People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-05-19
STRIKING BACK.
Report That China VIII Resort to
Retaliatory Measures.
a Methodist Missionary Declares That the
CeIestials VIII Send Americans Home
If the Geary Law is Enforced-Test
Case in the Supreme Court
Getting Spunky,


New YORK, May 15.-Rev. DIR. j. S.
Baldwin, for twenty-five years
Methodist missionary in China and for
nearly a quarter of a century secretary
of the missionary board of the Method
list Episcopal church, which has large
moneyed interests in China, said yes
terday that he had positive informa-
ton from dignitaries of the Chinese
government and from his own Chinese
missionaries that if the Chinese exclu-
sion act is carried into effect and
Chinese are shipped from this country
to China, deported simply because they
are here without having taken out GER
tifcates, that Americans in China will
be likewise deported from that country
to the United States.
If the law is declared constitutional
by the supreme court" he said, 81 an
ticipate that there will be a speedy ex-
odus both of missionaries and mer-
chants from China in retaliation for our
sending home Chinese from the United
States. Several years ago this course
was urged upon the Chinese government
by one of the eensors who was support
ed in his memorial by number of
prominent officials. Iii Hung Chang,
at present viceroy Of Chun-Le and
Shang Tung provinces, the great states
man of China, whom Gen. Grant so
heartily admired. has been very slow
to come to this view Of the case
and very unwilling to relinquish his
marked friendship for the United
States. But there is strong ground for
believing that this great statesman has
at last come to the conclusion that the
only way to defend the honor and dig
nifty of his own nation, in view of these
expected acts Of oppressive legislation
on our part and in view of the failure of
diplomatic action to produce any rem
edy, is to enter upon course Of re-
taliation and treat Americans in China
as Chinese are treated in America.
This is the most perilous time in the
relation of China to the United States
that has yet been encountered. 1t is
probable that the Methodist church will
make an appeal to the Chinese authori-
ties in case the deportation is decided
upon in behalf of the Methodist mis-.
Sionaries now stationed in all of the
provinces"
WASHINGTON, May 15.-Returns OF
Chinese registration from thirty-fve
out of the siXty-three internal districts
in the United States show that 3, 1859
Chinese have complied with the law
The districts most densely populated
by Chinese have not yet made their re-
turns. 1t is estimated that there are
10000 Chinese in the United States.
In the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON. May lin the special
session of the supreme court of the
United States to-day the arguments up
on the constitutionality of the Geary
Chinese exclusion act upon appeal from
the United States circuit court for the
southern district of New York, at
tracted a crowd which more than filled
the room. Many of them were noted
men.
The argument was opened by Joseph
II. Choate, of New York. for the petit
TONERS, Fong Yue Ling, Wong Guam
and Lee Joe. He said he believed it
was not permissible for counsel to seek
to impress upon this court the impor-
tance and magnitude of the questions
involved in eases submitted for its
adjudication Nevertheless, he would
so far tranSgresS the rule. as
TO state broadly two questions at issue
first. should 100000 of unoffending
and helpless residents of this country
under the authority of an act of con
gress. without review by its courts,
be transported to the seaShore and
thence deported to China; and second,
in case the emperor Of China should
tomorrow feel inclined to follow the
example of this great and enlightened
country and eXpel from his domain the
Americans residing therein. should the
voice of this people, either through its
government, its press or by individuals
be prevented from uttering single
protest?
SOlicitor-General Aldrich argued in
favor of the constitutionality of the
Geary law. which, he said, had not fol
its purpose the deportation of Chinese
laborerS, as counsel for the petitioner,
enormously assumed, but to provide Z
system OF Identification and registration
for such as We're. This is a lawful pur
pose. whether applied to citizens o.
alienS-in fact, the right of the govern
ment to require an Identification anC
registration of its citizens, of their pos
sessions and their resources, and tn,
location of all these, has never beer
seriously disputed. The means b,
which the Identification is obtained
the solicitor-general contended, wer
lawful. and the act reasonable an,
humane in its provisions.
persisted IN THE FLAMES.