Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-03

an entirely voluntary migration" by both the
high contracting parties, and in reciprocal OBJ
legations whereby we secure the solemn and
unqualified engagement on the part Of the gov
ernment OF China, to pass laws making it a
penal offense for citizens of the United States,
OF Chinese subjects. to take Chinese subjects to
the United States or to any other foreign coun-
try, without their free and voluntary consent,
constitutes the great force and value of this
article. Its Importance, both in principle and
IN its practical service towards our protection
against servile importation in the guise of inn
migration, cannot be Overestimated. 1t COM
mands the Chinese government to take active
and efficient measures to suppress this iniqui-
tous system where those measures are most
necessary and can be most effectual.
Therefore. if the fifth article falls short of
what the pressure of the later experience of
our Pacific States may urge upon the attention
of this government rs essential to the public
welfare it seems to be in therght direction, and
to contain important advantages which. once
relinquished, cannot! easily be recovered.
The second topic which interested the gov
ment under tho actual conditions of things
which prompted the Burlingame treaty, was
adequate protection, under solemn and definite
guarantees of the treaty, of the Chinese
already in this country and those who shall
seek our shores. This was the object and
forms the subject of the sixth article by whose
reciprocal engagement the citizens and sub
jects of two governments, respectively, visit
ing or residing in the country of the other, are
emptions there enjoyed by the citizens or SUBJ
jects of the most favored nation.
The treaty of 1858, to which these articles
are made supplemental, provides for q great
amount of privilege and protection, both of
person and property, of American citizens in
China, but upon the sixth article that main
body of the treaty rights and securities of the
Chinese already in this country depends. Its
abrogation, were the rest of the treaty left in
force, would leave them to such treatment as
we shall voluntarily accord them by our laws
and customs. Any treaty obligation would be
wanting to restrain our liberty of action to-
wards them, or to- measure or sustain the right
OF the Chinese government to redress in their
behalf.
The lapse of ten yesrs since the negotiation
of the Burlingane treaty has exhibited to the
notice of the Chinese government, as well as to
our own people, the working of this expert
ment, of the Immigration in great numbers of
Chinese laborers to this country, and their
maintenance here of all the traits of the race,
religion. manners and customs, habitatlon,
mode of life, segregation here and the keeping
up of the ties of their original home, which
stamp them as strangers and sojeuners, and
not as incorporated elements of our national
life and growth. This experience may natur-
ally suggest reconsideration of the subject as
dealt with by The Burlingame treaty and may
properly become the occasion.
more direct and circumspect recognition
in renewed negotiations Of the difficulties sur
rounding this political and social problem may
well suggest themselves to the Chinese govern
ment no less than our own. The simple pro-
visions of the Buringame treaty may need be
replaced in more careful methods securing the
Chinese and ourselves against larger and more
rapid infusion of this foreign race than our sys-
tenn of industry and society can take up and
assimilate with ease and safety.
This ancient government ruling polite and
sensitive people, distinguished by high sense
of natural pride, may properly desire adjust
ment of their relations with us which would in
all things conform and in no degree endanger
permanent peace and amity, and the growing
commerce and prosperity which it has been the
object and effect of our existing treaties, to
cherish and perpetuate.
denunciation of treaty by any govern
ment is confessedly justi6able only on some
reason, both of the highest Justice and of the
highest necessity. The action of Congress in
the matter of the French treaties in 1898, if it
be regarded rs an abrogation by this nation of
the subsisting treaty, STRANGELY illustrates the
character and degree of the justification which
was then thought suitable to such proceedings.
The preamble Of the act recites that the treat
les concluded between the United States and
France have been repeatedly violated on the
part of the French government and just claims
of the United States for reparation of injuries
tempts to neeotiate an amicahIe adin.tmcnt of
ali comnIaints hetueen the two nat;ons ho, "a
been repealed with indignity, and that under
authority of the French government there Is
yet pursued against the United States sys-
TEN of predatory violence, infraeting said
treaties and hostile to the rights of free and
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