The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-08-24
NO MORE CHINESE EM1aRAN1s.

The Senate has passed the Chinese prohi
bition bill, and it has gone to the President
for bis signature. This is just - right ~
the bill to the same effect a few years age
was wrong. Then We had . treaty with
China extending to subjects of that empire
the same rights of entry to America as en-
joyed by the subjects Of other nations. An
attempt was male while that treaty existed
to pass an act of Congress nullifying that
privilege, Without the consent Of the Chinese
government. A treaty is the highest form Of
law known to nations. The enactment Of
the law at that time would have been . VIC.
lation of the treaty, and the United States
would have been taking advantage of An
inferior power, with whom it had sought
treaty obligations q few years before, to
abrogate the agreement without consulting
Its wishes. 1t was against this Congress
man Benjamin Harrison voted, and be voted
right. Since that another treaty has been
negotiated with China, to which the Chinese
government gave consent, and this bill is an
incident of it, providing that no Chinanan,
whether q subject of China or any other
power, shall enter the United States, except
Chinese officials, students, teachers, mer-
chants, and travellers for pleasure or curl
osity, and these must obtain the consent Of
the Chinese government, or of the govern
ment Of which they are then subjects, and
their identity be then certified by the United
C. meN0 sa~~aaA~kA iwn Thfa vu$1y and RhA
importation of Chinese laborers. The treaty
was signed March 18th, 1883, but it required
the present act to render it operative. The
exchange of the Publications of the treaty, q
merely formal proceeding, has yet to be
made, when the treaty and restriction act
will be in full force. "~"~
This, we believe, marks q new era in The
policy Of the United ties, which has here
tofore extended q welcome to the oppressed
of all lands to find shelter, protection and
homes In this great Republic. The propo-
sition to limit this invitation was started on
the Pacific Coast and it has takeH many
years of education as to the facts to bring
the people of the East to q realization that
the immigration Of Chinese was . mistake.
They do not have any sympathy with Amer
lean institutions; do not assimilate with the
people; do not make homes here,
and if they happen to remain until they die
have q contract to even have their bones
taken back to China. They come as con-
laborers, earn what they can in 9 few
years at wages that drive out free labor, and
return to the land of Confucius. They do
not leave China on account of oppression or
With aspirations for human freedom, but to
acquire money, hoard 1t, and return. They
'eally accept a condition of slavery to &C. /
that purpose. By accepting low
wages they crowd out of employment At
,etter rates those who a-e or might become
,ood citizens. Therefore it is we'll they
'hould be excluded. But, if this is true Of
Chinese, why is not the same principle ap-
lied to the contract Hungarians, Italians
md their class, who are now imported to
he Atlantic coast as the Chinese were to the
'aci6c? The purpose has been we'll begun;
t should not cease until other importations
like char acter are %estopped.