Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-30
MALR.ugARTED SUPPORT


We begin to think that the present
Secretary of State is queer sort Of per-
sonage, and possibly not the bsst fitted
man for the position Of premier who
could be selected by President Arthur
from among the sixty millions of his
fellow countrymen. His lapses and vio-
lation Of good taste and good faith to-
ward Senator Sargent, while the latter
was Minister to Berlin, are matters of
public notoriety. II is openly charged
that the ill-feellng between Bismarck
and Sargent was mainly caused by the
injudicious and unwarranted publica-
ton Of Sargent's dispatches 20 the State
Department.
Ii is now reported that Secretary
Frelinghuysen is privately working
against the passage by the Senate of the
bill amending the Chinese Restriction
Act. Il Ia stated that he recently sent
confidential communication to the
Senate Committee ON Foreign Affairs
urging that the enactment of the bill
az passed by the House will bevery
irritating 10 the Chinese Government,
and especially to the Embassy resident
at Washington"
The plain fact OF the matter is that
she original Restriction Act has never
had the cordial cooperation OF tho
Executive Department in It's enforce
ment. Its provisions have been strained
TO the utmost In favor Of the heather
and against its intended benehciaries-
the free laborers of this county. The
President vetoed the original or twenty.
year act on the suggestion Of foreign
ambassador. When the ten year act
became the Law, and the effort of Sena-
tor Logan 20 pass q supplemental act
providing for the transit Of coolies
across the United States had failed.
Attorney General Brewster stepped 10
the front With an opinion-reversing
one he had previously rendered-that
there was no prohibition against coolie
transit, upon the rendition of which
Secretary Frelinshuysen joyfuliy has
tened TO the Chinese Ambassador to
inform him of this successful method
of evadinx the intent and purport Of
the Restriction Act which the Attorney
General had 50 happily discovered.
IL the Chinese Government should
happen 20 be irritsted" by the legis-
lation Of our Government, what Of il 2
Does England stop at heathen protests
when she sees prospective benefits for
her citizens Did England ever fail TO
extort an indemnity when China allow
ed her irritation 90 manifest itself in
hostile actsf Docs the fact that Eng
fish colonies restrict and exclude coolies
strain the relations between the Empress
OF India and the Emperor of China
How much attention does France pay to
the irritation of the pig tailed monarchs
Did she stop in her demands that China
surrender snzerainsy Of Anam because
II vas annoying TO the Chinese Gov.
ernmentl Not AZ all. France enforced
her demands with her feet and soldiers
and the tricolor waves over Bacninh.
We want man 81 the head Of the
Government who viii, with the men
whom be shall select as his cabinet. en-
force the doctrine Of self preservation !
In favor of American citizena We
need man who viii not allow the cent
per cant msgnates OF trade, nor the sea-
timensalist cranks Who dominate Ger
tain portions OF this Rspahlis. 10 put
beneath the feet of heather eompeti-
ton the American iaborer. that the
purses Of the former class may be dis