Iron County register., 1888-11-15
China ReseEtfal.


a mail steanscr recently arrived in
Sau Francisco from HING Kong brings
the intelligence that the Chinese Times
contains asignifeant artiels signed by
Pekin official charaeterizing our re-
cent legislation hostile to the Chinese
) in no friendly terms. The article was
written shortly after the news reached
the Chinese capital that our senate
ha passtd the exclusion bill.
II this obnoxious American bill
should be carried int effect says the
writer, "there will be TO other course
open for China consistent with her
dignity as a nation than to adopt
retaliatory measures by prohibiting
fh. citizens of the United States from
coming to China. This will be by no
means proportionate to the harm done
10 Chinese interests in America, but it
will have to be done in order to show
that the Chinese can do something;
and if this will have no effect in bring
ing the United States congress and the
United States government to reason and
fairness, then it will be question for
China to consider wether it is not time
for her to cancel her treaties made
with that country; To recall her subjects
from there; 10 expel all the United
States citizens from this country. and
cease all relations and intercourse, dip
lomatic and COMMERCIAL, with that
country"
OF course American politicians will
laugh at talk of retaliation from China
and make especially merry over the
threat of recalling Chinese subjects
from Americas: IT is a fact, neverthe-
less, that we have considerable inter-
ests in China. We have been making
pretty rapid progress in building up
an export trade in cotton goods to
China, and there has been fair pros
pect of supplanting England in this
trad, which means a great deal for
the immediate and more for the re-
mote future. During the fiscal year
1857 we sold S., ISL $50 worth of cotton
cloth to the Chinese-more than TO all
the peoples of this hemisphere outside
ofthe United States put together. The
New York CONNIE rciat Bulletin has
information that we are shipping con-
siderable quantities of cstton goods to
China via the Canada Pacific railroad
which find DO place in our export sta
tistics, SO that our sales may in reality
greatly exceed the figures above CIV
en-.
Furthermore, there is n prospect of
the Introduction of rail- Dads and the
telephone into China at no distant
day, and it would not be amiss for us
to be in position TO take a leading
part in these enterprises, and in secure
fhg for American productions large
share in the vast market this will
open up. It is a great mistake to
court the hostility of the Chiuese un-
der existing circumstances aud pros
poets.
contemplate power that it once was
and that too many Americans igon-
rantly suppose it TO be. 1t has al
= ready formidable navy and is rap
idly modeEnizing its army-a fact of
which practical and very substantial
proof appeared during the receut col
lision with the French. We may
wake up some fine morning and find
that we have been '.monkeying wita
puzz- saw"
The presidential election is over and
it is no longer party necessity TO
treat China with an insoleEce that we
would not visit upon any power that
we believed capable Of meeting an in
suit. Isn't it about time to exercise
little common sense md courtesy in
this business? We can accomplish all
that is necessary by diplomaticy.
There is no need of heaping insult up
on country that is disposed to he
friendly. Chicago Times.