The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-27
The Blood Bath Is Being Prepared

and peasants who lay down their tools
and scythes to take up arms for the
wiping out of exploitation.
Quite naturally the more moderate
elements in the Kuo Min Tang at.
tempt to split the movement and to
isolate the more determined elements.
But their attempts are bound to fail
for the simple reason that the two
and half million organized workers
and peasants, whose numbers are
growing by the thousands daily, are
strong enough to maintain the or
ganization and to determine its pol
icies. Leaders who cannot adjust
themselves to this new situation are
sloughed off. Since this article was
written General Chang Kai-S b Elk
split with the Nationalist movement
and is now for the imperialists.
That this sort of thing has been
taking place within the Kuo Min
Tang is inevitable and necessary. But
it gives small hope to the imperialists
who pray for its destruction. The
splitters merely find themselves
stripped of their power to interfere
with the sweep towards victory.
That Soviet Orientation.
More than forty years OF intense
revolutionary experience shaped the
life of DR.. Sun Yat-sen. From 1895
to 1910 he took leading part in
ten unsuccessful attempts to over
throw the Manchu dynasty aGd TO set
up a government patterned after the
western democracies. Finally in 1911
the Manchus were overthrow and
on January list, 1912, Dir. Sun was
elected Provisional President OF tine
Chinese Republic.
Here was the most numerous peo-
pie in the world brought into the
family of democratic nations. And
the treatment accorded New China
by the western democracies was, in
the words of the late President VIII
son, the "acid test" applied to their
sincerity. And the "acid test" has
proved the baseness of the demo
cratic metal"
Democratic" pretensions masked
the most inhuman examples of
brigandage. England, France, Japan,
the United States, and the other i'm
perialistic powers, with democratic"
flags flying over their pirate ships
have engaged in expeditions in China
besides which the exploits of the
buccaneers Kidd and Morgan appear
as Sunday School picnics. Unequal
treaties, extra-territoriality forced
concessions; Hongkong, Shanghai,
Tien Tsin, Annoy, Marking, Hankow,
ETC., "internationalized," that is, made
the property of the imperialistic in
vaders; alien governments set up
within the borders of China-these
are merely some of the indignities
heaped upon defenseless China by
her sister "democracies."
British diplomacy failed to see that
with the revolution it would have to
change its methods or invite for itself
swift kick in its ample posterior.
1t is notorious that Britain refused
the assistance so necessary for the
solution of Young China's problems.
And it is further notorious that the
British attitude dictated the policy
of the United States.
The Russian Revolution introduced
a new factor. Revolutionary Russia
abolished the unequal treaties. Revo-
lutionary Russia treated the Chinese
as equals. All the concessions forced
from China by the old Russia were
returned. The "acid test" proved the
metal of the New Russia to be pure
and unalloyed. And basing his con-
illusions on these perfectly obvious
facts DR.. Sun, just before he died.
wrote to the Central Executive com
mittee of the Soviet Union on March !
IL, 1925 {
.. BY the will of fate must
leave my work unfinished, auhd
hand it over to those who, remain
ing faithful to the principles and
teachings of the Party (Kuo Min
Tang will thereby be my true fol.
lowers. !. +.
Taking leave of you, dear COM
rades, want to express the hope
that the day will soon come when
the U. S. S. r. will welcome
friend and ally in a mighty free
China and that in the struggle for
the liberation Of the oppressed
peoples of the world both these
allies will go forward to victory
hand in hand"
Prom the Chinese Cu;da T., Au-..>