Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-07
WILL RETALIATE.
China Threatens to Exclude
American Citizens.
The Repeal of Recent Chinese
Legislation Demanded.
Minister Tsui Says That Our Treaty
Has Been Violated.
American interests in China Claimed to
Be'In Jeopardy--Wha Cheap
Labor Has Done.
Associated Press Dispatches. |


New York, July 6.-The Chinese
minister to Washington, Tsui, arrived
on the Bretagne today. A newspaper
correspondent was passenger on the
same steamer, and according to his
paper, had long talk with Minister
Tsui, the report of which is printed this
morning. His excellency's words are
said to have been carefully translated by
Mr.. Lee, the Official interpreter to the
Chinese legation. The Celestial diplomat
is very considerably worried about re-
cent events in this country so far as tine
Chinese are concerned. Unless the
the United States government repeals
the law which now excludes my
countrymep from this country" said
the diplomat, 1--WE shall treat the Amer
leans to dose of their own medicine. I
mean we shall exclude citizens of the
United States from the Chinese empire.
We hope we shall not be pushed to any
measures of retaliation.
"The Chinese foreign Office has sent
several demands to Blaine to repeal the
exclusion law. We have received no
reply from him. Of course, congress
alone can set right the present outrage,
but the state department is the
proper channel for negotiations.
After this exclusion law was
passed, in defiance of all treaties, Secre-
tary Bayard and the former minister
from China, Chang Yen Hoon, had
conference, and the result was the pro-
posed new treaty with China, which
contained an exclusion law.
"When this treaty was submitted to
the emperor and council it was instantly
repudiated. The Indignation again st
the minister was such that his house
was burned and all his property within
reach destroyed"
"What is the present status of the
question in China?"
"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. That you have done so there
can be no doubt, and if we
find the United States means
to persist in excluding Chinese from its
shores we shall proceed to use the same
tactics. The Chinese government will
forbid the landing Of American citizens
in the empire"
''How about the American citizens
now residents of China and the Ameri-
can capital invested there"
"All these will be matters of detail
which the council of state will arrange
l am aware that there are great many
millions of American capital in China.
American interests in China are
more important financially than our
invested interests in the United States,
and any rupture between the two ma
tions viii, Of course, injure American in
vestme nts."
'What is believed in China to be the
reason for our exclusion laws?"
'sIt is generally supposed to be the
work of politicians. know, of course,
your argument about cheap labor and
the destruction of fair wages, you say
Cinnamon come to America and save all
the money they make and then take it
home with them that they do not
become citizens. Well, is not that ex-
actly what every American in China is
doing? The Chinese have built your
great western railroads, and their cheap
labor has made possible and has carried
through to successful completion public
works and enterprises which would have
been impossible with other labor. The
Chinese are satisfied with small wages,
and do not strike. When they are driven
out the capitalist will be at the mercy Of
other foreign laborers, who will not work
so cheap and who will combine and
strike and jeopardize capital. Chinese
cheap labor has been tried in the varicns
parts Of the world, and always with sac
cess"