Evening star., 1901-02-11
THE CHINESE QUESTION
AS AFFECTED BY THE NEW SOW
EREIGNTY OVER THE PHILIPPINES.
Exclusion of CelestiaIs "a Necessary
Step in the PacificatiOn of the
Islands by United States.

The following extract, reprinted from the
editorial correspondence of The Star from
the Philippines, published few months
ago, bears Interestingly upon the question
of Chinese exclusion from those islands,
raised by Minister WI in his letter declin-
ing an invitation to dine with General
Otis:
Our ultimate purpose with reference to
the Fiipinos will determine our wisest pol
icy in the labor problem. If it is conceiv-
able that we should in the end abandon in
despair the idea of working in partnership
with the refractory F'ilipinos, and should
devote ourselves exclusively to the task
of amaSsing the greatest possible profit
from the productive soil of the PHILIPPINES
regardless of the welfare of their present
inhabitants, we would in that event do well
to flood the islands with several million
Cinnamon. These invaders, gradually de-
priving the natives of the means by which
life is sustained, would destroy the F'ilipinos
more completely and more surely than the
largest army and the strongest navy which
We could send against them.
If, on the other hand, we succeed in con-
vincing the Fiipinos that our interests are
identical with their own, and that our de-
sire is to move forward hand in hand with
them to the development of the islands and
into an era of common prosperity our pol
Icy will be to shut out for the present the
threatening Chinese flood and so to regulate
incoming labor in the future as both to pro-
tect the people of the Philippines in their
opportunities to secure life-sustaining work
and to develop to the fullest extent the
resources of the islands, a task essential
to the welfare of both Filipinos and Ameri-
cans.
In The Star of January s. 1900, was pub
lshed a statement of Mr. WI Ting Fang
the accomplished Chinese minister at
Washington, which intimated that exclu-
sion of his countrymen from the Philip
pines would engender a harsh feeling
among the people of China toward the
United States, and asserted that develop
ment of the abnormally increasing trade
with China was undoubtedly due to the
friendship which exists between the two
countries and that it surely would con-
tinue to grow, providing nothing occurred
to disturb the present feeling of the peo-
pie of his country for America.
The Chinese Minister'S Threat.
The yelled threat in this statement is
sufficiently obvious Chinas trade with the
United States and the friendly feeling upon
which the Chinese minister says that it
is based developed in the face of the fact
that the United States had excluded the
Chinese from the entire republic, without
the excuse of military necessity or expe-
diency, and even regardless of treaty stip-
ulations. If a trade-increasing affection
was born in the Chinese after this exclu-
sion in an offensive manner from the
United States, 1t might be expected to sur
vive a like exclusion from the Philippines
And especially would this expectation be
reasonable when it is considered that the
Chinese who come and who wish to come
to the Philippines are from south China
(Amoy and Canton) while the bulk of our
increasing trade is with north China. The
two sections are not quick to make sacri-
fees in each others behalf. The Pekin
government is not strong in Canton. South
China did not work up much fighting en-
thusiasm against Japan or rush to north
China's defense, even when Japan's chok-
ing hand was at the latters throat. If the
north Cinnamon find it to their interest to
trade increasingly with the United States
(and Russia permits) they will not be apt
to cease to do so because some Of their
beloved brethren of Annoy have been COM
PEELED to stay at home instead Of abandon
ing their country for Manila.
Contrast of American and Spanish
Policies.
The Chinese minister, in reproachful COM
parison between American and Spanish
policy, says: Under the administration of
the archipelago by Spain Chinese were al
lowed to freely enter and depart from the
| islands,
The records of the Chinese in Manila, as
given by Foreman, show that in 1903 the
Chinese were first goaded into hopeless re-
| volt and then slaughtered, about A,OOO be-
| ing killed or taken prisoners
In 1889 the Chinese again unsuccessful
| ly revolted against official robbery and op-
! preston. During this conflict an edict was
| published ordering all the Chinese in the
| provinces to be slain
In 1850 there was another rising Of thss>