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THE WORK OF COLONEL STEESE
While discussing Alaska’s assets,
let’s not forget Col. Steese. By spend
ing four months in Washington, lie
succeeded in getting a proposed ap
propriation of $500,000 for Alaska
roads increased to $900,000 and he got
$500,000 appropriated for Wrangell
Narrows. This was at the rate of
$225,000 a month—and it does not take
into account $40,000 for the Nome har
bor and other smaller items.
It would be difficult to measure the
obligations Alaska is under to this in
defitigable official. Col. Steese has all
but worked miracles in the way he
has impressed Congress with a sense
of the Nation’s duty to contribute to
Alaskan development. He has gotten
larger appropriations for the Terri
tory than ever were made before, not
withstanding the determination of the
President and leaders in Congress to
decrease the Government's expenses
that tax reductions might follow.
Of course the Government has not
done more than its duty to Alaska. The
Nation is the largest property owner
in the Territory. Federal policies
have prevented the appropriation and
development of natural resources by
private individuals. The Government
has thereby closed the door to poten
tial territorial income from taxes, ac
quiring a normal obligation to make
liberal contributions to aid develop
ment.
However, we have not always been
successful in bringing appreciation of
this obligation home to Congress and
the Departments. Col. Steese has
done so. The results from his work
speak for themselves. They oblige
the Territory to him to an almost in
calculable extent. He is a very val
uable and useful citizen—Juneau Em
pire.
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PRESIDENT SUN
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PASSES AWAY
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ers became so powerful that they op
enly defied the Peking government
which became a mockery.
Meanwhile, it had become impossi
ble for Dr. Sun to remain in China.
He made a sensational escape to
Japan—he had done the same thing
several times before—and settled
down to gather together the threads
of his lost cause and await patient
ly the time when he would again
be ready 'o act in the interest of
»he republic.
This opportunity eluded him until
the late summer of 1921, when the
Chinese Parliament, sitting at Can
ton, unanimously elected him Pres
ident of the Chinese Republic. The
election had been forecast the pre
ceding February, when ■announcement
was made that a newly established
‘'extraordinary” government at Can
j ton had sent agents to many foreign
capitals to seek recognition for the
I regime.
War-Lords Anxious.
The months that followed were
troubled ones for Dr. Sun. He
found that many of the war-lords
were not anxious to delinquish their
I powers, even in favor of the repub
lic they were supposed to be fighting
for. After many attempts to bind Hie
mass of loose and broken ends, the
new president began to realize that
his unification schemes were not
bearing fruit, and that his political
influence was pitted in no small de
gree against that of General Chen
Chiung-min, who was appointed the
Southern Ciceroy by the Peking gov
ernment early in 1922, despite the
fact that he was known to be on
friendly terms with the Southern
president at the time.
Continued To Fight.
; The final break between these two
i leaders came in May 1922, where
upon the armies ot Chen Chiung-min
became another serious obstacle in
i the path of Dr. Sun. Defeat, deser
tion, treachery faced the latter at
every hand. Although he continued
to fight for several weeks, he could
not muster sufficient strength to op
pose with success the constantly
rising tide of Chen, who finally broke
down what little resistance was of
fered at Canton and forced Sun to
flee the city.
From Shanghai, where Dr. Sun
sought asylum, he continued his rev
olutionary tactics with the idea first
of regaining the seat of his former
government at Canton and eventu
ally seeking to control all China.
Early in 1923 the troops of Dr.
Sun, reinforced by those of other
revolutionary leaders, succeeded in
; entering Canton and in time the de
posed president of the Southern Re
public returned to the city. For
! several months there was almost
; continuous fighting in the city and
! the territory adjacent to it and in
i March the greater ambition of Dr.
I Sun was inaugurated when his fol
| lowers engaged troops that were
I supporting the central government
at Peking.
Dr. Sun insisted all the time that
' his efforts were in behalf of a unit
| ed China and blamed the powers for
the plight of the country. “The
powers,” he said, “want to stop the
revolution. The Chinese people be
lieve, in spite of them, that the rev
; olution will succeed and that China
| then will be a united and peaceful
nation.”
Carrying on his campaign through
| out the year consumed funds faster
than they were being accumulated
by the revolutionary leader. In Oc
tober he created a tense situation at
Canton by threatening to seize the
| customs. “We must stop this money
I going to Peking to buy arms to kill
! us,” he declared.
Allies Fake Action.
Dr. Sun’s threat quickly brought
; to Canton harbor a flotilla of for
j eign gunboats, including American,
l British, French and Portuguese ( ves
! sels, to, prevent the seizue of the
Chinese maritime customs. For the
protection of foreign bondholders.
China in 1911, agreed that an inspec
tor general of customs selected b>
the powers should supervise the col
lection of these customs, the amount
for the foreign loan service first be
|ing deducted and the remainder turn
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ed over to the Chinese government.
The situation was relieved by the
intervention of Jacob G. Schurman,
I American minister to China, with
! the result that the revolutionary
! leader withdrew his threat.
! An effort then was made by Dr.
Sun to bring about a conference of
all the warring factions. He sug
gested that America initiate the
move as the United States, he said,
was the only power the Chinese
people regarded without suspicion.
Dr. Sun’s health began to fail dur
ing 1921 and on several occasions
his death was reported. In Novem
ber Peking was captured by revolu
tionary forces under General Feng
and when the defeated General Wu
abandoned his plan to recapture the
city Tsao Kun resigned the presi
dency. A de facto government was
formed with Tuan Chi-Jui as chief of
executive power. Fighting had ceas
ed and a general conference was
called at Peking of the various politi
cal leaders.
Did Not Want Power
Dr. Sun, invited to this conference
issued a pamphlet upon his arrival
in Peking, declaring that he did not
want political power and calling up
on the people “to save the country.”
j He likened the Chinese people to
the status of colonists in foreign
countries. “Thirteen years ago,” he
said in his pamphlet, “ 'I turned the
Manchus out and gave freedom to the
people, but the Manchus had sold that
freedom to the powers by the enact
ment of unequal treaties.’ ”
In dealing with the career of Sun
Yat Sen, it is essential to note that
practically all ,of his best work in
the overthrow of the Manchu Emper
ors and the various revolutions which
followed was done when he was thou
sands of. miles from the shores of
China.
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to ■which he was a stranger. Wher
ever there were Chinese he had
been, always with the same mission,
the same appeal—a Chinese Repub
lic. A small, quiet, stoop-shoulder-*
ed man, with a thin grayish mus
j tache pointing upward at the ends,
I Dr. Sun moved about the world hold
| ing his life in his hands every mo
| ment of the day and night, for it
! would have been worth $200,000 to
1 any one who could plant a knife be
tween his shoulders. This reward,
offered originally by the Manchu
government, was standing for nearly
twenty years. While in New York
during 1911, Dr. Sun was dining in a
prominent club with a number of in
ternational bankers. They were in
clined to minimize the accounts of
his constant danger, whereupon Sun
asked that they accompany him to
one of the upper rooms, fronting on
Fifth avenue. There, standing in
the dark, they were able to look out
upon the street and distinguish three
evil-looking Chinese skulking in the
1 shadows. When Sun left they disap
peared.
Perhaps his narrowist ^escape was
in Canton in 1895. One of his plots
to assassinate the Manchu officials
and seize the city was betrayed and
a round-up of the leaders was set in
motion. Dr. Sun fled with a band
of hostile soldiers at his heels. Sud
denly a door opened and he was
drawn inside. The door closed as
I mysteriously as it had opened, an
| the pursuers passed on. A friendly
l servant in the house of a prominen'
i Mandarin had made the rescu
Three days later the fugitive watch
ed from a window of that sonn
house as 15 of his followers wen
put to death with all the refinement
of torture in which the Chinese ex
cell.
Another time, while in London, h
was kidnapped and held prisoner
in the Chinese Embassy. Whil*
awaiting a special steamer which was
to take him to Peking and death by
the axe, he managed to get word
to his friends on the outside. High
officials of the British governmen*
obtained Ids release.
He has made his way through
China in every known form of dis
guise, and by every conceivable me
thod of transportation. As a coolie
laborer, a Mandarin, a fisherman, a
jinrikisha runner, a soldier, a sailoi.
j and a student, he has flitted abom
! the great Chinese nation, always
1 hunted and hounded, even when he
occupied the high office of Pres
ident.
Dr. Sun, although few of his as
| sociates knew it, was a Christian
He was born in Honolulu in 1862
and received his medical education
in Hong Kong College. He was
married quite early in life and wa>
j and a daughter.
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