Evening star., 1927-10-16

~ contemplated a large loan az
big deal of great importance
TO you and to your stockholders.
Suppose the person of most conse'
quence to you i'm this transaction
was president of one of the six pow.
erful Chinese banks in Shanghai. and
YOU believed the best way of ap'
preaching him was through lunch
con conference.
And finally. supposing you were a
member OF the magnificent Shanghai
Club. the leading institution of its
kind in that financial metropolis.
would ii occur TO you to invite the
president of the Chinese bank to
lunch with you there? If it did, he
cause of your training as an Ameri-
can business man. you could do moth
ing about IT, For in Shanghai the
president of the great Bank of China
Cannot cross the threshold of the
principal business mems club, even
aI luncheon guest of one of its
embers.
Suppose. again. that you had come
from China as the son or daughter
of wealthy parents seeking an educa-
ton at an American college. You
made a social success. were elected to
one of the best fraternities or sorori-
American methods or spending your
leisure time, became fond of tennis
or golf or swimming, and liked the
atmosphere of the American clubs to
which you had been admitted.
Different i'm Native Land.
What would be your feeling upon
going back to your native land to
live in one of the great treaty ports
when you saw foreigners. not so high
ly educated as you. nor members OF
such good fraternities or clubs in the
States or in England. enjoying all the
facilities of some of the finest coun-
try clubs in the world and considering
you to be a social uutcaSt, unable to
enter the gate even as a guest?
Would you take it calmly and phil
osophically. or would you lend your
money and your influence and your
time to demanding a revision of the
unequal treaties?
The average Chinese has no clear
conception of what is meant by a
treaty. His notion is that it is some.
thing which gives a foreigner the
right to treat him as a social pariah.
All over China one hears about the
iniquity of the unequal treaties" In
the extreme northern and eastern
provinces, under the control of the
great Manchurian generalissimo,
Chang Tso Lin, one sees np posters
or placards of an anti-foreign nature,
but all through central and southern
China there are thousands and tens
OF thousands of posters, placards, bill
boards and wall paintings calling for
the abolition of the unequal trea-
off
ing the economic ills of the Dopulace
TO unfair treatment by the foreigners.
Unemployment Due to Machines.
AS a matter OF fact, unemploy-
ment in China is due largely to
the introduction of labor-saving ma
chinery, automobiles, trains and
steamboats,, which have upset the
economic balance Of centuries and
thrown out OF work thousands of la
borers and carrier coolies. There has
been an increasing amount of unem-
ployment, hunger, suffering and
starvation. Add to this the fact
that 95 per cent of the population
are illiterate, ignorant and super.
stitious, and one can readily see how
fertile soil awaited Russian-trained
demagogues and agitators.
deeply resentful of social inequality
and the stupid treatment accorded
them in treaty ports by the British
and other foreigners; colored by eco
nomic suffering due to the introduc
ton of Western machinery and fac
tory methods, egged on by Russian
advisers and spread broadcast by the
extraordinarily successful use of mod
ern advertising methods, anti-foreign
ism is a moving force in large parts
Of China today.
The chief school for turning out
political agitators for the Nationalist
cause has for some years been 10
Gated at Whampoa, near Canton. Il
is sometimes spoken of as the
Whampoa Military Academy. The
characters above its entrance, literal
~ translated. mean 1.-The Contra
Military and Political Academy" II
represents the spirit of the Ma
tionalist party. and its aim has beer
identical with the Kuo Min Tang
committee or oligarchy which chooses
the officers of Nationalist China.
Strongly Anti-FOreign.
Visitors to this military politica
academy, Of which Chang Kai-Shel
was the principal for some years
reported only a few months ago thai
it was intensely antiforeign and anti
Christian. 1t is said that this in
stitution sends out 10000 "traine(
officers" every six or eight months.
The essence of their training IL
hatred and destruction. They arr
taught that American capitalists sci
their goods in China at the point o
sox,
materials at starvation prices. leaving
nothing for the Chinese to eat, or any
thing for them to do but to becom'
bandits or soldiers. A large oil paint
ing hung near the main entrance o
the school depicts new China in tn
persons of farmer, a laborer, a sol
der. a merchant and a student tram
pIing on the Bible and the cross.
Is it any wonder that the troop
under officers thus instructed continu
TO destroy mission property, loo
schools and desecrate churches? Mem
bers of the American church mission
have been elected by Nationalist so
diers and the Kuo Min Tang. Bible
and hymn books in the churches hav
been burned and crosses and vase
stolen. At Nanking the Nationals
soldiers acted on premeditated an
pre.concerted plan to attack foreign
ers, committed unspeakable outrage
and were guilty of wanton and delibel
ate looting, burning, murder and a
tacks on women.
This was the deliberate act of of
rial troops acting under orders.
was also the inevitable result of wild
spread anti-foreign propaganda an
vas similar to attacks made by tn
Nationalist troops in Eoochow. XII
kiang, Chinkiang, Wuhu. Ank.ng an
other places. There is no denying tha
violent anti-foreign agitations have o.
Cured repeatedly, and appear to I
more widespread than ever befor
Notwithstanding many plausible 2
surances of good will toward forelgl
ers and promises of protection by II
Nationalist government throughout j
jurisdiction. the actual condition
which saw do not bear out these a
, LuranceS.