The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-06-19
KNANG HSJS APPEAL
RADICAL PROPOSAL or CHINESE
EMPEROR.
Asks the Powers to Unite To- Deliver
Him From the Empress and TO Es-
tablish "a protcctorate.

That the time is ripe Tor SuCn action.
He says that the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of
china would require thousands OF sol
diers TO maintain IL and centuries of
time to effect II. But that under the
plan he proposes the patriotism ana
national pride of the Chinese, and the
enlightening effect Of western civillZa-
ton would go hand i'm hand.
His proposal is thus put forward:
His Majesty is convinced through
amply trustworthy sources that the
loyal support of many scores of mill
lions of Chinese will be accorded to the
proposals. which he has approved for
putting an end to the state of anarchy
which has been brought about in his
beloved empire by the action of the
Empress Ts-Hsi The Empress has
brought about a division of China
among rival nations, in the various
portions allotted to which nations di-
verse interests prevail and diverse laws
and customs have been imposed with
out regard to the desires of the popu-
laton. So enormously do the people out
number the forces of their rulers that
the imposition of unwelcome laws and
customs may at any time lead to end
less bloOdshed and confusion, and even
tually to universal war.
THE Government of China being viz
tually non-eXistent, the Emperor pro-
poses that foreign Emperors, whose
troops dominate the capital, shall re-
move his imperial person from the pal
ace in which His Majesty is confined
as a prisoner shall declare the En-
press Tsi-Hsi and her present Ministers
usurpers, shall bring the Emperor
Kwang Hsu to Nankin Wu-Chang or
Shanghai, whichever said foreign Pow
ers deem to be the most suitable stu
alton for the new capital of the Chi
nese Empire.
Under the new conditions thus
brought into existence it is proposed by
His Majesty and his advisers that the
foreign Powers should declare joint
protectorate which will undertake the
task of governing the country through
His Majesty. This joint protectorate
should abolish the present boards at
Peking, appoint new Ministers from
among the Emperor's progressive otli-
Gals, and form strong foreign advis-
DRY boards, who will voice the selec-
ton and framing of reforming laws to
be adopted. Said board should disband
the existing so-called armies, which
are useless and only constitute sources
of danger, and in their place should
establish a foreign differed gendarme-
RE and provide gunboats for the pro-
lection of the rivers. The foreign joint
protectorate should assume control of
customs, posts and telegraphs, work
ing these departments with the best
Chinese officials available. The pro-
tectorate should also establish uni
form currency, readjust the present
corrupt, unequal system of taxation,
open the country to to the Powers who
guarantee the integrity of China, as
unreSerVedly as Japan is opened.
1T is proposed further that all for
eign relations shall be subject to the
approval of a special board represent
ing the Powers most largely interests
l.. a., ~, oh oil
insure the freedom and safety of resi-
dence, religion, travel and pursuits for
Chinese and foreigners alike, and make
certain the abolition of the present
hated regime. The proclamation of a
new China under peoples beloved by the
Emperor would meet with general
peaceful acceptance and would result
in the dissolution of the present dis
turbances. The outcome would be the
introduction of new ideas and projects
and the dismissal of the old ones. The
people are ignorant and easily excited
to violence by those whose interests
compel them to maintain their present
vicious system of mandarinates, which
His Majesty by himself is too weak to
change, but which he will be strong
enough to accomplish under benevolent
foreign auspices.
China is ripe for a change in the
tide, which the reactiOnaries are Vainly
seeking to stem. If it should be so, on
the other hand, that the foreign Powers
seriously contemplate the dismember-
ment of the Chinese Empire, they will
have before them the huge task of
facing dense millions of people, who,
though they lack training and make
contemplate soldiers, possess boundless
powers of passive resistance and would
be able to wear out the patience of any
European rulers who would seek to
govern without regard to the prejudices
of the oldest civilization in the world.
THE conquest and division of China
would be possible with 100000
troops, but to retain the government of
the Empire it would require 100000, 600
soldiers and centuries of work.
"All would accept the Emperor
Kwang Hsu, who is completely identi-
| fed with the people and wholly against
| their present vicious rulers, who de-
priVed him of power and brought about
conditions which the Powers could cas-
| lily have averted. His Majesty and his
advisers beg Ameica and Japan to
pause before resorting to disember-
ment, which can be deferred at least
until the Emperor's efforts to govern
his people and restore happiness to
this great division of the human race
have proved abortive. If the people are
assured that the Powers guiding and
protecting His Majesty do not intend
to swallow the country piecemeal the
people and soldiers will return unques-
tioningly to the allegiance from which
the Empress Tsi-Hsi has diverted