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Show CHINESE GUT IT SDOI BHWflKEID Leading Men Realize Piti ful Figure Presented by t Vast Empire MEET FACTS TRANKLY Lecture Campaign Planned to Arouse People to Sense Situation Sp a cab to Tl e Tr bune h WOHA Auv 8 The perfect t nens a d f u k ess wl h wh ch Ch ne esde u e ok ze the p t ful f gure o as uun ry has u on the wo d ag a a a th most pathet c par of e s ua n C e annot hep but d eh b nk ng way the fac e are i me T e e a any bra e eftor s be ng n a He e s eep ng g ant too 1 h o d d ffe ence s s 1 w do s a re and e o a cha-i ge s o he o A Pek nan erne for asking up e co ias , augurs ed n the Ch nes neru Le u era associa on This p es send ou t a el ng part es of s ake a Uu a e e people of C na ua g e p es dent of he e pub pe a follow ng se ere st c tu es on o n rymnn n a preface to the regu atlone of t e new so e y Ou coun says he vice pros dent has up to Uie p esc lived In sub me Ig o ranee. The pe p e ha e assumed a ee f sa lifted att ude he classes in tier ca m sec us on and the maases taken up w th t elr rude pleasures have : been in total Ignorance of what a nation means Deplores Republic The vice president goes on to say In the face of defeats by Japan on the east humiliation a the hands of France ln he south and the shame inn c ed b m gtoty Russ a, the cred ulous peop e fooliah y went in for ea era c ration adopting customs e gne s for hundreds of years but veril) paring the foo o fit tne shoe w th the result that there ha a been evo ved a la ess equality and an un brld ed liberty Blind y they rave and rent ha ing no sett ed convictions If you v sh to f nd a man a th s ncere pat lotlsm fear ess publ c eplr t mill tary efficiency or the edu a onal at tain men s of a foreigner ou nil ha e d fficulty In discovering one n a thousand The re a onshlp of father and son husband and w fe brother and friend and he virtues of love honest p o p le y and modesty aTe now regarded as of 1 t e consequence The endency today is for the peo pie o descend to the le el of brutes and to regard degeneration w th com p acenc T e po son was rampant ln the os ng days of he Ching dy nasty but since the establ shment of the republ c It has been dec ded y on the increase Republicanism Inadequate The ce pres dent fol ows up th s se vere nd ctment by declaring the ut er fa lu e of republ canlsm to cu e the coun try of the evi s from which It suffered be fo e the Manchu downfa Cease ess n ternal d Borders and fore gn compl cat ons have marked trie thrtje ears of the re pub o and he adds Those who are concerned about the approach ng d sso u ion of the nat on w hout except on ascribe the present sta e of affa rs to t e non exterm na ton of band a a foating refugee popu at on a tang e o na onal f nance and the fa ure of all offic al p ans for ame oration The wr er however dec aresh s faith In the us r ous peop e whoae natu ral d sposit on Is in the d rection of v r j tuous exce ence Fund Being Raised j In Shanghai a few merchants have j banded together with tl e object of creat ing wha s desc bed as a na onal sa i vat on funa the aim being to ollect $10 000 000 and app y It to the reforma t on of he army and navy and to a r ous Indus r al enterp Ises a pro gramme for wh ch the proposed subsc p t on Is of cou se e re y nadequa e However about 5 BOO 000 has actually been subscr bed and he promo e s of the fund say that another ?2 500 000 has been promised Another party of a dent reformers has s arted a Na onal Mutual He p soc e y w h t e object of carrying a ogramn e of educat on and Industr a refo n nto e ery v age and c ty In Ch na |