File No. 893.00/596.
The Chinese Residents of Honolulu to the Secretary of State.
At mass meeting of 5,000 Chinese residents Honolulu to-night following resolution adopted unanimously by acclamation:
Whereas it appears by an Associated Press cable message from Tokyo, published in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser of October 23, 1911, that the Chinese Government has asked military aid of Japan in the suppression of the rebellion in China and that it is believed that Japan is awaiting the consent of the powers before consenting to send her armies into China; and
Whereas the rebellion in China is a national movement which aims to establish in the place of a government corrupt, effete and absolute one that will be representative of the nation; will be able and willing to perform the functions of a justly constituted government; will foster the development of the people it governs so that their aspirations to become one of the nations of the world, representing what is best in humanity, may be realized; be it
Resolved that we, Chinese residents of the city and county of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, United States of America, in mass meeting assembled on this 23d day of October, 1911, protest against any action on the part of outside powers to interfere in the struggle of the people of China to establish a form of government acceptable to them by means of which, in the case of the government of the United States itself, has been made sacred the word “rebellion,” and humbly request that the Government of the United States set an example to the other powers by assuming an attitude of strict neutrality in the matter; and be it further
Resolved that a copy of the resolutions passed at this meeting and signed by the chairman be forwarded by the secretary to his excellency Philander C. Knox, Secretary of State of the United States of America.
(Signed) Yong Kwung Tat,
Chairman Mass Meeting.