The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-07-22
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CHINA TO RETALIATE

there Is liable 10 De tIouUie Del"eoa
the United S,a'es and China On &C
count of the exclusion act. lie saws
emphaticaliy unless it is repealed
China will exclude all Americans
from its borders and pursue policy
of retaliation. Such a thing might
he attended by serious circumstances.
The exclusion act was pissed at The
earnest solicitation of Cslifornians
particularly, as well as that of the
entire Pacific slope. In the extreme
west they are so numerous as to be a
nuisance. People here cannot appre-
ciate what filthy creatures they are in
their own haunts. That part OF San
Francisco known as "ChinatOwn"
must be seen and smelled to be appre-
ciated. Its inhabitants are moreover a
lawless, reckless set and make up a
wholly undesirable population when
there is any considerable number of
them in one place. Another objec-
ton to til IN is that in Y work Tor
very low wages and drive o'her labor
ont of the market. 4 Chinaman can
live a month on what 'Thlte man
would require for a week. Then, too,
they accumulate monsy and take it
back with them. They have no de-
sire nor intention to become Ameri-
can citizens. A few hundre dollars
of our money m axes man wea thy
In China.
But the Chinese minister points cut
that the United States hid so'emn
treaty with China, the terms OF which
are in exact opposition to the exclu-
sion act. The Cninamen expect our
government TO live up to and respect
its treaties, and is disapp )intei at the
failure. He points out, too, that his
countrymen built the Yves ern rail-
roads. and aid the manual labor on
hosts of great enterprises when othe'
hands wee not avail able. They are
satisfied with sinai, wages and do not
strike. He saws: "Wh=n they sre
driven our, tha cspita'ist viii be At
the mercy Of either foreign laborers,
who will not work 50 cheap, aud who
will combine and srke an leopard
ize capital" There is force in the
suggestion that emp'o;i Ing capitalists
will lose money if they lost the chance
of employing Cinnamon. 1t is also
charged that they make what money
thew can here. and then take 1t away,
which is su hstantia ly what the Amerl-
cans are doing in China, only on 4
larger scale. There is much more
American capt. Il in China than there
is Chinese capital in the United States.
An aggressive retaliation would result
in millions of dollars of loss to Amerl-
can investments in China. If the
bill is not repealed, the Chinese pro-
pose to run out every American from
their country.
The Chinese are represente ! as be-
ing very indignant. After the adopt
ion of the act the Secretary OF State
and the Minister drew up a new
treaty, which was sent to China fol
approval. The Emperor would have
none of it, and the people were so IN
sensed against their Minister a
Washington that he allowed such
law to be passed, that they burned nj
house and property and the Govern
ment recalled him. The new Ministe
understands the facts and is not espe
cially delighted at his own appoint
ment under the present circumstances
He proposes to lay the matter befor
the Secretary of State, and tell hin
what China wants, and what it will d
if the request is not granted. ID
hopes to be able to put it so strongl
that MIR. Blaine will ask Congre;
to repeal the obnoxious law. 1t
hardly probable his hopes will be rea