Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-08
CHINA'S THREAT.
She Will Exclude Our Citizens
from Her Empire
If Our Chinese Exclusion Law is
Not Repealed.

An Interview on the Subject With Minis
ter Tsui, the Chinese Ambassador to
Washington, Who Has just Arrived
from HaVPe.
NEW YORK, July 9.--The World pub
fishes an interview with Minister Tsui,
the Chinese ambassador to Washington,
who arrived in this city on the steam
ship La Bretagne from France.
Minister Tsui said: "Unless the
United States government repeals the
law which now excludes my country
men from this country. we shall treat
Americans to dose of their own medi-
cine. mean that we shall exclude citi-
zens of the United States from the Chi
nese empire.
1--WE hope we shall not be pushed to
any measure of retaliation. The Chi
nese foreign Office has sent several de-
mands to Mr.. Blaine to repeal the ex-
clusion law We have received no re-
ply from him. OF course, congress
alone can set right the present outrage,
but the state department is the proper
channel of negotiation. Our treaties
with the United States have been To-
garded as sacred trusts, and we have
lived up to the very letter Of them.
Now, without the slightest warning or
excuse, the United States cruelty breaks
It's solemn agreement, and builds up a
barrier against our citizens.
After this exclusion 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, it was instantly repudi-
ated. The indignation against the min
ister was such that his house was
burned, and all his property within
reach was destroyed. The Chinese gov
ernment at once refused to entertain
any such proposal for new treaty, and
demanded that the exclusion law
be at once repealed, and the terms of
present treaty complied with.
Being questioned as to the present
status of the question in China, Minister
Tsui said: ~1ihe council Of state which
guides the emperor is simply waiting to
hear from the United States foreign
Office. If we find that the United
States persists in excluding the Chinese
from its shores, we shall proceed to
the same tactics. The Chinese govern
ment will forbid the landing of Ameri-
can citizens in the empire"
Il am aware that there is great deal
of American capital invested in China
American interests in China are vastly
vested interests in the United States
,f.1ra hntxUaaT1 tho fNUn nd ions
will, of course, injure the American in
vestments.
In China the passage of the exclusion
act is generally supposed to be the work
of the politicians. | know, of course,
your argument about cheap labor and
the destruction of fair wages. You say
the Cinnamon come to America and
save all the money! they can, and then
carry it home with them, that they do
not become citizens Is not that exactly
what every American in China is doing
The Chinese laborers have built your
great western railroads, and their cheap
labor has made possible and has carried
through to successful completion vast
works and enterprises which would
have been impossible with other labor.
The Chinese are satisfied with small
wages hflu w hOt slllhO' NAlilCoo ShCeip
labor has been tried in various parts OF
the world and is always a success"
A Herald reporter also had an inter
view with Minister Tsui. The Herald
says the minister would not commit
himself regarding the exclusion act
more than to say that the question of
Chinese exclusion would form the gist
Of diplomatic work in Washington dur
ing the coming winter. He desires, he
says, to know Just what the United
States will do about the matter.
Minister Tsui is evidently very much
in earnest over the subject, and feels
that something must be done for the
| would-be Chinese immigrant without
| delay.