The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-03
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their situation worse. / do not go
through States where the Chinese have
been so treated and know that I would
be besieged by Cinnamon in California
having complaints to make. The second
son why l chose the route through
Canada was that l am advanced in age
and l must take great care of my health.
l was told in China that the steamship
Emperor of China was the largest and
most comfortable of those on the Pacific
ocean and that decided me to &C by way
of Vancouver instead of taking smaller
steamship at San Francisco.
81 wish to say more about the eXclu-
sion act. The exclusion act is a mos: I'M
fair one and most foolish, because it is
admitted by all who have studied politi-
cal economy that competition, and COM
petition alone, will keep market i'll good
health, whether the market is one of COM
merce or labor. Put aside from your
minds that / am high Chinese official
and mandarin and look upon me as Il man
who is studying the best interests of
America. l say to you that to exclude
cheap labor or cheap commerce from your
country is unfair and against the best
interests of your country. BY excluding
the Chinese and taking the Irish you get
inferior labor and pay superior prices for
it,
At the conclusion of the interview Earl
Ii called on Mayor Strong at the city hall
and then went to Brooklyn, where he
visited the navy yard and other points of
interest.
IA Chinaman lives n more simple life
than an lrishman and the Irish hate the
Chinese because they are the possessors
of higher virtues. Is this fair to exclude
to advance any argument i'll support of
the exclusion of the Chinaman I will be
pleased to hear it and answer him.
No reporter cared to argue the question
with the ambassador and the following
was put to him:
els there any desirable outlet for Amer
lean property in China?''
wealth." said the ambassador, sis
only produced by capital, labor and land
China invites American capital, but it
must be understood that the Chinese CON
tinue in control of their own country
Gen. Grant, who was the best friend
ever had, gave me piece of advice once
and that advice proved to me to be good
and | will always follow it. He advised
me to invite all capital to China, but he
also advised me that any enterprise in
China must remain in control of the Chi
nese government. We must maintain
sovereign rights to control any railroads
or other great works of improvement in
our country
The viceroy stopped and looked around
at the reporters.
care you the best representatives of
your papers:n he asked; because if you
are you are very poor representatives of
your papers"
Having administered this snub in his
placid Chinese way, Ii Hung Chang
drifted into another topic, and said that
the Chinese girls were all educated by
governesses in their families, which he
said was very different from America and
he looked as if he was glad of it,
He was asked the question whether the
American system of educating girls would
be taken up in China and said:
1--WE study all the systems and take the
best
SIS your visit to this country one of
commercial or of political significance:''
he was asked.
The viceroy did not want to answer this
question and he evaded it by saying that
the time had arrived for him to attend to
other matters and he must declare the
interview closed