-sen
the leader who was voicing the
agrarian revolution for China when
Russia was still under the heel of the
czar-was he the tool of foreign
scheming?
"Dr. Suns policies are clear. If
leaders of the party do not carry
them out consistently then they are
no longer Dr. Suns true followers,
and the party is no longer a revolu-
tionary party, but merely tool in
the hands of this or that militarist.
1t will have ceased to be a living
force working for the future welfare
of the Chinese people, and will have
become machine, the agent of OPP
preston, a parasite fattening on the
present enslaving system.
Face Serious Crisis.
eve face a serious crisis. But il
is more Of crisis for US as individ.
uals than for China as a country
Whether the present Kuomintang al
this moment rises to the height of it;
ideals and eourageously finds a revo
lutionary corrective for it's mistakes
or whether it slumps into the shame
fulness of reaction and compromise
the three. principles of DR.. Sun Vat
sen will conquer in the end. Revolu
ton in China is inevitable
"At the moment, feel that we are
turning aside from the Tsungli's poll
ey of leading and strengthening the
people. Therefore l must withdraw
until wiser policies prevail.
''There is no despair in my heart
for the revolution. My dishearten-
ment is only for the path into which
some of these who had been leading
the revolution have strayed.
VIII Not Keep Faith Alone.
"But, altho there are members of
the party who are straying from the
path DR.. Sun charted for the revolu-
ton Of China, millions of people in
China who have already come under
the banners of the party will con-
tinue on this path to the final goal.
This means that l shall not keep faith
alone. I am certain that all true
members of the Kuomintang will
take this revolutionary path.-Sun
Soong Ching ling"