The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-05
MONARCHY PLAN j. !.
SUBMITTED TOVOTE
Chinese People Will Decide
Whether Republic win Give I.
Place To a Kingdom
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tAssociated Press by Federal wirelsss.)
PEklNG, October 5.-The state
council yesterday passed resolutions
governing the election of members of
a peoples conference to decide whether
China shall become a monarchy or
maintain the republican form of gov.
ernment. The primaries will be held
on November 5 and the final election
Of November Is. Should the elected
members favor monarchy, a new con-
stItution will be considered.
Although President Yuan Shih -kai has
denied that he desires to be emperor,
and several Of his prominent support
ers have authorized the statement that
the President would decline the impe-
rial title if it were offered to him,
China is still stirred by the extent to
which the monarchial movement has
gaipe1 headway. 49,.
IT,. manifesto published on August
10 by the 56cFet "a o. 81 Peace,S adyoS
eating the fest6rati6nNaf the monarchy,
and signed by Yang Tu, head of the
HaDkow Development Plan, and other
prominent supporters Of Yuan Shlh-kai,
is generally regarded by Chinese Of all
parties as feeler thrown out to de-
termine how the public would accept
the idea of an emperor. In some high
quarters, both Chinese and foreign, it
is believed that if no revolution or
danger of revolution develops, Yuan
Shih-kai will worship heaven as the
emperor of China before another year.
Quiet Campaign Conducted
For months previous to the appear
ance of the above mentioned manifesto
there had been a quiet campaign CON
Quoted in Peking and other cities for
the establishment of a monarchy. The
manifesto itself, as translated from the
Chinese by the Peking Gazette, refers
to the absolute necessity of Chinese
patriots preventing the outbreak of in
ternal struggles that might invite for
eign Intervention and points to the
situation that developed in a number
of other countries before a republican
form of government began to succeed.
The manifesto says in part:
Mexico's Example
"ln such countries as Argentine,
Peru, Chile and other Republics in
South and Central America, party feuds
have been the order of the day, and
such quarrels, frequently eliminated in
civil war. In Portugal the recent
change of government from monarchy
to Republic has been Immediately
followed by deadly internecine strife,
and the worse case of all is in Mexico.
Since the abdication of Diaz, that coun-
try has been seething with civil strife
till the present day. Their party lead,
ers have struggled for supremacy with
one another with military forces. When
they win they occupy the land and when
they are defeated they never scruple
to commit looting, incendiarsm, and
massacre. Finally the whole nation is
! divided into five camps with as many
Presidents, and the country is prac-
tically in a state of anarchy. AS we
are newly established Republic, we
| should take Mexico as our object les
son.
"The United States of America is
the senior Republic of the world and
her great student of politics, DOcto
GOOdnOw, has stated that n monarchy
is better form of government than
Republicanism, and according to his
opinion, a monarchial form of govern
ment is most Indispensable at pTese mt
| for China. This view has been shared
by mot few notable scholars of other
r0nntries. AS Doctor GO0dnOw is a
citizen of a Republic, he is more
competent to make such a statement
than others. His words are, the con
ditiOns are different in China and Am
erica and it Is impossible to trans
plant one system from one country to
another If foreigners who are in
sympathy with China have so openly
and loudly laid before us their unpre
iudiced view. can we people of China
! leave everything to fate, raising not a
hand to find fundamental solution
for this important problem' Where il
YOUR nNtriotisml Where is your duty
as a citizen to the country, If yOu, foI
fear of adverse criticism or Other
dangers, remain silent an indecisive,