If you look at the leaders of the 1920s from this perspective, Chiang Wei-shui was the one who best combined practicality with idealism. Even as the farmers organization and the TCA became increasingly inactive as a result of pressure from the Japanese colonial authorities, and the Taiwan Communist Party had gone completely underground, the TPP ﹘ facing possible banning at any moment ﹘ still carried on pursuing its ideals.
震撼當局在民眾黨推動的各項運動中，「反對鴉片新特許」及「揭發霧社事件」，最是刺痛總督府要害。日本治台法令向來十分嚴格，惟獨對鴉片採自然消滅的「漸禁主義」，並發給吸食者特許證，早為社會運動人士極力反對。