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Show i i HOPE FOR CHINA Unrest and Disturbance More Apparent Than Real, Minister Declares I PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14. Present ! unrest and disturbance In China is apparent rather than real and "the pains which China is experiencing is the pains of growth." Ir Alt're.1 Sze. Chinese minister to the United Btates, declari .1 In an address tonight before the American Academy of Political and Social Science. "To some western observers," hv said, "the republic of China seems still to be tossed in an unceasing storm. Some doubt whether the Chl- nose people hav0 the real capacity for self -govern mejit and whether China I after all is qualified to enjoy the bles- ' sings of democracy'." The conclusions, he asserted, were pessimistic. It is not, ho believed, chat the Chinese people wen- incapable of self government but thai they were not used to the machinery of government. "Once the machinery is mastered," i he declared, "there '1I arise a splendid splen-did example of modern democracy In I Asia." The Chinese civilization, he explained, explain-ed, had become more complex and tho ! Interests of the people more diversify (d las the result pi contact with western civilization. China was passing through I a transition period, he said, without he unity of desire, osplraton and taste I that once characterzed it. lira wing a distinction between social so-cial democracy and political demo-I demo-I cracy, he said (hat China was a social democracy. "In such a community," he declared, "democracy is a spirit, a mental at-' at-' t '.ude. and the machinery of govorn-1 govorn-1 ment is not present or If present is not perceived. Political government , comes iuto existence later and unlike social democracy It is not natural, and acompaniod by tUo rise of different classes. Then come complex attempts j to harmonize the Interests of the different dif-ferent nartics or rrouDs of neon'e "The confusion thai prevails in China, Chi-na, he said, was due to her atten.pt to adjust old ideas to new ideas. Grad- i ually, China's four hundred million people were absorbing the new ideas of government, he declared. I J-Ie declared the militarist faction still pnaured. but that Its influence was rapidly diminishing. The temporary presence of the militarists, he said, was ! essential to the final success of de- i mocracy. |