Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-07-07
OESERET EVENING NEWS.
Monday. July =. 1890.
Monday.
THE CELESTIALS.
Tn Chinese Minister 10 Washington
On Americas Action Toward
His Couutrymen.
He DRAWS a LITTLE COMPARE
SON THEREON.
Ten Hungarian Women Poison Their
Hush ands: Four Sentenced
10 Death.
By Telegraph to the SEwsl
THE CHINESE MINISTER
interviewed by a Newspaper Cor
respondent In New York.

I pN
respondent In New York.
NEW YORK, July 6.-The Chi
nese minister To Washington, Tsui,
arrived on La Bretagne today. A
newspaper correspondent was a pas
seuger on the same boat, and ac-
coming to the paper had n long talk
with Minister Tsui, the report OF
which is printed this morning. His
excellency's words are said Ia have
been carefully translated by Mr..
Lee, the official interpreter TO the
Chinese legation.
The Celestial diplomat is very
considerably worried over recent
events In this country 80 far as the
| Chinese are concerned.
Unless the United States repeats
the law which now excludes my
countrymen from this country"
said the diplomat, 1--WE shall treat
Americans to a dose Of their own
medicine. mean that we shall
exclude citizens OF the United
States from China. We shall be
pushed to measures Of retaliation.
The Chinese foreign Office has sent
several demands TO Blaine TO repeal
the law. We have received no re-
ply from him.
or course, Congress alone can set
right the present outrage, tut the
State Department is the proper
channel for negotiations. After this
exclusion law was passed, Secretary
Bayard and the
FORMER MINISTER FROM CHINA,
Chang Yen Hoon, conferred, and
the result was proposed new treaty
with China, which contained an
exclusion clause.
When this treaty was submitted
to the Emperor and council it was
instantly repudiated. The indigna-
ton against the minister was such
that his house was burned and ali
his property within destroyed.
"What is the present status Of the
question in ChinA?"
1.-The council Of state, which aids
the Emperor, is simply waiting to
hear from the United States foreign
office. Your reputation for fair
dealing and honesty with foreign
nations has been such in the past
that we cannot believe that YOU
mean TO break the treaty without
reason or excuse. But that you
have done so there can be no doubt,
and if We find the United States
means TO persist in excluding the
Chinese from its shores we shall
proceed to the same tactics. Any
rupture between the two nations
will Of course injure American in
vestments.v
"What is believed in China to be
the reason for your exclusion?'
IT Is GENERALLY SUPPOSED
to be the work Of politicians. l
know, of course, your argument
about cheap labor and destruction
Of fair wages. You say that China
men come to America and save all
the money they can and then take
1t home with them; that they do
not become citizens. Well, is that
not exactly what every American
in China is doing? The Chinese
have built your great Western rail-
roads, and their cheap labor has |
made possible and has carried |
through to successful completion
works and enterprises which would |
be impossible with other labor. The |
Chinese are satisfied with small |
wages anu do not strike. When |
they are driven out the capitalists |
will be at the mercy Of other foreign |
labOrers, who will not work so cheap |
and who will combine and strive to |
jeopardize capital. Chinese cheap |
labor has been tried In various parts |
Of the world and was always a
success"