The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-24


| government in dealing with China
since the Boxer outbreak. that the
! present is a good time to cndravor to
secure the repeal of the Chinese en-
cluson law. and the throwing of this
country wide open to Chinese immi-
grafton.
The Geary exclusion law will ter
inmate next year. Congressman
Kahn of San Francisco will introduce
into the house of representatives.
next winter Il bill to extend the pro-
visions o. that law for twenty years
| longer The New York Tribune of
Saturday reports an organized move
| inert started among the Chinese II er
| chants III that city to obtain its entire
repeal.
This movement was started only a
fe" days ago, yet "withn the next
two weeks every one CT the fifteen
tauusand Chinese here, lin New :-ork. }
will bc asked to sign a carefully pre-.
pared memorial. TO the United States
government asking that the exclusion
act be repealed, and protesting in the
strongest terms against It's extension
till 1!222.' Philadelphia Chicago. Port
land. Seattle. san Francisco and other
cities having large Chinese con;ing-
ents will send in similar memorials
all to Represented through Minister
WI 1inc-fang.
Further. it appears that these
Chinese already in America believe
that thousands of Americans are op-
posed to the exclusion act and they
propose to ask Americans to sign n
petition to grant the Chinese free ad-
mission to this country. This petition
"Chincsa lawyers and students are
now ,<,awing up" The Chinese con-
sui general in New York. Chow Tsz-
chi. has been talking very freely and
confidently of the movement to the
New York Tribune. lie complains
that the Chinese want" very much to
come here ITO settle dowr ana become.
property owners, taxpayers, and pos
sosscd of tul suffrage Yes, Amcri-
cans have known for 81 good many
years that the chinese "Want" these
things, and they are precisely the:
thircs that the majority of Americans
in 40 wise agree with them would he
desirable; even though these New
York Chinese ,arc sure that many
thousands of Americans want free
admission for all the multitudes of
Cinnamon eager to come in to this
as the land of promise" for them.
Consul Chow complains that "liungar-
ians, Poles, Germans, Japanese and
Irish can come in" The comparison
of these immigrants with Chinese is
unfair, If the Japanese can come in
AT least they have not heen, ana are
not now, eager to swarm in by the
millions.
Consul Chow declares that "innuen-
tlal Americans in The South" tell him
the SCuthelnerS desire the Chinese
"to como in and turn the great marsh
es al the South into rice lands, and in
other parts to build up great tea gar
dens." We very much Goubt any such
desire among Southerncrs in any num-
ber either in the Black Belt" or out
side it. They already have one race
problem on their hands.
But the New York Chinese are in
absolute earnest. AS an organ of
their movement they have started a
weekly newspaper, THE Chinese
Weekly Herald" Through its influence
the organization of the movement will
begin in Chicago. during this present
week. The whole movement is the
definite result of the American record
in China since the attack on the Legal
tions.
The alarmsts Will not succeed in
soaring the country into "A panic be-