The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-27
E0ppORIuNIIY IN ASIA.
" ATTER prsCussED ArA NEW
YunK BANQUET.
i rrican Asiatic Association LIS
xens 10 Speeches by AcknowIedg-
- Authorities, Including the MIN
,.ters OF china md japan.

rev, YORK, Jan. @.--One hundred ana
s. - members and guests of the American
Xstic Association sat down to the second
x nSsual dinner of the organization at Del
S.rtcs,s tonight. President Mckinley.
Stretsfy OF State Hay. Secretary CAGE,
ssnators Beveridge. Lodge and Aldrich sent
jStfers OF regret
bGs: - !,
r6arles DENLY.
e aTne American Asiatic Association Ev-
.rstt Fraser. f. $3.50.
s' Emma. the Greatest Potential Market in
~ world" WI Ting Fang.
sJapan, the Pioneer OF Asiatic Progress"
jutaro Konrura.
.srne South and the Open Door In the
- East" John L. McrAurin.
S1he Paramount Interests OF the United
slates III ASIA" John Barrett.
Minister WI Ting Fang wore mis- brill
MATT Oriental costume OF silly embroidered
I'm heavy gold braid and decorated with
chinese Characters.
me minister from Japan wore full even
~ dress after the American model
Tx-Minister DENLY was the first. speaker.
~ maintained that the United States
E1uld not stand idly by and see other
soEors establish hostile camps in China
SSiier the plea OF leaseholds.
ave have as much right" he said, Ito
Intervene in Chinese matters in behalf o.
~ missionaries and merchants as we had
Is Intervene in Venezuelan affairs. We
have Just as much right to preserve and
- or Russia, or any other European pow
n 70 protect its own. Why should England
md Russia and France and Germany arro-
fafe to themselves the control Of Asia? We
are the closest to China OF all the great
ccfnnercial nations except Japan. We have
done more to open It to civilization than
any country except England. Our trade
e next to England's. Our population in
China Is next to Englands. BY what right
hall other nations step in?"
Continuing, Mr.. DENLY said II only re-
NAMED for the American people to 60 out
Tor the greater trade that waited them.
sdding "A new era has come upon u.s.
We have the Hawaiian islands, Guam
Puerto Rico, the Philippines and part OF
Samoa for oIr own, and we are holding
cuba today, whether W. win Or no. These
tiny has been pointed the way to CONNER
eial greatness. Our western coast is alive
awake and is stretching out its hands for
TIE trade Of hundreds OF millions Of pso-
coma and Seattle the rivals OF New York.
Philadelphia and Boston,"
Senator McIAurin, of South Carolina,
spoke at length OF the Industrial growth
Of the South and its stimulation BY trade
with the Orient.
In striving for. commercial expansion,
he said he would not favor the incor-
poration into our body polite any semi
barbarous races totally unable to appre-
ciate our system OF government, but he
did favor expansion.
WI Ting Fang. Chinese minister, was
the last speaker. He said:
China needs many things that are
manufactured by the United States. We
want your cotton goods and iron and
steel products. But you cannot expect us
to buy your products unless yra Uire va,
China wants the United States to do fair
~ with her.
'Tair dealing on the part Of the United
States would mean the admission OF nv
countrymen to the United States as free
" as immigrants from any other nation.
hope the association will call the atten-
ton OF congress to the injustice of the
Chinese exclusion act with view to re-
pealing 1t, so that my countrymen NAV
have tho rights of American citizenship
and become your countrymen."
Jutaro Komura.' tho minister from ia
pan. thanked the assemblago for the in
terest taken in the affairs Of the Orient