The Republican., 1900-08-02
LEUNG CHI-TSO.
Chinese RefOrmer of HOnOsulu
Whose Head Is Worth $685.
900 ir Peking.

Leung Chi-tso, also known as Leong
Kai Chew, lately came back from Ha-
waii, where he spent fortnight prose-
lytizing among the Chinese of that
island. He says that he had great
success, and those who accompanied
him tell the same story, says the
Honolulu Commercial Advertiser.
Leung Chi-tso, whose head delivered
at Peling is worth $4,000, according
to the officers of the dowager empress
of China and Ii Hung Chang, takes
some chances of losing his headpiece.
Though he was constantly watched
on his journey to Hawaii and during
his travels there, yet there were mo-
ments when a quick and determined
assassin might have earned the re-
ward. which would have meant a for
tune to the villain welding the weap-
on if he succeeded in convincing the
willy empress of the death of the man
she hates and fears.
With Leung Chi-tso to Hawaii went
a quartette of local Chinese who con-
stituted his cabinet and bodyguard.
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proved and whose courage and alert
ness could not be doubted. Their in
structions were to never let their
charge out of their sight or reach,
and to be ready any instant to defend
his safety.
Meetings were held at Hilo and 9TH
er places, and reform, as advocated
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Leung told his hearers at the planta-
ton and village gatherings that he
| had come to talk with them on a SUBJ
ject dear as life. He pictured to them
the condition in which the Chinese
emperor is, the restraint placed upon
him by the empress and the willing
ness of the emperor to give free
speech and share in the government
to every citizen of the Chinese empire
He advocated the adoption of Eu-
ropean methods and habits, the cut
ting off of queues and the general
showing to the world and to the con-
servative party in China that they
were followers of the reform party
and were determined to fight the bat
tie of reform to the bitter end.
All over Hawaii Leung Chi-tso car
ried the doctrine of opposition to the
empress. and found favor. He was
attended everywhere by bands of en-
thusiasts, and the Bow Wong Wui, a
branch of which he instituted in
Honolulu, has now membership of
many hundreds on the big island.
This will mean much money for the
Golfers of the society, which is strug-
Cling for the overthrow of the dow
ager. Leung Chi-tso's intentions are
to leave Honolulu for the mainland of
America as soon as his labors in the
islands are over. He will spend
long time in San Francisco and the
other cities of California, where his
countrymen live in numbers, and will
eventually go to Europe. He will
have great influence to help him in
San Francisco, where the leading mer-
chants are in sympathy with the re-
form plans.
When an adviser to the emperor
and a teacher in college he, of
course, wore the conventional clothes
of the upper class and had as long
and handsome a queue as any other
reputable Chinese. 1t was not till the
empress sought his life that he aban-
doned the national costume of China
and cut off the pigtail which he prid-
ed. Now he assumes the everyday
coat and trousers of an American and
wears his hair short and parted in the