The Washington times., 1902-04-28


though they were free-born American
citizens. That this is the result of ineffi
cheney on the part of our Government has
often been a political party cry.
To state that Chinese duplicity is at al
| times a match for the white mans clever
| ness. is to locate the defect. 1t is all very
simple when it is told. To return here q
| man must possess a photograph OF him
SELF paper bearing the date OF his de-
parture and his personal description
| much on the order of NJ. Bertillon s
| method of Identification. evidence Of prop
erty here to the value of $1,000 and such
minor data as the Treasury regulations
in their wisdom have made necessary.
| Now the agents of the Six Companies
know how difficult it is to procure this
| paper and they go about its evasion in a
| truly Eastern way. Chinaman arrives
| In the harbor of San Francisco on board
| mail steamer, passes quarantine and
awaits his friend As soon as the Gus
toms officers have done with him a most
guileless brother from Chinatown up on
the hills mounts the deck. and going be-
! low places in his heart the true state of
affairs relative to the cleverness of the
| foreign devils and gives him a guide TO
outwit their cunning.
Coaches New Arrival.
The American translation OF all this is
that he tell the Chinaman newly arrived
that his name is so and so and that in
reply to this question and to that he is
to reply thus and so. The examination
before a United States commissioner sub
sequently develops from corroborative
evidence beyond the shadow of legal
doubt that Lung Wo or whatever his name
may be is a merchant in Hongkong and
sfa ttTalI dn ~ Ia, har,
act important business, and that he can
pay for his return and will return or re-
main here as business dictates. This is
all proven by his direct testimony and the
evidence or his firm in Chinatown, the
members Of which have been coached
in their replies as to the individual In
hand. The law takes its course and a
merchant. being free to come and go, the
coolie passes into the country by our own
system and with our legal sanction.
Boys come in as native born children,
and are sworn to by Cinnamon resident In
America. They state that they went to
China so young that they do not remem-
Der. but they are always able to give the
street number. the floor, the room. and
the family into which they were born and
became Americans.
immigration on Borders.
Of Mexico search OF the records will
show that Illicit immigration on a large
scale is daily in practice on both sides
Of the border. So scientifically perfect
and so admirable is this method of in
Producing Cinnamon here that Il Is al
most impossible to overcome it. sin
gle instance of their duplicity will serve
to illustrate. II a Chinaman is deported
because of fragrant Inconsistencies in his
testimony at the regular hearing he ap-
peals the case His lawyer searches. with
Government sanction. the records OF the
case. the questions are noted down and
mailed to China to guide the coming cool
les in their replies, inasmuch as the
questions asked are constantly changed
to trip the offender. This most treach-
erous work Is done entirely by Americans
who prey upon the Chinese trade OF this
character and who reap golden harvests
for their underhanded practice
The present Congress will doubtless en-
act that no Chinaman resident in the |
Philippine Islands can come here as an |
American citizen. otherwise the shrewd !
genius of the head of this organization of |
Six Companies would bring by each |
steamer arriving so-called citizens Of the |
United States drawn from a population /
Of over one million now resident in this |
lar away possession.
Policy of China.
The discussion in Congress Of so I'm
portant topic has produced for the
student Of the question most excellent
data for consideration. and from that
mass the selection Of two points will serve
as fitting close to this sketch Of the
situation. The policy OF China has never
been to send forth her people nor to toll
crate the sons Of other nations on her
own soil. Under the guidance Of Tanner
lane far back Into the first pages Of
Oriental history the people of China DEM
onstrated to the world what the coming
ages must inevitably bring when the peo-
pie of this c-ercrowded land sweep on
to other territory to dwell therein.
the entire history of the En-
pire the pages tell OF massacre after
massacre of foreign races deemed by the
Chinese inimical to their home interest
and detrimental to her own government.
One thousand years ago one hundred and
twenty thousand foreigners in her sea-
port cities were put to death, In 1923 all
in China were driven from
the country and churches turned to uses
the baseness of which was only limited
by the depth of depravity of the perpe-
traitors Of the outrage; thirteen years
later the crime was repeated. torture be- | :
ing substituted in many cases in place of
death. Each and every action of this
nature has been the direct result OF a
policy OF the imperial lNernment. and not ,
he action Of mob violence for such things
are little known to people OF their type
and eyenness of nature.
Break Down Traditions.
n ia today the noIics, nf tho DrOyre-sive |
,ations of the earth to break down tradI-
ions Of "Old China and in their stead
ound new world ideas. II this be done.
into other lands must in
,vitably follow. and with it hariships un
ireamed of by those who have never look
d at this phase of the question. Every
which other nations have made
With China has been a losing one. and the
United States is no exception. Under the
treaty Chinaman had the
lights of the American CONSTITUTIONS and
he freedom OF the land in return for
even open ports in China. and the paltry
rade that could be then secured at great | /
isk and hardship.
II the open door of China means the
utward iow OF her population in ex-
hange for the influx of Western wealth
nd commercialism. then history will but
epeat itself and record another losing
Xchange suffered by every land which is
1day striving to be first in the breach of Il
er walls, and first to fly its flag above
er inner city. 1t Is a problem of the
our. and the brains of China are not
lie nor the latent forces OF her colossal l
opulation so dormant that a settled pol
" in the hands OF a dominant leader i'm
led with the spirit OF aggression could
ot change the history nf fha III