The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-10-19
A CHINESE ARGUMENT.
Wu Ting Fang at the Philadelphia
Commercial Congress,
REPEAL AN OBJECTIONABLE LAW

The Exclusion Act, says ChIna's Rep
resentative at washington, should
he RescIndcd as BID For the Trade
OF the orient.
Philadelphia, Oct 19.-At yesterdays
session of the International CONNER
cial congress John Barrett, ex-minister
to Siam, made an address In the
course of his address he said.
I'VE are face to face with moral
responsibilities in the far east but
they carry with them immeasurable
material opportunities in commerce
and trade from the Philippines and
Siam on the south of Japan and ST.
IBERIA on the north that few people
in America appreciate. If we shall
cOurageously and successfully meet
these responsibilities in the Philip
pines we shall become the first po-
litical and commercial power of the
Pacific; if we shirk or fail we shall
come trailing along behind England,
Russia, Germany and Japan The
whole orient is watching US Our
ability to protect our great and grow
ing markets i'm China depends largely
on the result OF our Philippine policy.
Ii we fail at Manila we may fail at
Peking. If we are not strong at Man
fla we shall weaken at Toxic Peking
Seoul and Bangkok. When Dewey sail
ed into Manila bay and destroyed the
Spanish fleet he made America un-
questionably the permanent power of
the Pacific. But we are now on trial.
We cannot maintain that position ex-
cept by an early and successful solu-
tion of the Philippine problem"
The Chinese minister, WI Ting
Fang, delivered an interesting ad-
dress, in the course of which he said:
81 take this opportunity to say, by
way of a general answer to the pre-
ceding speakers who have referred to
the open door in my country, that
China always favors the open door.
China opens her doors to the peoples
and the trade of every country, with
out distinction as to race or color"
When Minister Wu Ting Fang con-
cluded his address the delegates ap-
plauded him for several minutes. The
minister graciously acknowledged the
tribute by rising and bowling.
At the conclusion of Minister WI
Ting Fang's address Mr.. John Foord.
of New York, secretary of the Ameri-
can Asiatic association, presented a
resolution citing in it's preamble that
the exports of American manufac-
lures to China are growing in value
and in volume with a rapidity uneX-
ampled in any other market; that no
other market in the world offers such
vast and varied opportunities for the
further increase of American exports;
that these opportunities are absolutely
dependent on the maintenance of
| equality of commercial privilege, which
| treaties made with the United States
secure throughout the whole of the
/ Chinese empire and that certain for
| eign powers seem to show a disposi-
tion to restrict that market to the ad
vantage of their own citizens and the
| exclusion of others by the creation
of spheres of influence, and that it is
resolved as the judgment of the repre-
| sentatives of American industry and
! commerce engaged in the China trade,
here assembled as delegates to the in
! ternational commercial congress, that
| an emphatic declaration should be
made by the government of the Uni
| ted States of it's intention to protect
/ to its fullest extent the rights which
| its citizens enjoy under exiting treaties
! to pursue their trade in the Chinese
| empire.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted.
Colonel Bell. United States consul
| at Sidney, n. S. W., in a brief address
said that we must keep open the doors
for China if we can expect China to
/ keep open doors for US. That is the
only right way.
] TIT -srg,s - .
point of privilege, spoke as follows;
81 wish to answer one of the speak
ers here who made the remark, 1t is
very fine to say that it is not just to
exclude the Chinese from America, but
| China has 10000, 600 inhabitants, and
| if the exclusion law is repealed will
not these come to America?
81 am very glad the question was
asked, so as to give me the oppor-
tunity of answering. The Chinese that
come here come only from two prov
inces in Canton. You never see a
northern Chinaman here. No men
from Shanghai, for instance, except in
the diplomatic corps.
"These two provinces have only a
population of about a million, so that
even should all come. which is mani
testify absurd. it would not be very
serious. The total number of China
mep in America now is about 100, ,OO0
Why did these people come? Thirty
years ago when you were construct
ing your western railroads, you sent
agents to China and begged the la
borers to come here. OF course others
followed their example later. But had
you not done this l do not believe
there would have been any Chinese
| laborers here today.
"These men do not rob you. They
work day and night and make faith
ful servants. I admit that they want to
make a few dollars and go home, but
is not that just what you Americans
who come to China want? l believe
that to get this trade of China it +;
worth while to repeal this objection
able statute"
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