Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-07
Chinese GENERAL
NOT ANARCHIST
NOTED CASE ENDS
Continued RON page one)

! by Inspector Brown. He engaged At
! torney Robert ". Breckons as his
counsel and for the next two months
/ frequent hearings were held at the
! immigration station. From the first
| the defendant admitted the speeches
and writings in question, but declared
! he did not counsel the killing Oi
Yuan as personal matter but as d
political expression in connection with
his belief that the Yuan government
was reacticnary and should be over
thrown to make way for more pro-
gressive principles of the Chinese re-
public
On several occasions letters and in
terviews from Gen Wudan which had
been published in the Star-Bulletin
figured in the hearings, these being
cited TO show that he was an anar
chist by his own utterances. But on
this and the other points the conteu-
tiop of the immigration authorities
has now been refuted by the ruling
in Washington.
Case Goes to Washington.
The findings of the special board Of
inquiry were sent to Washington for
consideration by the department of la
bor Wudan's attorney, Mr.. Brock
ons, then filed with the department
notable brief in which he reviewed
the history of the legislation dealing
with anarchists and anarchistic &C
tons Attorney Breckons referred to
the message to Congress of eX-Presi-
dent Roosevelt in which he referred
to the assassination of Mckinley by
CZolgosZ, contending from this, from
subsequent legislation, from congress-
sional debates and from rulings of the
bureau of immigration that anarchists
are those who believe in chaos and
assassinat ton Of officials merely be.
cause they are officials"
Wudan's utterances and writings
we're discussed comprehensively tIl
show that he is not an anarchist i'll
any accepted sense of the word; that
he was merely discussing matters as
a political opponent of those whom he
condemned and es a patriotic Chinese
citizen. -r
Cites American History.
Attorney Breckons closed his brief
with these words:
"In conclusion, Mr.. Commissioner,
it is respectfully submitted that, if on
this record it should be held that Gen.
Wudan should be deported there would
be established q rule the principles of
which would be contrary to the very
foundation of our own form of gov
eminent. If Wudan be an
anarchist, under this record, then SO
was George Washington, and so was
Samuel Adams and so was Benjamin
Franklin, and so were every one of
a host of others. of glorious memory.
If, by reason of this record. Wudan
is 'undesirable'-a person whose
teachings maytend to turn us from
the paths we have for century and
a half trodden stewards an ideal form
of government then might we well
have turned from our shores LaFay-
ettn. and disciples of Emmett and |
Garibaldi and -Kossuth and William
Tell In glowing terms-in poetry as |
we'll as in prose, has been written the |
histories of heroes who taught doc |
trines much more 'anarchistic' than
those of Wudan; histories held up as
examples OF pure patriotism to the
school children, of the United States
today. Songs have been composed
and monuments have been erected to-
the memory of such men as we have
mentioned. .~ i
shall the Commissioner of Immi-
grafton, in this day of advancement,
say that Wudan is an anarchist? Wei
respectfully submit that the answer
should be in the negative. /
Brand his expressions as anar-
chistic, blue pencil them for the pur-
pose of preventing their publication,
label them as seditious and infiamma-
tory and not proper for the ears of
liberty loving America, and you have
put the seal of disapproval upon
the immortal speech of Patrick Henry,
upon the impassioned utterances of
Robert Emmett, upon the burning i
phrases OF a group of heroes the very
names of whom are inseparably
coupled with the progress of human
liberty. He has, indeed, not expressed |
the ideas with the force, and the elo-l
duerice and the fire and the magnet-j
ism of the characters to whom refer
ence is made, but the same spirit is
same desire, not for an
prchy, not for chaos, not for indlscrlR'.
mate assassination Of persons in pow
err because they are in power, but for
the establishment of a government
which shall do justice to all, gov
eminent which shall protect the
rights of all, a government which