The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-06


 Home Rule in Taxation League, held in San Francisco. Dec. 22, 1915, Sun Flo, whose father, Sun Yat Sen, has fought for twenty years for the lib erty{ of the. Chinese people, and be- came the first president upon the or ganfza ton of the Chinese Republic in 1912, delivered address the Monarchistic Usurpation in China. MT Sun Flo is a senior student in the Uni versity of California; and has lived in this country nearly four years. He covered his subject quite fully say. ing:
 Recent reports of the Chinese sit Uatien may cause persons unfamil-- far with events in that country to con- c1ude that the Chinese people is un- fitted for republics that, after four years trial. monarchy is better for them; and that the decision for a change, as given out by the Pekin gov sernment, is unanimous on the part of the people. Nothing is further from the truth. The Republic, under the control of Yuan Shi Kai, never had a fair trial The p1onarchist. usurpa- ton reflects the ambition and auto cratic will of one man The Chinese people has nothing to do with it.
 During the Revolution of 1912, Yuan Shi Kai agreed with the Re- pubHcanss to persuade the Manchu House to abdicate, and to unify the Republic. He was made the second Provisional President and soon be- gan to betray his trust by unconstitu- tlorla.1z acts The struggle between democracy and Sautocracy began about a year later, when Sung Chiao Jen ex-Minister of Agriculture and Pores try and leader of the majority party in Parliament, was assassinated in Shanghai. The crime was traced to Picking, Sand laid at the door of. Chao Ping Chun, thesPremier of Yuan Sn1 Kai.
 Shortly after, Yuan def1ed Parlia- ment by signing the Five-Power loan of $125, 100000 without it's sanction. From that time, it was unable to re- strain him. Thus supplied with am pie funds, Yuan gained control of Par iament, by bribiug some of the mem .bers. A new party was formed by Yuan, known asa the Chinputang, or Progressive Party, which opposed the ,Kuomintang or Nationa1ist-ma joritys Party. As a result, only one bill passed Parliament in four months. This was just what Yuan had plan ned, so as to discredit Parliament, and have an excuse to assume autocratic powers.
 After the Revolution in 1913, Yuan accused Parliament of attempting to overthrow him. and issued an Illegal order expelling s31O Kuom1ntang p1em-s bers. On January II, 1914, Yuan formally abolished the Parliament
 
 he had forced it's members to elect him as the regular president. On the same day that he abolished ParHa-= ment, all of the provincial or State legislatures, district and municipal councils were ordered to be abolished. With a. stroke of the Usurperfs pen, all of the elective bodies of the Republic were destroyed. Since January 1914, the Chinese Republic has been forced to submit to dictatorship; Yuan be- ing the Dictator.
 '< uan was elected President iOcto- Der 5, 1913, for a term of five years, being eligible for a second terna- Af-F ter he abolished Parliament, he pro- mqIgated an illegal constitution on May 1, 1914. A Council of State was then appointed by him, and empoW- cred to act as the Legislature. He had the presidential election laws changed by that Council. extending his term of office to ten years, with no Irritation as to reelection.
 efYuan's permanently of office was further secured by providing that in the year of the presidential election, if the Council of State deems it a polite cal necessity, that body. appointed by him, can prolong the Presidents term of office to another ten years, without the electoral college acting, thus enz abIing Yuan to be- President for life; and that the retiring President shall