Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-11-22
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la your leader Of the 2Jgh instan, vou
speak Of the sa21s4tion of Jadss Fi-Id
toucbin2 Chinese IN the United State
Hs intima;es that the treaty vIta China
might be modified so that ouly tho-e
engaged IN Commerce should hereafter
oe aliJ~ed to enter aud make perma-
nent ABIDE, and that they should De re-
ssric,sd 10 few Of our seaport cities.
and test like restrictions should apply
TO Americans In China. Tue suggestion
10 veil worthy consideration.
Congress will soon taeet and ve shouId
at once by petition REPRESENT the ne
cessisy for = modification Of the treaty.
Hereafter No return Certificates should
De granted TO Cain Sc laborers, and 10
no event should such Chinameu he al
lowed hereafter to enter the Uaited
states. Chinese merchants in the Uzited
States should only be allowed to deal in
tne productions and commodities Of
China. produced and manufactured 10
Oaioa. No Chinese shoul be allowed
70 carry on manufact uring establish
msnts or factories In the Uaited Stats
fhe terms merchant" student"
traveller" and "laborer" should be
dehaed, fixed and limited. Let rs
aiso petition Congress to amend
the charters of the several railroad cor
porations created by the laws Of the
United States, so that by heavy penal
ties they be restricted IN the employ
ment of iaborers and servants, by them.
selves or by subcontractors, TO those
persons only who by the laws of the
United States are capable of becoming
citizens thereof.
The Oregon Legislature is now in
session. Oar own will soon convene.
We should petition these bodies to en-
act laws to the effect that persons in
capable by the laws of the United
states from becoming citizens thereof,
should not be allowed hereafter 10 40
quire any interest or estate in laads
greater tsan ieasehold interest for one
month, forfeiting to the Common
wealth all estates sold or leased TO suoh
incapable persons,or held in secret trust
for them for a longer period. They
should be also requested to enact laws
to the effeot that transportation, ,niI ing.
manufacturing, farming, fishing, or
commercial corporations created by
them, or carrying on busiaess within
their Territorial limits, should not em
plsy, directly or indirectly, in such
limits, as servants or iaborers. persons
incapable by the laws OF the United
states from becoming citizens thereof.
HEAVY penalties should be provided to
eRforoe such laws.
The writer believes that enactments
Of the character indicated woald be up
held and enfofcsd by the courts. Lsgis-
latiOn as TO the employment Of such
incapable persons" by the individual
citizen il not necessary, for the reason
that the Individual oitizeR will soon dis
cover that his interest will be advanced
only by the employment of persons
qualified to becone oItizsns. Iu the en-
forcement of the laws indicated. the
pt opie of the Pacific Coast would b.
practically a unit. Such legislation
would preveat Chinsmen from acqlir-
ing any further hold upon the soil,
would prevent the corporations from
employing them, individuals would
generally pursue the same course. and
by being thus lawfully hoy eotted." the
little yellow man would soon drift away
from our shores.
Will not some of our Legislators take
up the hints here thrown out, and
frame law to meet the suggestions!
fhe man VINO will do so. will pl,cs hIs
fellow Americans under lasting obliga-
tions to him. W. IL. W.