The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-02-03
SUN VAT SEN.

NA4 eAAVOO 1'eSAAOA SSAAA4N u0yo WAOA GA
the world Is whirling about Wash
lngton and the Disarmament Confer.
ence, and now that France seems to
be setteled, the center of disturbance
appears in the Chino-Japanese dis
agreeings, the name Of Sun Vat Sen
looms threateningly for the Chinese.
He was the very first president of
the Republic of China when that
mighty monarchy twisted itself loose
from the hands loft the mastsrful
Manchus that had ruled the Mongo-
lian millions for all the years OF hu-
Mutations the Chinese endured un-
der those northern usurpers since
1144, or the times Of Cromwell in
England, down to 1908.
To be sure Sun Vat Sen was only
a provisional president; Yuan Shin
hRa almost at once succeeding him
as president de factO. The tragedy
of Yuan's reign was that soon as he
could do so he yielded to the impor-
tunities Of them who did not want
a revulsion from the monarchy and
attempted to reinstate it. just then
he died by his own hand or other
wise; but the Republic remained.
Not long after this there arose
some uneasy people in the Canton
country and with Hong Kong lead
ers they conspired against THE Re-
public and formed a new republican
form of government south OF the
Yang Use river. With this "Son Of
the Ocean" as the boundary between
the new and the factual organiza-
tions bf governments, they of the
north were compelled to inaugurate
war movements while the southern
ers, the rebels in fact, threw armies
into the field.
One of the arch conspirators col
laborating with Sun Vat Sen is DR..
WI Ting Fang, once China's repre-
sentative in Washington. He is
strong as a schemer as also is his
chief confederate, Sun.
Once in Shanghai, I had the OPP
portunity of being entertained al
tiffin, an AFTERNOON tiffin, in 1.-THE
home of Suns wife Il should say
his Shanghai wife, for he has sew
eraD; she was not present, but his
siS.er-in-law, Miss Zoong, did the
honors of the occasion. Both she
and Mrs. Sun are American trained
ladies, and use the English excel
lently. The home is palace Of true
oriental splendor, gorgeous almos
no the barbaric. The approach il
by the usual mailed gate of THE Gus
tomary compound wall orname nItet
with the stone dogs that keep ava.
the evil spirits that would dare mo
lest 1.-THE inmates. Folding door
open on tesseBed pavements leading
to the immense Railways so com
mon in these near-tropioal dwell
ings.
Entering one finds a prodigalit,
of colors, tapestry and silk pictures
representing sometimes years 0
s'eady application On The part CT tn
r" tent but accurate men WHO d
this needlework, pa ;ng the pow e
90 his occidental to portray. Cor
geou5 canopies beclou1 the Won
dering visitor, while hidden slave
wait the hand-clap of the mistres:
When the clapping of the hands
heard there darts from some unex
pected recess an obseluious servan
clasping his hands and bowling To-
to know his mistress's wishes. S
lently. as he came he disappears Int
the somewhere that looks like NJ
where to the visitor to such scene
unaccuStomed. The LADY In tn
case was dressed la American
and had the unique appearance Of
swarthy oriental in occidental Dire.
YET in her native setting. So ii. wal
American exotic In Chinese ga
den. This effect was truly piG u