The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-06-15

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az 90 Dlr irHlrs however. tUuo pralp /
hly excited such "a wh.uwud uf fury ~
thr s0 called JHg truty THIS was nrgo.
tatcl ty John lU. and Lord Granville
and was Signed by them 1t London Nov
49, li0i. H. wus general settlement Ut
all unsettled matters lciU over from the
Revolution, and all historians agree that
congress WIS only induced TO- mufy II be-.
cnuse OF the anxiety Of the western settlers
To- have the British military posts removed
SO that the government could deal directly
with the Indians John ~ was burned
In cilipy and threatened with personal VIC.
lcncc and legal prosecution. He was bur.
lesqucd and ridiculcd I'm every kind of ri
bald prose and duppcrl poetry, and Prcsi
dent Washington was bv no means spared.
some may think MIR Cleveland caught IL
pretty heavily ON account oil the Hawaiian
business, but his experience was no worse
than that Of Washington Among the
thousands uf jokes drawn forth by the
hated treaty one was considered so good
that it was republished repeatedly in every
Republican-which then meant Democrat
ic-paper of the time and finally got into
the almanacs, and SO became historical. 1t
was something like this. A Democrat, be
ing told that one of the new sailing ships
had arrived from Liverpool in three weeks,
replied: That's nothing TO wonder at.
The Jay treaty has brought rs much near
er to England " our forcfathcrs certainly
could not have been as witty as their de
scendants, for this was thought to be one
of the finest jokes ever conceived
Pending Chinese Treaty.
The recent Chinese trca.v like all the
other Chinese treaties, deals chiefly with
trade and mutual immigration Our first
treaty with China was signed July 3, 1874,
! and it Is observable that the so called
/ problem which now cNcites So many west
| ern Americans was then not even thought
| Of for the treaty plainly imp les that travel
] between the two countries was TO be en-
Couraged. That treaty gave The United
States the rights of trade and residence Of
citizens and their families at the five ports
Of kwang- chow, Annoy, Fuchau, Ningpo
and Shanghai Fourteen years passed
away before we had another treaty with
| China, and its terms show chat the relH-
tions of the two countries had greatly
changed The first article of the treaty Of
1868 provides that the United States shall
exert its good offices to prevent any other
nation from acting unjustly or oppressive
ly toward China. The fifth article pro
vides that the American minister in China
shall have the right to visit the imperial
capital once year and confer with Off
cials of the highest rank, but he shall not
visit il on trivial grounds or delay in the
transaction of business while there.
Other articles greatly enlarge the priv
ilegcs of American citizens il trading and
passing from port to port in China, and
finally the twenty-ninth article recognizes
the Christian religion as lone which
teaches men to do good" and provides that
neither Americans nor Chinese converts
shall be molested on account of their reli-
Eion. This was followed by u convention
for trade and agreement upon long tariff
schedule on American goods admitted in
to China.
Trade with the MonGolians.
Ten years latgr--to wit, in lS6S-began
the series of treaties on immigration, and
every reading American knows the rest
how each successive treaty has been more
radical how hatred of the Chinese grew
until It became sort of insC nifty, how
riots and cruelty led to reaction, and how
finally the sweeping measures were adopt
ed for excluding all Mungolians from this
country And what have we gained by all
our negotiations with Chinai Well, the
very latest paper filed in the state depart
I ment, and bringing the summary down to
a few weeks ago, shows THAI there are in
l all the Celestial Empire 543 foreign firms
established and doing general mercantile
e business, and that nationally they are
5 divided as follows: English, 1868; German,
+ rs; American, 81; French, 90; Russian,
10; Portuguese, :, and all other nations,
i 20. Nor does it appear that the export
trade Of this country to China is of bulk
to be seriously missed if we should lose it
Il all
On the other hand it appears that not
: only do the English far exceed all other
nations in the number of their establish
ments there, but each is singly SO much
larger that the trade of all the rest of the
world with China is quite small compared
with that Of England alone. 1t further APP
pears that negotiations are in progress
which, If successful, will displace the
coarse and handmade cotton goods OF
China by the finer ones of English make;
that English machinery is likely to be ad-
mitted free of hindrance, and, in short,
that there is scarcely any assignable limit
to the enormous trade which England may
! develop with the Mongolians. Ii is well t.
bear in mind, however, that we always re
ceive many statements of that kind wheI
Chinese treaties are pending, and possibly
, If we could read in the same connection
the British reports on the condition o
trade, we should find that they are, II
their own opinion, doing very badly in
, deed. J. B. PARKE,