The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-03
AN ISSUE With CHINA.


Reference has been mazda IN tbesa col
INNS 70 tne re-opening on the part of the
ouinese government Of the correspondence
win tne United States relative to our dis
examinations against Chinese immigration.
Also 10 the fact that loop-hole has been
formed through which, by means of Brit
lsn naturalization, Cinnamon evade the
exclusion act under our treaty with Eng
land.
Apout Twelve years ago Congress passed
an act iorbidding the landing of Chipese
on our shores. except the few who had
| ii'eu IN tnis country and might be return
Jug alter a short visit to China or other
ANUS, but number of yellow-faced Ce-
,esuials occasionally slipped in by land
from the British provinces and Mexico.
ana new exclusion bill was forthcom-
Ing to forbid even the return of China
men who might leave the country for any
purpose. The anti-Chinese feeling is still
ao@Ve ana determined. The people on the
aclnc coast consent that the Chinese now
Ia 1he country-about S0,0OO-n may stay till
they Gle, but not another shall be permit
ted TO come. This is the kernel of the
ant-Chinese creed of California, Oregon
ana Washington, and there are reasons Tor
believing they would go so far as to fight
Tor 1t, in which case it would be imnossi-
ole to raise a force sufficient to subdue
them. The Chinese question is. in truth. a
LABOR question, or part OF the labor cues
Vton ID thls country-and no party or ad-
minis tration would dare provoke the work
ing millions by attempting to force the Pa
chic states to submit to anything like
gentle or liberal Chinese policy.
But the government of China is prepar-
ing to resist our policy of excluding
Chinese from our soil by excluding Amer
leans from theirs. Americans in the
tlowery Kingdom have been far from be-
ing the weak and cringing creatures that
the Chinese have shown themselves to be
mere. They have Knocked at the religion of
the celestials, ridiculed their manners and
customs, reviled their institutions and de-
ned their vengeance by threats of appeal
Ing to the American government for pro-
tectlon against any retaliation for their in
suits. The HERALD dispatches of yester-
day mentioned that at late public meet
ing at Shanghai resolutions were adopted
petitioning the United States and Great
Britain to 'bring pressure to hear'' on the
Chinese authorities for the suppression of
certain class of literature distasteful to
them. 1t is further stated that there is a
general desire to have the United States
government represented in Chinese waters
by better war-ships, apparently as
menace.
1t would seem only fair if we exclude
Cinnamon from "the land of the free and
the home Of the braves that Americans
ought gracefully to submit to a denial of
any right Of residence among the Ceestials.
American missionaries, teachers, mer-
chants, travellers, railroad men and lsborers
will be forbidden to land in China. and it ia
even probable that those already there will
be invited to leave. Such a retaliatory
measure is evidently being meditated, and
we may look for the edict any day. Of
course when it comes it will bring matters
to head and present a most perplexinR
question to our government 1t would
have to elect between modifying it's anti
Chinese policy, at the risk of mourning a
revolt in the Pacific states, or submitting
to harsh anti-American policy on the
other side OF the Pacific, with the surren-
der OF whatever influence and prestige the
great Republic may possess in that quarter. |