The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-11
FUTURE OF
HIS LAND.
leung Chi-tso Speaks
on China.
ADDRESS BY REFORMER
Brilliant Young Head of the Move
ment Against the Empress
Talks Freely.


whose head Government has So.
price of $4,000, but those who went to
Progress Hall last evening were fortu-
nate in seeing and hearing the friend of
the young Chinese Emperor Kwang
Hsu, the mover of the Reform move
ment against the Empress Dowager.
This speaker was Leung Chi-Tso who
fled from China to escape the vengeance
of the Dowager and the fate that befell
eight of his followers
Progress Hall was well lighted, the on
ly decorations being the draping of two
flags at the rear of the stage-that of
the United States and the five-ciawed
royal dragon flag of the Chinese Empire.
Seated on the platform were the COM
mittee having charge of the lecture.
They We're Messrs. H. A. Hin, Lau Yang
Man, w. w. Ahana, A. Y Sheu, Wong
Su King, Tong Kau and Lau Ting, the
latter being the bodyguard of the young
reformer in his travels. Mr. L. r. Kent
well acted as interpreter. He had a ar
ficult mission to perform, as he does not
speak exactly the same dialect as Leung
Chi-tso. Applause from the Americans
present who understand the Chinese Ian
guage punctuated the speakers remarks
and he was listened to with close atten-
ton to the end.
The reformer is a man whose face i'm
presses, one with sincerity in his endeaV.
ors to create sympathy for the young
Chinese Emperor and to enlist the help
of the Powers to give the nation a good
10 wit led
of general world conditions which con-
WINGED the audience that ne is a weli-in-
formed man. He has an open counte-
nance and q persona. magnetism rarely
met with in persons of the Oriental
races. His address last evening was one
in which he showed that the aim of the
reformers was only 10 enlist the help of
civilized nations to assist them in Great
ing a government whic.. will make China
rise out of its middle ages He stated
with emphasis that the people of China
were not a naturally bad race but were
influenced by bad officials, who instruct
ed them to hate foreigners. Otherwise
the Chinese. he says. would be deemed
good. These officials he declares should
be removed and men with modern ideas
of government put in their places.
The Boxers, he said, had the sympathy
of the Empress Dowager and she was
undoubtedly behind the present move
sionaries in general In China no one is
allowed to carry arms of any kind, 1t is
the contention of Leung Chi-tso that as
the Boxers came into the field armed
with modern rifles and equipments, the
Chinese Government, backed by the Dow
ager, armed them.
In opening his address he said:
You all belong TO country with a
good government You are a liberty
loving people, a people that love right
eousness. / know it is very hard to have
a good government: a government of
that kind comes from hard work. Today
China resembles Europe and America as
they were 100 years ago. Today, l and
many of my friends of the Reform par
ty are willing to take the responsibility
on cur shoulders of making a good gov
eminent for the Chinese people. / shall
speak to you tonight of the present and
future of China. All people who read the
great danger. Where does this danger
lie? 1t lies with the Empress Dowager
and her officials. There is big revo-
tuition in China. The Boxers are the peo-
pie who have given US the trouble; they
derive their encourag cement from the
Dowager. The foreign nations have sus-
pected that the Dowager is in sympathy
with the Boxers.
81 can easily prove that the Dowa ger is
with this movement because the Boxers
are supposed to fight with their fists and
hands only. Where did they get their
modern rifles and equipments? They
must have obtained these from the Dow
ager and the Government The Chinese
people are not allowed to carry arms;
yet when this trouble broke out they
were fully equipped, and now it seems
that these rifles were given by the Gov
eminent. On the 18th of May and the
1st of June the Empress Dowager is
zt1a1 10 nd ha ayt
of them shows that her full sympathies
are with the Boxers. The proclamations
read that the Boxers must protect them
selves, because foreign missionaries
some good and some bad-were against
| them, and to protect themselves they
must fight. Again, General Yang Fu
Tung killed several Boxers and he was
| degraded for so doing.
! "a few days ago 1 received news from
| China that Prince Twung had taken 9
! large number of these Boxers into his
service. He has taken those who were
under the Eight flags which have join
ed together just for the purpose Prime,
| Twung wished them to. Prince Twuns
is against the foreigners. There are
more proofs that the Dowager show:
, her sympathies with the course of th'
Boxers, but need not dwell upon them
1.-THE Dowager and her friends have in
directly through the Boxer moyemen
caused many foreigners to be killed
The Dowager rules the country with al
iron hand. The Chinese people are al
good people I don't wish to fatte
them, but / know they are very goo'
people. The bad people are the officia
class. If the people have turned bad.
is because the officials have offered then
inducements and instructed them to b
so.
Human Is the most conservativ
province of China and the people ar
very stubborn and opposed to foreigner
entering IL They cut the telegraph wire
and pelt river steamers to show their dis
pleasure. About three years ago Chan
Flu Chang the Governor, and his party
all reforXers, came into the province
and affairs have changed since much 70
the better. The people have listened I
his counsel and there has been no trou
BILE there against the foreigners sine
then. If the Chinese people are oppose
to foreigners. 1t is not their own faui
but the fault Of the officials. They teac
them to oppose the foreigners. If W
have good government and good off
Gals, then they will be to teach our pee
pie to respect the foreigners.
Those who are In power wish to clos
the ports of China entirely and prever
any foreigners coming In. That Is tn
sentiment of the Chinese Government.