Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-07-07
HOT PIGTAIL TALK.
China Threatens to Rotaliate Unless
the Exclusion LAW IL Repcnled.


the Exclusion Law Ia Repealed.
Chinese Minister Tsui, who is accredited
TO Spain, Brazil and the United States,
reached New York on the steamer La Bre-
tagne on Sunday and talked freely with
reporter through an interpreter Ho said
"Unless the United States government
rcpeals the law which now excludes my
countrymen from this country We shall
treat Americans to a dose of their own
medicine. l mean we shall exclude ciu-
zens OF the United States from the Chinese
empire"
Have you received information TO this
effect officially from the homo oflice2"
"Wc hope we shall not be pushed to any
measures of retaliation. Tho Chinese for
eign Office has sont several demands 10 Mr..
Blaine to repeal the exclusion law. We
have received no reply from him. Of
course, Congress alone can set right the
present outrage, but tho state department
is the proper channel of negotiation. Our
treaties with the United States nave been
regarded as sacred trusts, and we have
lived up to tho very letter of thoin. Now,
without the slightest warning or excuse,
the Unitcd States cruelty breaks it's sol
emn agreement and builds up a barrier
law was passed in defiance of all treaties
Secretary Bayard and the former minister
from China conferred, and the result was a
proposed new treaty with China which
contained the exclusion law.
"When this treaty was submitted to the
emperor and his council 1t was instantly
repudiated. The Indignation against the
minister was such that his house was
burned and all his property within reach
was destroyed. The Chinese government
| at once demanded that the exclusion law
be at once repealed aud the terms of the
present treaty complied with.
"The council of state, which guides tho
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
intend to break "A treaty without reason
or excuse. That you have done 30 there
can be no doubt, and If we find that the
United States means to persist in exclud-
Ing the Chinese from its shores we shall
proceed to 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 American capi-
tai invested there P'
IAN those will be matters details OF
which the council of state will arrange.
am aware that there are great many mil
lions OF American capital invested in China.
American interests IN China are, Of course,
vastly more important financially than our
invested interests in the United States. Any
rupture between the two nations will, of
course, injure the American investments" a."
"What is believed in China as tho reason
for our exclusion lawsH"
1t is generally supposed TO be the work
OF the politicians. 1 know, of course, your
argument of cheap labor aud destruction of
fair wages. You say that Chinese come TO
America, save all the money they can and
then return to China with it--that they
don't become citizens. Well, isn't that
exactly what every American in China is
doingP"
GLOW about the cheap labor charger"
"Why the Chinese have built your great
Western railroads, and their cheap labor
has made possible and has carried through
to successful completion vast works aud
enterprises which would have been i'm
possible with other labor. The Chinese
are satisfied with small wages and do not
|. strike. When they are driven out tho
capitalists will be at the mercy OF other
foreign laborers who will not work so
cheap, and who will combine and strike
and jeopardi2e capital. Chinese cheap
labor has beon tried in various parts OF the
world, and has always been a success.
Look ut the immense Chinese colonies at
Singapore, the Straits settlement, and other
places"