Evening star., 1927-10-09
CHINA NEEDS SANE, LIBERAL
MOVEMENT, SENATOR SAYS
Declares U. S. Should Help Orientals in
Every Way to Emerge From Present
Low Standards of Living.

/ Great Britain's Oriental possessions?
| What about the opium trade?
One Brltisher said to me: You can't
give the Philippines their independ.
Cnce. If you do Great Britain or
japan will take them. We can't af-
ford TO see the Philippines have thefS
independence because of the effect it
would have upon India.
The United States has no India. We
are not as dependent upon the Orient
as England is, but it is coming. Now
is the time to prepare, not by treat
in- these people rough and telling
them nothing, but by treating them
kindly and telling them everything.
Chang TsoLn, the Northern dicta-
tor, believes the only way to help
China is by helping him. He would
have you believe he seeks to save all
the world from the bolshevik. He
resembles type-the old-time West
ern frontier gambler-slick, suave.
cunning. Insincere.
When | told him the sensible peo.
ple of the United States were not wor-
ryiNg much about the bolShevikS be-
cause our farmers had good crop of
wheat and our workers had automo-
biles he didn't seem to like it par
ticularlv.
The Southern general, Chang kai-
Shek, was more honest. though he
did not seem big enough for his
stupendous task.
DR.. WI. Nationalist foreign min
lister. is extremely friendly to our
people. and wants our aid. He is one
of the most sensible and conscientious
Chinese I met. He is not anti-foreign.
He is not red.
Lineup of Factions.
Every Southern general may sell
out. the Southern army may be forced
back. but the struggle between the
North and the South, between the old.
autocratic. conservative regime and
the new democratic movement. will go
on: and | hazard the guess that the
liberal forces will win.
The issue is militarism, graft and
special privilege against national SOW
ereignty and democracy. On one side
are the war lords; on the other side
are students, teachers. the merchants
often intimidated into silence-and
the Christian population in an over
whelming majority.
The slogan of the Northern armies
is Destroy the reds" and the watch
word of the Southern forces is For
the cause of the People" The Ma
tionalist movement has been discred-
tied in the minds of many by eXcesses
and crimes. But the whole movement
cannot be damned by calling it
red"
Those deluded souls asking us to
join Great Britain and Japan in armed
Intervention entirely overlook the fact
that even though we conceded these
nations would exercise benevolent die.
tatorship over China, this would prob
ably lead to a conflict between or
among the nations themselves.
Our interests in China and our ideals
are so far different from those of the
countries named that such a combina-
ton must prove disastrous 10 us, if
not to all concerned.
If we fail to help in every way
sane and liberal Chinese movement.
and sit idly by, we shall see China
pass absolutely under the domination
of Russia. You can't stamp out the
seed of bolshevism by shouting Red"
nor can you stamp it out with armies.
You can eradicate it only by making
conditions so much better that the
vast majority of the articulate peo-
pie won't want It.
Causes of Radicalism.
1t isn't the preaching of Carl Marx. |
or Lenine or Debs that makes radicals |
its the short -sightedness and ig-
norance of those who call themselves
smart among the ruling classes that |
permit conditions to become so de- |
plorable that in desperation a slumber-
ing mass of people wake up tenn
porarily, act like wild men, and take
the government into their own desper
ate hands.
Take your choice-help a Chinese
moderate government, or accept
bolShevist china.
tCopyright, 1927