Show I CHINESE HEDONISTS MARQUIS OKUMA DECLARES Life of Late Yuan Shi Kai Is Subject of Bitter Attack Special Cable to The Telegram TOKIO Aug 26 All An An attack on the life of the late Yuan Shi Kai Kal of China and on the characteristics characteristics char char- characteristics of the tile Chinese people has been made by Marquis Okuma Oku- Oku ma premier of Japan In the July number number number num num- ber of the Shin Nippon the premiers premier's own magazine out today The attack coming from the head of the Japanese government upon th the people of a country country country coun coun- try In friendly relation m with Japan has created a profound sensation throughout through through- out the empire Yuan Shi Kais Kai's death Is only deplorable deplorable de do- for his own sake salce wrote the premier according to what Is la declared to be an abridged but literal tion Ills his death has revealed China In all her weakness It is less than half halfa a year since the revolutionary outbreak gave a shock to his brain and the fact that this short term of nervous stress should hay have prostrated Yuan both bodIly bodily bod bod- ily thy and mentally proves the fundamental fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental moral weakness wl which ch underlies underlies underlies under under- lies the Chinese philosophy of life The Chinese are disciples of f the worst form of hedonism the doctrine that pleasure is the chief god of life The first thing Yuan did on realizing his ambition was to bury himself in the tho depths of the court surrounding himself himself himself him him- self with a special entourage of near relatives and favorites and guarding the safety of his person with threefold hedges of soldiery Yuan Was Moral Imbecile A good ruler knows he has the re respect respect re- re and affection of the ruled but a abad abad abad bad one must ever be tormented by an uneasy conscience the consciousness of guilt Yuan Shi Kai Kal while guarding himself with such a strong armed force torce had not forgotten to Indulge in all the luxuries of a medieval epoch Yuan was poverty strIcken in this that he ever over hungered voraciously for the pleasures of the flesh and had no moral support to ease him He Re had been re reduced reduced reduced re- re to the hopeless stage of moral imbecility he was lacking in the power to overcome physical and moral I cuties cuties- Yual s 's death is a great misfortune misfortune misfortune mis mis- fortune not only to himself but to the time Chinese people for it shows shoys that the people are arc touched more or less by the tho same vice which destroyed Yuan Yuan had no less than six proper wives and the number of his concubines Is beyond our imagination Such astounding astounding astounding astound astound- ing moral degeneracy engendered no doubt by centuries of evil national habit as it is is Is quite incompatible with the spirit of a who is ready re-ady to give his body and soul in tho the case of his countrymen Corruption Corruption which Is universally practiced among the Chinese is likewise likewise like lIke- wise the tho outcome of their national hedonism In order to satisfy their lust and licentiousness they must have and will hunt it money by hook or crook Th The shortest cut to riches for forthe the them Is to become an official because they can and do take bribes That the Chinese spend an unconscionably unconscionably unconscionably long Jong time at their meals is a notorious fact It Is no rare are thing thing- for tor Chinese to spend three or four tour hours eating one meal mal This comes of their hedonistic instinct of eating for the sake of eating It Is Impossible to ask any patriotism from a people who are areso areso areso so utterly given over to sensual lusts Justs To recover the lost prestige of China without her people getting out of their national evil is a hopeless task Marquis Okuma then criticises what he 10 calls the fondness of the Chinese for using beautiful language to em em- bellish hellish their Ideas which are more mOle often than not mere emptiness The premier then adds that China today is in a stagnant state physically and morally She seems so for gone In hor her disease that the terrors of a catastrophe catastrophe catastrophe catas catas- now staring her in the tho face lace are powerless to awaken he her people By the death of Yuan Shi Kai naI the Chinese degeneracy Is exposed in all its ugly and the Chinese nakedness people unless unless unless un un- less they are willing to see their country country country coun coun- try go to pieces must brace up and save themselves themselves- |