Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-04-19
TRIALS OF SUN YAT SEN

dozen soldiers outside When !
saw them ] calmly took up one OF
the sacred books and began 70 read
aloud They listened for a time, and
and after a while one OF them spoke.
and asked a question. answered
n. and they asked others. Then en-
sued a long argument. and ] stated
my case and The case OF the thou
sands who thought as aid az full
length. as wC.l az could. ~ the
end Of two hours ne TWO men went
away and : heard them saving In
the street. That o. not the man we
want He Is a good man and spends
his life healing the sick
] estimate that the rewards upon
my head once amounted altogether
70 not less than seven hundred thou
sand baels 100000. In these cir
oumstances | nave been asked why
had gone about In London so freely
and taken so few precautions Ny
answer is that my life now is Of lit
tile consequence for there are plenty
70 take my place Ten years ago. 10
j had been assassinated or carried
back 70 China for execution. the cause
would have suffered. Now the or
sanitation ! have spent so many wears
In bringing about Is complete
t.KtA "a. a.. -.
Some OF my friends we're always
anXioU- a my safety but as 10
myself perhaps as @ i,.. f0hi-
nese fatallsm these things give me
little trouble When my time zones
II will come At Marking MAI.
once walked into my cabin on board
a junk In tho early morning.
Sun" he said II am a poor man
and have wife and many chill
dren."
II understand You mean that
some one has offered you hundred
dollars 10 betray me-
More than that" he said
"A thousand them"
Five thousand. sun You are
only one man, Sun. and T2ehi can
have the l!ves OF many She hates
you, and win have your head cat off.
and then 81 will be no good TO any
body. u YOU give u to me now e.
WIN make ms an rich and happy
VERY true" ! said My head Is
worth nothing 10 me. but Is Il worth
a great deal 20 YOU? For &c You be-
traycd me- the mandarins would not
only take all the money away from
you, but your children would 60 on
being poor for thousands Of years.
and millions OF other children. Lis
ten, jim ! belong 10 YOU and there
fore my head is vour head Would
YOU take $4,000 for your own head
Put 90 tell Your chief that am
aboard this junk shall rot stir"
He fell at my feet and begged my
pardon. But was sorry to hear the
next day that this man had drowned
himself, because he said he could
,hdure the disgrace OF having
thought of giving me up to my enc
niles.
Grievances Against the Manchus.
! will here enumerate the princi-
pal wrongs we have suffered during
the two hundred and sixty years OF
the Tartar rule:
|. The Manchurian Tartars gov.
ern for the benefit OF their race and
not for that OF their subjects
2. They oppose our intellectual
and material progress.
3. They treat us as a subjected
race and deny us the rights and priv.
ileges OF equality.
4 They violate our inalienaDle
rights to life, liberty and property.
2. They promote and encourage
the corruption OF officialdom.
6. They suppress the liberty of
speech.
% iHts AhN h0 AfdNlif anu hl-
Justly without our consent.
s. They practice the most bar
barous tortures
O. They deprive us uniustly OF
our rights.
10. They do not fulfill their duty
OF protecting the life and property of
the people living under their iuris-
dictlon.
Although We have reasons TO hate
the uanchus We have tried to live in
peace with them. but without sue
cess. 'rhirefore We, the Chinese
people. have resolved % adopt pa
cific measures II possible, and vio.
lent ones II necessary, in order to be
treated with justice and 10 establish
peace in the Far East and through
out The world We mean 10 30
through with what We have begun
no matter how much blood viii be-
split