The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-29


raised by Yang tn and his fellow pro
meters Of the Chou An Huei leaves Us
continued that--unless the menace In.
dieated further on is understood n
mcBarchial restoration in China Is n
certainty
Referring to the ffNanking agree.
ment' between President Yuan's party
and the Revolutionary government
which was established at Marking, the
paper SAYS: "This settlement Il un
derstood by the South In the sense Of
great national charter which forever
ended the cycle of alien conquest that
hitherto swept China; and il is also
rfized as the title-deed which vests in
the nation a country hitherto governed
as the private domain Of the reigning
monarch and his house. The South
locks upon the national settlement done
at Marking as the fundamental bul.
wark against the recurrence Of ancient
wrongs and laehes; and, rightly CT
WI ongly, il is n living fear there in
the regions on and beyond the Yangtss.
kiaDg that, IL the Republic and the
great human things and aspirations
denoted by the idea disappear and pass
into the night haunted by the ghosts
of the past, the force and power Of hab-
IT, custom, tradition and the other
agencies Of national environment will
drive us to the reestablishment of a
system not unlike in essentials to the
regime that was shattered in 1911.
Object TO Forcible Seizure
"The question of expediency has
also eentered itself about the personal
ity Of the new monarch. No Chinese
that is not a slave In spirit would care
to see his country ruled by an alien;
and II there Is to be monarchical
restoration in China, it can hardly be
doubted that the President would be
entitled to the scepter. But Il is
equally matter Of no little certainty
that such a scepter would be but o
bauble IL il passed into the hands Of
the President in circumstances that
might be interpreted by the nations in
the sense of a seizure. Unless regality
is the free offering of the people, no
monarchieal system in China would out
last either the life of a monarch OF his
control Of the military forces of the
country. There are not a few who
believing that the facts of national
destiny demand a monaTchical restora
tion in this cOuntry-fear that, il such
a restoration is effected as a result of
the movement initiated by the promot-
ers of the Society for Peace, there will
90 abroad among the nations this idea
of q foreible seizure of the scepter.
''Bnt these views of .expediency, rele-
want and pow erful as they are in any
discussion of the question, are in a
sense theoretical as well as specula-
tive; and for this reason they may pass
undecided when set off against the I'M
doubted ability of the chang chuns
(governors) to maintain order in the
provinces In the event Of monarchical
restoration. A consideration, however,
that is not mt all idle and speculative
is the attitude Of Japan. While the
other great Powers may be more or less
indifferent to the Transformation of
China from republic TO q monarchy
although the United States may not be
very easy to plaeate-there is every
reason To believe and tOranticipate that
no such indifference will characterize
the attitude of Japan"
The article then brings up the per
mahent Chinese dread that Japan will
seize any opportunity or situation here
to promote her authority, and that an
otheH revolution would be welcomed by
her.
Monarchy Plans Receive Check
Plans for the restoration of the
monarchy received another check in the
destruction of the plant of the Asiatic
Daily News at Shanghai by dynamiters
The paper was the avOwed organ of the
Society for the Preservation of Peace
which is leading the mOnarehial move
ment, and had just been established
An editor who left Picking to work on
the new paper never arrived at Shang
hal. He is supposed to have been
threatened, and the general opinion IL
that he went to Japan in search Of
more peaceful employment than work
on a paper interested in a movement
so thoroughly distasteful to Shanghai
| refoTmers,
Peking has also had recent sensa
tiOn In newspaper circles. The Tien
Min POa, paper which has been OPP
posing the Society for the Preserva-
ton of Peace and the mOnarchial gov
eminent, suddenly ceased publication
and its editor issued a circular saying
the police interfered with his paper be
cause Of his opposition to a plan known
to be supported by the government.
/ In discussion Of this action on the
part of police authorities the Picking
Daily Gazette says: "The inevitable
result of any such policy will be lament.
able acts of violence on the part of the
pOpulace, mainly of the character of
the bomb outrage reported from Shang,
hal"
| Statements and counter ST. ten mt
| on the part of persons connected with
the government aud the Society for the
Preservation of Peace are 30 humorous
il is difficult to determine the exact
status of the monarchial movement
without actually denouneing the
movement many high officials are en-
deavoring to give. the impression that
they do not favor 1t, initiating the ex
ample set by President Yuan Shih kai
The President's oldest son, Yuan Ko
ting, issued an authorized interview in
which he says: ..
Presidents Son Leaves Picking
/ ~ have not yet regained my original
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