The record-union., 1893-05-19

lOTclDl6 deportation III case tnGy refuse TO
comply with certain regulations The
Chinese Government has the right, un-
der this precedent, to exclude all Ameri-
cans from Chinese territory, including
missionaries, merchants and travellers.
They have right to deport these people
Immediately and without warning. They
are not bound to follow, to the letter, the
methods of the United States. The prin-
ciple that we have laid down is exclusion,
and the processes are mere matters of de-
tail. The order is to go, and we have
regulated the order of the going. The
| Chinese may make the same sort OF an
order and declare that the Americans
within their boundaries must not stand
on the order of their going. We have
sauced the goose; if the Chinese choose
to put little more sauce on the gander
| we must not complain.
| Marysville Democrat: Is 1t not fact
the Geary law is the result, principally,
of the agitation by other residents who
are of foreign birth, who have in view a
selfish motive-that of obtaining higher
rate for their labor. And if this is IA fact
can such legislation be justified on the
grounds OF fear of the Chinese when, in
fact, it is the other classes that we fear.
We do not remember of the Chinese or
ganizing to prevent other foreigners to
obtain employment, or of their burning
property and numbering those who were
answer for which no doubt can justly be
charged to the account of other foreign
born residents, and while it is true that
the Chinese are not a desirable class of
people, there are others here who are
equally undesirable. We find Chinese in
almost every branch of labor, from the
kitchen to the machine-shop, and they
are, as rule, an industrious people who
do not turn out many tramps. They are
almost, If not quite, necessity to the
hortlculturists, grape-growers and Vege-
table consumers of this State, though it is
true the deficiency could be supplied
in time by another class of foreigners.
But would such change be a benefit, and
would not the profits of the producers
grow less by the change? These are very
important questions.
Stockton Mail: To carry the Act into
effect means that every Chinese laborer
in the country who is without the GER
tlhcate OF registration provided for by
the Geary Act shall be sent to China or to
the country of which he may be a citizen,
at the expense of the American Govern
ment. But it must not be supposed that
such deportation may be enforced in an
arbitrary manner. 1t is a mistake to
suppose that the hundred thousand or
more Of Chinese laborerS in the country,
and who are without the required GER
titicates by reason of failing to comply
with the Geary Act, can be arrested and
sent away without judicial tnvestiga
ton of their rights. On the contrary,
every Chinaman in the country who is
liable to deportation under the law may
demand judicial examination of his
case.
Santa Cruz Surf: If the Chinese in the
United States had registered according to
It's requirements not queue would have
been disturbed, and later invaders might
easily have been apprehended. The
| registration requirements were no more
offensive to the dignity of the individual
than the electoral registration of CalifOr-
MIA citizens, and would have been COM
piled with by the masses of the Chinese
but for the Interference of the Six Com
panies. They literally coerced the coolies
into noncompliance with the new law
The Chinese Companies took all the
benefit o. the doubt that might exist re-
gardlng the constitutionality of the Act
and tested the temper of the country to
its limit. The Act has been sustained
and will be enforced-in its spirit
Los Angeles Herald: There is no
doubt but that the mass of the Cinnamon
now in the United States have been un-
der duress by the Six Companies. and
nave been prevented from registering.
Any equitable view of the matter should
take that fact into consideration. An
other feature of this most anomalous busi-
ness Is that an appeal was taken to the
Supreme Court of the United States from
the New ork courts, and that a decision
on that appeal was held over the 5th of
May, the day appointed for the deporta-
ton of such Cinnamon as failed to repis-
ter. Under such circumstances, and the
TACT that the Government has provided
no means for Ghe deportation of such
large numbers of the heathen, an extern
sion of the date of deportation is an ac-
complished fact, and there can be no
hnt w ha c+i1I
extended. Means must be devised to
carry out the expressed will of the Nation
If the Chinese should still continue recall
citrant. If, after final decision in the
courts the case is, as it surely will be, de-
cided against them, all unregistered Chi
namen should be packed bodily over to
Cathay, bag and baggage, scrip and scrip
page.
Los Angeles Times: There are many
; people who believe that the Supreme
Judges who rendered the dissenting
opinions in the Chinese cases have the
better of the argument. However regu-
lar and satisfactory the Geary law NAV
appear when we contemplate a registra-
ton OF all the Chinese in this country, the
fact remains that they have not regis
tered, and we are brought face to face
with the extreme alternative of banish-
ing all who have not complied with the
law. This means wholesale svstem of
Ireland or the expulsion of the Moors; a
: wholesale deportation more sweeping
and arbitrary than that meted out to DO
litical convictS in Russia. The Govern
ment of the United States is not prepared
to undertake such drastic measures
There is no public fund with which to de-
fray the expense. And, even allowing
that everything else were provided for
the immediate expulsion of all Chinese
laborers would be such shock to the in
dustrial systems of the Pacific Coast as to
utterly PROSTATE them. We must begin
to look at this matter candidly and in the
light of an actual possibility. Neither a
Just consideration of the rights of Chinese
who are now domiciled in this country
nor Of our own requirements, will allow
of such violent alternative as the Geary
law contemplates.
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