The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-25
SUN YAT sun,
CHINESE REBEL
Story of the Hawaiian-Raised
Maker of Trouble for
China'S Rulers.

There is always local interest taken
in the adventures of DR.. Sun, who was
raised and partly educated in Homo
lulu. Following is one of the latest
stories about him, from the San Fran
cisco News Letter:
The weight given to the confiscation
of the correspondence of Sun Vat Sun,
the Chinese rebel, by the Chinese Gov
eminent, recalls the fact the gentle
man in question must be rather care
less about his correspondence. His first
defeat in rebellion against the Impe-
rial Government of China, came as a
result of his falling to be on hand to
receive a communication addressed to
him. This time it was a telegram, and
his untimely absence nearly cost him
his head, as we'll as the heads of his
friends, who had sheltered him during
his temporary sojourn in Canton. These
facts have never been made public.
1t was in the summer of 1899, just be-
fore the Boxer troubles of the next
spring, when China was quivering with
agitation and excitement born of many
rumors of revolution and rebellion
within her borders. One Sunday night,
during a union meeting of the mission
aries of the various churches at Cam
ton, a messenger brought telegram
to the venerable physician, DR.. Kerr,
since deceased. It had come to Chi
nese family who had given shelter to
DR.. Sun Vat Sun, when he stayed in
Canton. Because of his temporary alb
sence, the telegram had been opened,
and the enigmatic contents had alarm
ed the friend. who hurried it over to
the Foreign Devils for interpreta-
ton. though he himself was a gradu-
ate of a German university, and Well
versed in several languages, English
among them. 1t read: THE English
mud will arrive Monday morning. Be
ready for -"
The American doctor Immediately
sent it to the American Consul, who
in turn sent it to the Chinese Viceroy
at Canton. He met the English
mud which is the Chinese name for
cement, and the barrels in which it was
packed were opened, after several were
allowed to be taken away by coolies,
go as to discover the destination, and
in Canton with the planned rebellion
Instead of mud they were packed
with guns, ammunition, hatchets and
all the implements of war. The coolies
were followed to. the Presbyterian
chapel in the heart of the Chinese city,
where there were other boxes that had
been delivered to the deaf chapel keep
er, as books. He was perfectly inno-
cent, and was totally deaf, so that it
was an impossibiIity for him to have
taken a very active part in con-
spiracy, but his head was one of the
first to pay the penalty of being ac-
quainted with a rebel.
The family to whose residence the
telegram had gone left for Hongkong
the morning before the mud arrived.
They have never dared to venture into
Chinese territory since, so grave is the
offense of having harbored a rebel
against the Mongol Emperor of the
Chinese.
The plan had been to blow up the
official Yamen in Canton, kill the Off
Gals, and take possession of the city
combed by the rebels, but so quietly
with the proposed rebellion, |
that few We're beheaded.
DR.. Sun Vat Sun, hearing that there |
was traitor in his camp, had fed to
Macao the day before the telegram
came, and was soon in Japan, and |
thence came to America.
Dr. Sun Vat Sun had once been q |
of the Presbyterian church, |
but had been expelled long before, for |
He had used his for |
mer connection with the church to pro-
tect himself, unknown to those in au-
He was here in San Francisco two
years ago, and so infiamed the people |
here that numbers of adherents were
gained. He has for his backing the
arge and influential society of Chinese
Free Masons, the Gee Kung Tong"
which has been in existence as a re-
oellious or traitorous society ever since
The Mongolians came into power in
China over three hundred years ago.
There is not a village in China. nor a
Chinese settlement anywhere in the
world, that does not contain members
If this organization. 1t is the most
'o"ciAui oosoSiosioii VI Gal Inc ScSiot
societies in China, and claims an
,rigin as ancient as that of the Masons
If other countries. with which it has
many times to affiliate. It
ost it's original idea of brotherly-love
nd became merely "rebel' society,
when the Great Pure Dynasty came
nto power, though outwardly they
eign allegiance.
The society must not be COMPOUNDED
With the so-called Reform" or PRO
ect the Emperor organization, which
las for it's head the celebrated Hang.
II Kung Yau Wei. who claims to be a
econd Confucius. His reform move
nent is of a different type, and his
udden rise into public notice is an
ther story, quite as interesting.