The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-24
THE EASTERN ARMAMENT.


Hawaii may claim something in the
regeneration of China. DIR. Sun Vat
Sen, man whose career is of world
wide notoriety resided here studied
here, and imbibed some of the most ad-
vanced of his doctrines among our peo-
pie OF the many he visited and talked
with was eX-Speaker Kaulukou, to
whom DR.. Sun Vat Sen is indebted for
This was the early beginning of the
Chinese Savant.
Later in his life DIR. Sun began to
apply the lessons he had learned, in the
West, to the actual state of things go
| ing on in the East Sun was a young
man, and the conservative element
didn't like Sun or any of his ways. He
was altogether too autocratic, so Sun
got the cold shake among the high
dignatories, and was allowed to browse
round as suited him. What suited him
was to be busy in the most advanced
places of thought in Europe and Ameri-
ca. The authorization was availed of
but DR.. Sun was a marked man. He
has run all kind of risks. He has been,
along with many other Chinese, less
known, the steady flame of a lamp Of
reform.
One has only to read of conditions in
China to see how thoroughly reform
must come. 1t is true that reform ac-
quires men of exceptional fibre for the
work, but DR.. Sun has that fibre. No
man could have gone round the world
with his life in his hand, unless he had
been of exceptional power.
The Cnnese authorities tried to kid
nap DR.. Sun in London. For that act
the Chinese embassy should have been
given it's "exequatur' but no such step
was taken, and not taking it was re-
garded in Picking as an act of weak
ness. 1t was, but not from the Picking
standpoint. The Chinese believe thcm-
selves safe for the hereafter, where the
/ Anglo-Saxon simply spends his time
adjusting difficulties.
Well this man, so we'll known
throughout the world, has unfurled the
flag of the people, as against the stand
ard of the autocracy. Once again in
China has the standard of revolt
against the Manchus been raised. The
celebrated Tae Ping rebellion was
against the same reigning dynasty. In
that rebellion Gordon of very different
fame, was a strong factor 1t was his
genius which brought that trouble to
a close.
Once more the flag of freedom is
raised in China. The reformers under
DR.. Sun have started their movement,
and this means life and death strug-
gle in China, between the men of ad-
Vanced idea, and the men of the old
conservative views. The struggle
against the foreigner at the gates of
Picking, or rather within the palace
walls of Picking, has little or nothing
to do with this southern Chinese move
ment. 1t is young China against old
China, and it is old China which has
challenged the Western world by it's i'll
conduct, but young China does not pro-
pose to be hampered by old China.
The outcome of the present situation
III Cnlnd IS surely one Wnlcn Will Ienu
to assimilate, even if it is in a small
degree, the East and the West. The
many Chinese who have been educated
/ in the west are going to have chance
to apply their knowledge for the good
of their country.
The Emperor of Japan gives his coll
league of China good advice when he
counsels him to Immediately return to
Picking, expell all reactionaries and APP
point able and progressive statesmen.
If this can be done, it will be a good
| thing, but if it is not done the stand
party in the south of China, may keep
that country in a state of turmoil for
I the next half of a century.