The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-10
Chinese Exclusion.

Following are the resolutions on the
Chinese question recently passed by the
San Francisco Chamber OF Commerce:
Whereas: The Chamber Of Commerce
of San Francisco has never considered
the question of Chinese immigration
deeming it subject not germane to a
commercial organization DESTROYS of
limiting it's action within it's proper
sphere and, Whereas. this question has
recently been considered in it's CONNER
cial aspect, with conclusions deemed by
us unwarranted by facts and diametri-
cally opposed to our convictions, based
on forty years. observation and expert
ence; and whereas, Chamber of Com
merce has no higher duty than the in
culcation OF a patriotism that values our
Republican government above cOnsidera-
tions of temporary profit and expediency !;
and whereas, by reasons of its geograph-
ical position San Francisco is largely in
terested in the Chinese trade, and the
membership of this chamber better
qualified than the merchants at other
commercial centers of the republic to
Judge the question of Chinese immigra-
ton on its merits; therefore, be it
Resolved-That unrestricted Chinese
immigration would prove an element of
great danger to a republican form of gov
eminent and should be strictly prohibit
ed by treaties and legal enactment.
Resolved-That whatever temporary
inconvenience or loss accrues by reason
of better remunerated labor has its
compensation by improved commercial
and political conditions and should be
cheerfully borne by our capitalists, land
proprietOrs and manufacturers having
in view the necessity for homogeneous
nationality that will defend the republic
in time of war as well as furnish its labor
in time of peace.
Resolved-That our country, having
already on its hands the solution OF one
great race problem, which will tax the
wisest craftsmanship, should vigorously
avoid a second problem of the same
character with the unaSsimilative Mon
golian race.
Resolved-That commerce being con-
trolled mostly by considerations of profit,
and the balance of trade with the Chin
csc Empire being largely against the
United States, no apprehension need be
entertained OF injury to our Chinese
trade, especially as the rights accorded
subjects of the Chinese Empire here are
largely in excess of what our citizens re-
ceive from the Imperial Chinese Govern
ment.
Resolved-That considerations of in
terest, duty and self-respect demands
that all Chinese subjects legally residing
in the United States, should be treated
with the same humanity and justice as
any other foreigners residing in our
country.
! Resolved-That while we are striving
| to protect our Pacific shores from the adj
vent OF an undesirable immigration, we
urge our Eastern fellow-citizens to pursue
the same policy on the shores OF the At
lantic, protecting the republic from the
pauperism and crime OF European ma.
tons that find it only too convenient to
] send us their undesirable surplus popu.
| lation.
Resolved-That copies OF all these
resolutions, duly attested, be printed and
sent to the California delegation in Con
gress, to the commercial organizations OF
the Atlantic States and to the public
! press.