The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-18
YALE CHINESE FAVOR REBELS Students at University Sympa- thize With Uprising Against
 kaachu Dynasty PnIAE MOVERS YOUkG MER Government Educating Them, and
 They Return to Fight Its

Notwithstanding the fact that the | majority of the fifteen or more Chinese students who are at Yale university are being educated at the expense of the Chinese government. and in a sense its charges. the sentiment among these students is almost universally on the side of the revolutionists in the present rebellion in China AL though there are among them repre- sentatiyes of the Manchu line. the oc- cidental ideas and education have so impressed their manner of thinking that they have forsaken their affilia- tions and cast their sympathies with the men who are now trying to oust the Manchus and bring to the Chinese the government that will place them among the progressive peoples of the world.
 This sympathy is tacit one, and no tangible evidence of it has been given to the Ievolutionists, for it would hardly be diplomatic to for swear the source which is educating them. At the same time it is the es- sence of irony to contemplate the gov ernment in the hands of the Manchus educating young men to overthrow it's powers, and set up in it's stead a gov- ernment of representation and free dom. Wherever education of the west Or Japan is allowed to permeate the youth of China, he is almost certain, in spite of his family nationality. be he Manchu, or Chinese, to array him. self on the side of the oppressed and seek the freedom of .hiss native land, though it may mean the destruction of his family's power.
 eve hope the revolutionists will succeed in bringing to China, the re- forms that we need" said MT. H. Sun, hon Ioi and one of the men sent by the Chi nese government to be educated at Yale, yesterday in speaking of the subject to Journal-C Courier represen. tative .'But we believe they are leading forlorn hope, except that the rebellion may enhance the reforms that we are so eagerly seeking to put through. The chief obstacle to the movement of young China, is the atti- tude of the Chinese conservatives, who hold dear as life the present gov ernment, and resist any rising against the reigning dynasty. Patriotism, as they call 1t, Is strong among such men the leaders of old China.
 ..The prime movers of this effort to free China from it's centuries of thrali- dom are young men educated in Jap an and America, chiefly Japan, who have imbibed the ideas and thoughts of the west. They have realized the
 
 China needs and should have to put her among enlightened nations of the earth
 "The reforms which young China is anxious to effect are the abolition of the custom of wearing queues. The imposition of this custom came from our conuuerors the Manchus, who came down upon China as the Huns and Viscigoths did upon Rome in the first century. In fact the whole reign of the Manchus through centuries has been fighting to regain our power. We wish after the right to wear our hair cut. the very necessary abolition of teaching classics in the grammar schools.
 .aThe Chinese youth in these schools must give nine hours of the week to the study of the classics of Coperni- GUS These are not like, the English classics, if they had any literary merit we should not object, but they are simply a code of rites out-of-date and impracticable for the twentieth cen tury They are in a manner like the Mohammedan Koran. We want more attention paid in our schools to mod ern literature.
 "The third and most important re- form that we hope for as result of the rebellion is the change of per sonnel of the cabinet. Of the eleven ministers of the Imperial cabinet, nine are Manchus. These men are very old and conservative. The few young ones who are in the cabinet are young and unprincipled and under the in- f1uence of the older ones in enslaving the people,
 ''The fourth reform sought is the abolition of the Tartar soldiers head quarters in the principal cities of the empire. After the Tartars conquered