The Independent . cannot influence the general trend ofevents a whit. I have heard a good deal about the dissolution ofParliament, the dismissal of the Premier and the resig-nation of the President, but they are rumors, pure andsimple. On the contrary, I look upon the future of Chinawith optimism. We are gradually setting our house inorder. Peace prevails thruout the breadth and length ofthis vast country. Provincial contributions pour into thegovernment treasury regularly and the people are con-tent with their present state of affairs, and would bemuch better off if natural resources still hi
The Independent . cannot influence the general trend ofevents a whit. I have heard a good deal about the dissolution ofParliament, the dismissal of the Premier and the resig-nation of the President, but they are rumors, pure andsimple. On the contrary, I look upon the future of Chinawith optimism. We are gradually setting our house inorder. Peace prevails thruout the breadth and length ofthis vast country. Provincial contributions pour into thegovernment treasury regularly and the people are con-tent with their present state of affairs, and would bemuch better off if natural resources still hidden in theground were systematically developed. A new chapter of Chinese history has begun, and Iam sure to find at the end of 1917 that it will containless of discord and more of cooperation between differ-ent factions and parties. It must be understood that theChinese Republic is the outcropping of the steadygrowth of forces which make for economic and politicalenlightenment in Asia and which work for unity and. PRESIDENT LI harmonious cooperation amongChinese leaders. Not a flash in the pan ofsome imaginative impulse andinspiration, the Republic ofChina has been started and hasgot to stay. Evil-minded peopletrying to overthrow the Repub-lic will be overthrown in turn. The task of turning this greatagricultural nation, withinwhose confines there is a fifthof the worlds inhabitants, intoan industrial one is not easy;but China has at last set herfoot on the path of modernprogress and will go far on it ifshe is given time. We are mak-ing progress, but what we wantis a little time to readjust our-selves to the new order of thingsand conciliate the new and oldforces, which might be utilizedeffectively in the solution of theurgent economic problem. How to bend every effort to use this enormous latentpower of the millions of our labor for the developmentof our unlimited resources occupies our sole attention atpresent. American participation in a commercial wayis cordially invited i
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