The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-07-25
OF SUDDEN DEATH.

Consul Yang Wei Pin has a some
what lurid story to tell and he told it
TO the newspapers yesterday. This
representative of a power which has
allowed the German Ambassador to be
murdered in the streets of Picking, and
had his dead body dragged ignomini
ously through it's fostering thorough
fares-This representative of a power
which has murdered missionaries,
which is at the present moment menac-
ing the lives of some of the foremost
men in America and Europe and is
violating the usages and immunities of
the ambassador which even Attila and
Genghis Khan held sacred-This repre-
sentative wants protection.
From whom does he want protec-
ton. From the American citizens of
Hawaii. Certainly not They regard
him as too far beneath them to trouble
themselves about him. A man who
represents a government such as
has been going. on in China is not worth
consideration. The average Hawaiian
citizen does not know the name Of the
Chinese Consul, and cares not to know
1t.
Still Consul Yang Wei Pin needs pro-
lection. His countrymen have been
sending him anonymous letters, and
they are of such a blood thirsty char
acter that the Consul finds sleep diff
cult. If the consul had good con-
science he would sleep quite comfort
ably. Macbeth was said by Shake
speare to have murdered sleep. 1t looks
very much as if Consul Yang had en-
jOyed himself on Macbeth's lines
The representative of the government
which has murdered one of the Euro
pean representatives, and has probably
cut the threats of the representatives Of
all the Western powers, is not in posi-
ton to ask for much more than tie
absolutely polished courtesy which
diplomats agree to use, and the protec-
ton which has not been vouchsafed in
turn.
One would really like to know 'he
genuineness of the consuI's letters.
Are they really letters from a crank
correspondent, or are they letters writ
ten by friends of the consul to scare
him into putting himself under police
protection" The Star confesses that
the consuls story while plausible is
decidedly fishy.
The consul would have the public be-
lieVe that the Bow Wong Society is
threatening him. Some time ago when
the Bow Wong Society wanted char
ter, the consul insinuated that in the
interests of peace and good will it
TVnn11 "a irnr t,
10 the Bow Wongs, for they were a set
OF hlghb1nders and the term was
freely branched round at his sugges-
ton. Since then We have been able TO
understand and become better acuuain-
ted with the Bow Wongs, and have
found out its real objects 1t is true |
these are in a measure political. for |
they look to the regeneration of China |
by means of Western learning, whereas
the counter society, the Boxers looks |
10 keeping China in it's present condi-
non by means of the murder and de-
struction of every foreigner within the
confines of the Flowery Kingdom.
OF course the Bow Wongs may have
among them an average number of
cranks, and one of them may have in
dulged himself in writing the letters.
There is probably no party in any part
OF the world that has not cranks at
tached to it, who indulge in like
Vagaries. The crank who confines him
self to anonymous letters however is
not dangerous. His energy is worked
off in his literary illusions. The crank
VINO is dangerous is the hooding william
whose energy is worked off in act
Against the latter there is no guarding.
Against the former there is no need of
precaution.
or the latter class is the murderer
OF the Empress of Austria, the murder
er of President Carnot, the murderer of
William Terriss, the actor the muir
derer Of President Garfield and a hun
dred others. But the man who writes
anonymous letters, threatening death,
is far too careful of his own neck to
FISK 1t by putting himself into peril.
The wise man who receives anonymous
letters puts them in the fire and thinks
no more about them. The timid man
PUSHES for police protection against
what is practically a DOGGY man.
However it has yet to be proved that
the Bow Wongs really did send the let
ter and not some friend of the consul
to win sympathy for him.
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