Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1931-10-22
THE PAINFUL PENALTIES OF ULTRA P.
By GEORGE B. LOCKWOOD

Col Theodore Roosevelt used to say that those who
sonob to render the United States defenseess from pos
sble armed attack were trying to Cmnafy the Onlteo
States. i
China is he world s horrible example OF the e1ecs o
lone tradition of pacifism The philosophy OF Conu
Gins anobt nonresistance His teaching that it was bet
ter to endure than to resist wrong became ngraed lof
centuries in the thought Of the Chinese people,
And so the Chinese have endured They have been
tramped under the heels OF tyfants eXtofueners, eA
ers bandits corruponsts and invaders Death itself be
came to them matter Of small concern; suffering espec
ialv the suffering of others, matter OF indifference
The inventors of npowder their preparations for de
fense became comic When Japan invaded China IN one
of the land grabbing expeditions stronger powers have
been periodically making into China the Chinese army
marched gaily forth to DEATH armed with sunkpots ana
paper dragons intended to rghten the enemy out OIL lts
wits.
Ia this land of nonressance people, even In pro-
norton to the vast population have been robbed and muir
ered through organized and unorganzed violence imam
in any other country of the world In forcing opium on
China at the cannons mouth the British slaughtered
Chinese by the hundreds Of thousands With no sense OF
nationality with patrotism China slept IN Welter OF
corruption and decay until the theory OF nonressance
beoan TO weaken and the Manchuran emperors were ov
erthrown
For twenty years the Chinese have been paying the
penalty of their long acceptance OF the Confuclan ph
osopy They have been trying to set their republic on
the pathway OF progress Iney nave Deeh uylHS W I'LL
fv and animate their country They have been called up
on to resist aggressons by other nations Only the IN
tervention Of the United States saved China from par
tton after the Boxer rebelion only the opposition OF
the United States prevented the seizure by Japan OF
Chinas richest province containing the very tomb Of
Confucius after the World War
China has had to crush conspiracy by Soyelt Russia
to make the republic appendage of the Moscow dlca
torshp, after having been compelled to ask the military
help of the boshevsts to keep the republic on Its feet
China is now facing effort by Japan to further en-
trench herself in Manchuria the Chinese have not Tor
gotten what happend to Korea, swallowed up by Japan
after that nation had been brought within the sphere OF
Japanese influence.
In this world you cam as someone has SAID, dodge
your responsibilities but not the consequences OF dodg
ing your responsibilities. You escape trouble by re-
fusng to stand up for your rights but this means that
in the long you will have rights to stand up for
In the of peace you render yourself helpless,
but this will not prevent militant antagonist from
taking advantage of your weakness Ideaism is beau
tiful and commendabe thing but that idealism which
insists on committing suicide cannot do much permanent
good in the world.
IF aren't real careful there going to be lot of
dolefull sounds emitted in Congress during the coming
winter