Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-10

claimed himself president of the republic
Next among the revolutionaries Is Kang
feon Wei. of whom We heard much n
1893 I'm connection with his aid to the
late emperor i'm his cffor. TO reform the
administrations. The return to power of
the empress dowaeer of somber reputa-
ton was the signal for kang Yeon Vets
flight He succeeded in reaching Hong
kong. thence he went to SinEa pore Java
and finally Nagasaki. where he stil re-
sides under the protection Of the japanese
police.
kang Yeon Wei is not likely to Quit
his retirement. being Of philosophical
and literary turn of mind. He has writ
ten work recently published entitled
the United States OF the World"
IS
Kang Yeon Wei foresees a general
union of people. based upon a complete
reorganization OF society In
Glass this program. unfortunately.
Dr. kang takes no note Of race
prejudice caste, which is all
the more remarkable that I'm China there
exists the very hest lesson on that head
which may he adduced.
The hatred between Chinese and Manchu
is race hatred which exists since i64a
more than eight generations. and judging
from the ferocity with which tho victor
massacred each other the hatred grows
with time
WI Ting-fanc former Chinese minister
al Washington. may be counted among
the active partisanS of revolution and of
a new China. We are informed. indeed.
by recent dispatches. that IL was really
Mr.. WI who prevailed upon the regent
Prince Chun to abdicate in favor of the
republic. Mr.. WI. of course prudenty
issued his appeal from Shanghai. with
the full knowledge of the decapitating
tendencies of the Manchu government at
Picking.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen has been termed the
Mazzini of China" He possesses a strik-
ing personality and looks more Indian
than Chinese. He is the son of a Cam
tonese Chinaman. converted to Christi
antty. He went to school in London and
having returned to Hongkong with his
mother he studied medicine at the med-
cal college of DIR. Camille Graduated he
removed to Macao to practice and sub
| seouenfly to Canton. where he became
! affiliated with the many societies IN that
| hotbed of sedition. In 1895 he organized
5000 men in societies spread throughout
| a vast area. The organization was dis
covered and manv were decapitated. Sen
| escaping with difficulty to Hongkong
whence he proceeded to London.
In London, while passing through
| Portland place. he suddenly hustled
into a doorway and found himself i'm
pr'soned in the Chinese embassy. Sen
| found means to send letter t. his friend
and protector. DR.. Camille with the
suit that the foreign office promptly
/ caused his release.
DR. Sun has been the soul of the revo-
| luton. He is mystic with generous IDEAS
and dreams of a republic on the model az
| the United States.
Gen. Homer Lea is an American, "A ma
tive of Denver, Col. and later resident
of Los Angeles. Cal lie
Homer is the author of a book,
| THE Ealor Of Ignorance.
Aoo' in which he has drawn
! the picture of japanese invasion. which
| has attracted the attention not only or
] the American military student, but OF a
| like class in England Aside from the
acknowledged military genius displayed
| in the book Gen. Lea possesses the genius
to command Frail physically he is strong
mentally and it will be singular If he does
not quickly bring order out of chaos and
pave the way for prompt establishment
Of the Chinese republic.
| There are obstacles in the way. The
| Chinese committee may be opposed by
Yuan-Shi-Kai with his Manchu-Chinese
combination. but i repeat, Yuan has no
money and when this becomes known, ~
| it is known already perhaps. the opposi-
| ton will disappear quickly. The chinese
army has little. if any, cohesion Ii num-
bers on paper 24o.s1o men OF all arms. II
has never been commanded. 1t has never
( been led to battle. Its armament is IN
| complete; il has no type of arms, no uni
! formity of munitions no military routes.
! no means of communication and a gen.
eral staff wholly inefficient Gen. Lea
has a great work before him. but il will
be found that DIR. Sun Vat Sen has made
| all things possible by the spirit he has
| created in young China.
| A first invasion of Tartars succeeded in
, reaching Picking in Ills. The Chinese,
| whose mystic mind and philosophic ma
| ture led him to regard war with repug-
nance, accepted to pay the Tartar tribute
| Finally goaded to oppression he appealed
| to the Mongols for aid. and ii was then
! that Ghenghis Khan established the Mon
gol dynasty tunder the title of the Yuen
| dynasty. which reigned from 1850 to 1868
| The Chinese rebelled and, led by the
monk Chu-Yuen Chang, drove out the
Mongols and established the Ming dynas-
ty. The Manchus in turn proffered their
| aid in the suppression of local rebellion.
and. having secured a footing in China,
esta blished the Manchu dynasty, under
the title of "Ta-Esing," in 1643.
| Yuan-Shi-Kai is Chinese. but he fails to
| recall the sacrifices and devotion OF the
Chinese bonZe, who In 1868
| China'S established the Ming dynas-
ty: he is unmindful of the
AiCniCA. treason OF another China
man. Gen WI. who permitted the Man.
chus TO pass the great wall 2i5 years
later, which established once more the
, rule Of TIE stranger in China
Since sixty or more years China has re-
belled at frequent intervals against the
Manchu. all of which attempts have been
repressed with merciiess cruelty. And il
should be remarked with a sense OF
shame that the attempts of the Chinese
scourge of the ferocious Manchu has been
met each time by the indifference of occi-
dental governments.
The Tapping rebellion, the Boxer rebel
lion, like the present rebellion, were all
anti-dynastic. When the brave and gen
erous American Burgevine abandoned the
lever victorious army" and espoused the
cause of the Taepings he endeavored TO
make the justice of their cause known
to America and Europe. Bursevine was
assassinated by the Manchu mandarins
and his body thrown into the Yangtse-
kiang. His memory is still revered by
the patriot Cinnamon of Shanghai.
The Boxer rebellion was anti-dynastic
against the Manchus And if IL was made
to appear that it was anti-foreign il was
due to the intrigues Of that fiendish dow
ager empress, of whom Yuan-Shi-kai. il