The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-04-19
DR.. sun YET sen COMES
A BoMBsHELL FOR LOCAL BOW
wONGs.
The Famous Chinese Revolutionist
Tells Them Their Society is a Mis-
take and a Waste of Money.

DR.. Sun Yat Sen, the exiled Chinese
revolutiOnist, arrived in Honolulu last
night on the steamship Nippon Maru.
DIR. Sun was born in Hawaii and grad
uated from Oahu College. He was
the leading spirit in the attempted re-
Volutionary coup d'tat at Canton in
'94, since which time he has been an
exile from China with a price on his
head His views of the Chinese situa-
tion and of the Bow Wongs or reform
society, which is said to have nearly
10000 members in Hawaii will be
bombshell to many local Chinese who
have been led to join the organization
and support it.
DIR. Sun says that the Bow Wong
wui is useless and will end an ineffect-
nal career amid internal dissensions
that have already begun. Already some
of the millionaire members in Singa-
pore have withdrawn their support
from X 'ang Yu Wei, and members are
asking what there is to show for the
millions that have been subscribed to
the society.
The revolutionary party has the real
strength of the reform and progressive
element in China, according to Dr. Sun
It's membership extends throughout
China in secret societies that are wait
ing their chance. Instead of striking
for the return of the emperor KWang
Hsu to power and trying to induce him
to issue again the reform edicts that
are supposed to have caused his de-
thronement, the revolutionary party
wants absolute abolition of the Man
chu dynasty and establishment of a
republican form of government in
China.
China is far more fit for republi-
-canism that the average foreigner
thinks" said DR.. Sun. Europeans
and Americans think that the country
is an absolute monarchy, but as q
matter of fact 1t is very democratic in
it's system of management of public
business. The people manage their
own affairs. The public activities of
the official class consist of simply col
lecting all the money they can and
they leave the people to manage the
details of government. The people
therefore are far more ready to man
age a Republic than Is generally
supposed"
Leung Chi-tso, the exiled reformer
who organized the Bow Wongs here
and is now doing similar work in sgd
ney, is spoken of very highly by DR..
SUM- but the latter thinks that Leung s
policy is a mistake. He also Is inclined
to think that Leung will desert the
standard of reformer K'ang Yu Wei
and become a revolutionist.
1.-THE revolutionary party is doing
not attempt to do anything while the
present troubles in China are unset
tied. When treaties of peace are made
the time to act may come. But If we
were to make move now to overthrow
the government and establish repub-
lie, the powers would undoubtedly step
in at once and partition China. By it's
methods of organization and its work
the Bow Wongs society is made help
less in China. The imperial govern
ment has lists of all it's members and
none of them can go back to China
while the imperial government lasts.
The punishment for joining the society
would be execution"
DR.. Suns opinions will command
great respect among the Bow Wongs
and other Chinese here. He has at
tanned international repute as a leader
in the movement to modernize China
and is a man for whose capture at any
time for some years past the Chinese
government would have given large
reward. The leaders of the Bow Wong
society here are his personal friends,
All Mi, the head of the society on Maui,
being his brother. The fact that DR..
Sun is opposed to the Bow Wong plan
will greatly reduce Bow Wong power
locally, though he says he is working
for the same ends as the Bow Wongs.
In the end the reform society's object
is 10 REFORM ana mOuernlze Cnlnd anu
such is also the aim of the revolution
airy party. But the Bow Wong s
wealthy supporters all over the world
have been putting up immense sums OF
money for no purpose, says DR.. Sun
They have nothing to show for it and
the imperial government knows all
they have done or are doing. Their
method is in direct contrast to that OF
DIR. Suns party. The latter is abso-
luely secret and as a result it has man.
aged to honeycomb China with secret
organizations that will strike when the
time comes, while the Bow Wong Wui
with millionaire supporters and contri-
butors in Singapore and other places
outside of the empire has done
nothing and can do nothing to bring
about any results in China.