parliament will get in the constitutional monarchy, but I would like to point out here that it is better to give them less power than to deceive them.  If they are given less power, and if they want more, they will contend for it.  Should the government deem it advisable to give them a little more, well and good.  Should they be unfit for the possession of greater power, the government can issue a proclamation giving the reasons for not complying with their request, and they will not raise trouble knowing the true intention of the government.  However, honesty is the most important element in the creation of a constitutional monarchy.  It is easy and simple to practise it.  The parliament must have the power to decide the laws and fix the budgets.  Should its decision be too idealistic or contrary to the real welfare of the country, the Government can explain its faults and request it to reconsider its decision.  Should the parliament return the same decision, the Government can dissolve it and convoke another parliament.  In so doing the Government respects the parliament instead of despising it.  But what the parliament has decided should be carried out strictly by the Government, and thus we will have a real constitutional Government.  It is easy to talk but difficult to act, but China like all other countries has to go through the experimental stage and face all kinds of difficulties before a genuine constitutional government can be evolved.  The beginning is difficult but once the difficulty is over everything will go on smoothly.  I emphasize that it is better to give the people less power at the beginning than to deceive them.  Be honest with them is my policy.

Mr. Ko:  I thank you very much for what you have said.  Your discussion is interesting and I can understand it well.  The proper method of procedure and honesty of purpose which you have mentioned will tend to wipe out all former corruption.

    Mr. Ko, or the stranger, then departed.

On this note the pamphleteer abruptly ends.  Having discussed ad nauseam the inadequacy of all existing arrangements, even those made by Yuan Shih-kai himself, to secure a peaceful succession to the presidency; and having again insisted upon the evil part soldiery cannot fail to play, he introduces a new peril, the certainty that the foreign Powers will set up a puppet Emperor unless China solves this problem herself, the case of Korea being invoked as an example of the fate of divided nations.  Fear of Japan and the precedent of Korea, being familiar phenomena, are given a capital position in all this debate, being secondary only to the crucial business of ensuring the peaceful succession to the supreme office.  The transparent manner in which the history of the first three years of the Republic is handled in order to drive home these arguments will be very apparent.  A fit crown is put on the whole business by the final suggestion that the Constitutional Government of China under the new empire must be a mixture of the Prussian and Japanese systems, Yang Tu’s last words being that it is best to be honest with the people!