Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-21
Washinatun STANDARD
OILY NPlA. WASH.
FRIDAY EVENING. Jl'NE q. 1901.
The Chinese Plague Again Threatens.

The Chinese Plague Again Threatens.
The Little brown man Of the East"
Is becoming aggressive III his demands
!ur competition with thc wage Garner
oi ths country. His brothers already
here are preparing for an organized
fight 10 obtain an absolute repeal Of
the Geary exclusion act. by the next
Congress. \ petition signed 10y the
1900 Chinese in this country, and it
is claimed by many white American
citizens, is to be sent to the L. S. gov
eminent, asking that all restrictions
be removed to the influx Of Cinnamon.
Here is \ greater menace t. free Ia.
Dor than the trusts have ever imposed.
Indeed, 1t is the only factor needed to
make capital wholly independent cf
the wagc-earner, for no human being
can support and educate family ac.
cordlng to the methods of civilization.
on the meager earnings of labor when
brought in competition with a race
that can subsist on a few cents nor
day expended for the coarsest food
ana meanest raiment upon each indi.
vidual.
The Chinese organizer of this
movement, WI Tung Fang, probably
states the truth when he declares that
he has powerful American backing,
and alludes to the element in politics
which made the dinner.pail the SYM
Dol of all that is desirable in results,
as In sympathy with the movement to
bring hundreds of millions of a bea.
then race, who by centuries of grind
ing servltudc have acquired nerves of
steel, to compete with the Drawn and
muscle OF a civilized and God-fearinc
people.
1t looks as if the whole battle fought
quarter OF century ago, to secure
enactment OF the exclusion law, will
have to be fought over again, and
under more adverse circumstances.
The people had not then been brought
into such familiar contact with the
evil as to induce them to accept it as
matter of course, by the gradations
which the poet says Vice obtains hold
upon the soul. No better evidence is
needed OF this debauchery of public
sentiment than the result of the last
Presidential election, when the tend.
ency towards Capitalization of power
into the hands of the executive was
fully presented without resort by the
masses to the means of safety afforded
by the ballot.
The Chinese find much encourage.
ment from the attitude OF this govern.
ment in dealing with the allied powers
in the present crisis. That the Chi
nese leaders are endowed with superior
statecraft has been demonstrated
whenever our government has been
brought in contact with them. The
Burlingame treaty was full OF Confus-
clan loopholes, and the Geary act ex.
cludes only to limited extent, and it
is to save the cost of evading its pro.
visions that mostly concerns Fang
and his cohorts.
Unfortunately the intelligence of
the Chinaman is mainly gagged by the
servile class brought over to perform
manual labor, but even in them NAV
be discovered traits which display a
cunning that, with education and an
enlarged field of endeavor, would con.
stitute most valuable aid in shapinp
diplomatic matters. "John," in SER
vitude, may appear meek and subser.
Went, but this is only cloak worn to
advance his foxy objects. He is vim
dictive in nature, aggressive in his
methods, sly, cunning, treacherous,
and devoted to Mammon in all mat
tiers OF trade.
That the battle is upon US is shown
by the fact that weekly newspaper
has been started in New York, to uni.
fy and harmonic the Chinese resi-
dents in their campaign before Con.
gress. 1t publishes the exclusion act
and comments upon the fact that Ju-
Illus Kahn, of San Francisco, intends
to bring before the lawmakers a
measure to continue its provisions I'M
I'll 1929. A preconcerted movement,
through this medium, was inaugurated
in Chicago, this week, when probably
it will extend to San Francisco, and
thence all over the Coast, but fortu-
nately our people have been brought
into 50 close contact with the evil,
that they have little difficulty in de-
termining its magnitude. The plain
results arc presented, Invested of the.
Ory and sentiment, and from here
must flow much of the educational
work necessary to arouse the people to
the necessity of graphing with the
monstrous evil.
A CRANK by the name of Anderson
of Kansas City, has been creating
trouble in New York by claiming that
he is the husband OF Helen Gould.
He was sent to the insane asylum to
recover from his halucination, but on
release, like Gallileo. still firmly reit-
Grated the claim. 1t is probable that