The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-02
CH|NESE-MEX|CAN TREATY
ConsuI-GeneraI Ii Wing You
Reported Against Its
Ratification.
troll Cody Citizens Of
Mexico.

Chinatown is expectant. It is waiting
more or less impatiently, for some official
news of the treaty between China and
Mexico. Every incoming steamer now is
expected to bring some word of the matter
either of its rejection or its approval by
the Chinese Government. While the war
was on there was no hope that the Emperor
or his Ministers of State would have time
to consider sub minor question, but
now that hostilities have ceased those in
Chinatown that have interests at stake in
the rejection or the acceptance by the
home powers of the offers of free land and
citizenship made by Mexico to Chinese
subjects are on the anxious seat for news.
1t is learned now upon good authority
that Consul Ii Wing You, upon his return
from Mexico a few months ago. reported
to the Chinese Minister at Washington his
disapproval of the ratification of the pro-
posed treaty. There was no reason to COM
plain of the terms offered by Mexico. That
Government wants some of its broad acres
put under cultivation, and to this end it
offered to give every Chinese family who
choose to come 50-acre tract of ground
on condition that at least one-third OF the
.,
and that the grantee should become a
citizen of Mexico.
1t is said that Ii Wing You's disapproval
of such treaty between China and Mexico
ested upon the objection that was purely
chronological. He did not think it possible
or practicable to undertake the amalgama-
ton of Latin and a Turanian people. 1t
is understood, however, that the real Mon
golian objection to the Mexican colonial
ton scheme lies in the fact that the home
Government would lose their control of
the Mexican immigrants. The policy of
the Chinese Government is to retain the
allegiance of and their control over all
their subjects at all times.
1t is for this reason also that the Chinese
Six Companies have given their disap-
proyal to the ratification of any such a
treaty. All these objections to the treaty
have, however, been kept somewhat of a
secret in Chinatown, and for obvious rea-
sons. There are several powerful mer-
chants that have big interests at stake in
the proposed treaty. These favor it. Two
of them accompanied the consular party
on its recent trip through Mexico.
These merchants are said to have their
eyes on the choicer sections of the land
offered by Mexico to Chinese settlement.
1t is their plan to have the colonization
carried on under their supervision and
only through their financial assistance-if
there is to be any colonization at all. 1t
means great deal of money to them and
for a long time. doubtless, the colonists, in
spite of their Mexican citizenship, would
be serfs of the colonization company
which should advance the small capital
necessary for them to commence opera
tons.
On the other hand, large number of the
poorer classes of Chinese in this State are
anxious to have the land open for their
settlement, and it is quite certain that
there would be considerable exodus of
treaty to be ratified. And that is WHY SO
many in Chinatown are on the qui vive for
news from home regarding the proposed
treaty of a Turanian and Latin people.