The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-09


nenta! lines of railway, all in success
ful operation, wholly within our terri
t )ryand uniting the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, has been accompanied by re-
suits OF most interesting and i'm
pressive nature, and has created new
conditions, not In the routes of COM
merce only, but in political geography.
which powerfully affect our relations
toward, and necessarily increase our
interests In, any trans-ISthmian route
which may be opened and EMPLOYED
for the ends OF peace and traffic, or, in
other contingencies, for use
inimical to both. Trans
portation is factor in the hosts
of commodities consumed scarcely
second to that of their production, and
weighs as heavily upon the consumer.
Our existence already has proven the
great Importance of having the COM
petition between land carriage and
water carriage fully developed, each
acting as protection 10 the public
against the tendency OF monopoly
which is Inherent in the consolidation
of wealth and power in the hands of
vast corporations. These suggestions
may serve TO emphasize what | have
already said on the score of the neceS-
Sity of naturalization of any inter-
oceanic transit, and this can only be
accomplished by making the uses of
the route open to all natisnS, and sub
ject to the ambition and
war-like necessities of none.
The drawings and report of a recent
survey OF the Nicaragua Canal route
made by Chief Engineer Menocal will
be communicated tor your informa-
ton.
The claims of citizens of the United
States for losses by reason of the late
military operations of Chill in Peru
and Bolivia are the subject of nego-
tiation for a claims convention with
Chill, providing for their submission
to arbitration.
CHINA AND THE CHINESE QUESTION.
The harmony of our relations with
China is fully sustained in The applica-
ton OF the acts lately passed 20 exc
cute the treaty of 1880, restrictive of
the immigration of Chinese laborerS
into the United States. Individual
cases of hardship have occurred be-
yond the power of the Executive to
remedy, and calling for judicial deter
mination.
The condition of the Chinese ques-
ton in the Western States and Terri
tories is, despite this restrictive
legislation, far from beng satisfactory.
The recent outbreak in Wyoming Ter
ritory, where numbers of unoffending
Cinnamon, indisputably within the
protection of the treaties and the law,
were murdered by a mob, and the still
more recent threatened outbreak OF
the same character in Washington
Territory, are still fresh in the minds
of all. And there is apprehension lest
the bitterness of feeling against the
Monaghan race on the Pacific Slope may
find vent in similar laWlesS demonStra-
ton. All the power of this governments
should be eXerted TO maintain the
amplest good faith toward China in the
treatment of these men, and the in
flexible sternness of the law in bring
ing the Wrong-doers to justice, should
be insisted upon. Every effort has
been made by this government to pre-
vent these violent outbreaks and to aid
the representatives of China in their
inveStlvatiOn of these outrageS, and it
is but Just 10 say that they are trace
able to the laWleSSneSS of men not
citizens of the United States, engaged
in competition with Chinese labOrerS.
Race prejudice is the chief factor in
originating these disturbances and it
eXiStsin a large part of our domain,
jeopardizing our peace and the good
relationship we try to maintain with
China. The 0dmitted right of gov
ernment TO prevent the influx of ele-
ments hostile to Its internal peace and
security may not be questioned, even
where there is no treaty stipulation on
the subject. That the exclusion OF
Chinese labor is demanded in other
countries where like conditions pre-
vail, is strongly evidenced in the
Dominion of Canada where Chinese
immigration is now regulated by laws
more exclusive than our own.
If existing laws are inadequate to COM
pass the end in view | shall be prepar-
ed to give such earnest consideration
to further remedial measures wishiE
the treaty limits, as the wisdom OF
Congress may devise.
THE CONGO COUNTRY.
The independents state of the Congo
has been organized as a government
under the sovereignty Of His Majesty,
the King of the Belgians, who assumes
its chief magistracy in his personal
character only, without making the
new state a dependency on Belgium.
1t is fortunate that benighted region,
owing all it has of qulckening civlllza-
ton 10 the benifcence OF the plllan-
thrOpic spirit OF this monarch should
have the advantage and security OF his
supervision.
The action taken by this government
last year in being the first TO recognize
the flag of the international Assocla-
ton of the Congo has been followed by
formal recognition of the new nation
ality. which succeeds TO its sovereign
mowers. A conference of delegates OF
the principal commercial nations was
held at Berlin last winter to discuss
methods whereby the Congo basin
might De kept open to the world,s
trade. Delegates attended on DenaiI
of the United State ,on the understand
ing that their part should be merely
deliberative without Importing 20 the
results any binding character, SO lar as
the United States were Concerned.
This reserve was due 70 the lndlS-
of this government 10 snare
i'm any disposal, by an International
Congress, of jurisdiotional questions
i'm relation TO the state OF foreign ter
ritories. The results of the conference
we're embodied III 3 formal act OF the
an international convention
which laid down certain Obligations
to be binding on the sign
ers. subject to ratification within one
wear. notwithstanding the reservation
under which the delegates OF tne Uni