FOREWORD
tion of Sun Yat Sen's program to establish a republic in China, made the author a partisan of Sun Yat Sen. If this torture-racked and body-broken untutored cook still had the courage to stand out for the ideals of his great leader, was it not the democratic duty of an American, in enjoyment of great privileges, to sympathize at all ovents, in some helpful way, with this liberty-loving effort of the Dare-to-Dies? So the author's heart warmed to Sun Yat Sen's movement, although, because of his judicial position, he held aloof from any direct participation. After his resignation as judge, however, the author became somewhat active in Dr. Sun's support, and, in 1913, he wrote a book, "Our Chinese Chances," which, in 1914, was circulated rather widely by Dr. Sun's party (the Kuo Ming Tong), with the purpose of defeating a loan sought by Yuan Shih Kai. In 1917, the author became the editor-in-chief of a monthly magazine, "The Chinese Nationalist." He also performed other propaganda work for the Kuo Ming Tong, supplementing this press work by the practice of his profession as a lawyer in their behalf, not only in China but in America and other jurisdictions as well.
For years the author had lamented frequently the lack of biographical information concerning
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