The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-15

hood had much 10 do with forming hi
disposition and character Here o.
his rice plantation. I'm the buoyGnc
of youth when his young mind bogai
to expand, inspired by the perfection
of his surroundings by natures 'avisl
hand as we'll as the liberties admins
tered by the country, his vision be
came broadeucd and finally focused
itself across the seas on the countr!
his father had abandoned on accoun
Of its oppressive laws. He attuneC
his ear to the ground, the peoples
cries of want and distress mingled
with appeals for relief from the tyran
ny of the laws that bound to abiec'
slavery, were rumblings Of the legior
reverberated across the seas to his
home. His love of humanity, as vel
as his affection for his ancestral race
commanded him to go to their succor
He began at once system of inquiry
ana investigation as to how this relief
could be most surely accomplished
His dreams of emancipating his race
took possession of his soul, his ener'
gies became aroused and he set to
work to put them in motion. At this
time he was not yet in his teens.
He boarded a steamer for Hongkong
There he took advantage of the op'
portunity that presented itself. The
Alice Memorial Hospital of Medicine
had Just opened; this he entered and
shortly graduated therefrom. This
gave him access to sources of infor-
nation on the modern spirit that new
began to stir China's internal affairs.
Here he developed his scheme of con-
quest. which was one of peaceful
friends maintain he Is
by nature a peace-worshipper.
Having thoroughly mastered the
of the United States and
he laws under it, he proposed now to
apply the principles underlying them
n converting Chinese public opinion
o the fashion and model of American
IDEAS that he had brought with him.
lie began first to inCulcate this doc
rine into the minds of the Chinese
Students of foreign universities in To-
lio, Honolulu, San Francisco, Paris,
Berlin and London, and for twenty
ears he traversed these cities, back
nd forth, in all manner of DISCUSSES.
80 tactful and well organized was his
york that his identity ws5 never dis
overed but once-this was in Lon
on, when he was arrested by the Chi
ese Foreign Embassy resident there.
lis detention came nigh causing a
var. He was finally given his liberty
n his passport being verified.
Those students who were his pu'
i S gradually absorbed his ideals and
Ultimately became powerful mission
ries in the cause of his work and
Inversion of their people to the new
nd modern ideas of popular govern
lent. Finally, in due time, when he
elt his theories had taken root in the
md, he attempted, at the head of
mall armed force, to overpower the
imperial forces at Canton, but being
etrayed ere reaching there, his little
and was routed and forced to scatter,
e himself escaping as a boat-woman,
tier, to Hongkong. Subsequently he
eturned to Honolulu. Here he sue
,eded in enlisting in his cause his
.other, S. Ahmi, rich planter. Hav-
g been supplied by him with plenty
money and the sinews of war, he
'oceeded to the Straits Settlement,
here thousands of his countrymen !
ere rich ana anti-Manchu. Hastily
ganizng another army of invs5ion, ,
, marched his forces on Canton, I
1t again failed many of his follow
s being arrested and beheaded, him
IF escaping to Japan. Next be I
,gan preaching his doctrines of lib s
ty more openly and at the Imperial '
University of Japan; the students APP {
auded his actions. =
He continued his campaign work E
foreign lands for a time. His next {
tempt was six years ago, when he {
arted an expedition from the French |
ovince of Anam in Cochin China.
e proposed to deliver his attack 7
gain on Canton, and spent much c
rGtegy in plans in an effort to divert {
C Pekin government from his pur- '
'se. Through a mistake of one of G
S subordinates, his plans failed and S
,ain his followers were routed; some e
them We're captured and beheaded, f
:. Sun himself miraculously escap- G
g in the disguise of a tattered beg i
r. This premature failure ended 7
overt acts of warfare for a time I
ID were not renewed again until last e
inter-, when they proved successful a
overthrow of the Manchu dynasty, a
lich had been intrenched in abso- D
te and uninterrupted power for over
rec hundred years-ruling with an T