Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-16

come When this nation must cease TO hold
20 tue doctrine that all men are born free
and equal, and must cease To be, as IL has
Deen Claimed to be hitherto the asylum of
the oppressed Of other nations then a re-
suictiou of immigration beyond what we
now nave on our statute books Is demanded
Bat let us remember that we have vast do
mains unoccupied and vast resources uude-
veloped. l cannot believe that such a time
mas come The very enlargement Of our
DOMAIN enlarges our needs. The new mines
OF gold OF copper, OF silver, Of iron have
called 10 them new workers and an in
creased abundance OF supplies Every ad-
vancement in the line Of civilization in
Guiding labor-saving machinery has brought
10 more needs more luxuries aud has pre-
pared adequately for more consumers Yet
II our most consdeTate and conservative
statesmen think that the hour has struck
for cutting off all foreigners from partici-
pating in our citizenship and its privileges,
let It be done by treaties carefully drawn
with impartality and with laws which are
essential to a proper execution of the
treaties
In the last six months il is evident that
we have lost largely in our Chinese trade,
not only on account Of the disturbed con
dition of things in China, due to the great
war, but also on account Of an unfriendh-
ness on the part Of our people as shown in
our own laws and in our execution of them
toward the Cinnamon of every class who
are now in our midst, and toward large
numbers who ought to have the right, ac-
cording to the terms of the law itself, to
enter this country. Our relations with
China have been most friendly, in a general
way, so far as the attitude of our admins
trations is concerned. Surely. now, for
every conceivable reason that frieudiness
should be continued. 1t is plain enough
that if our Legislators so fear a reduction of
votes as to pass exclusion laws OF the
severest kind, and to put up something
worse than Chinese wall around our Re.
public, then indeed the large Eastern trade,
which the commercial world is hoping for,
will be lost. If we treat China as Arson
Burlingame taught US TO do, after the man
ner Of the most favored nation then will
China be constrained TO treat us in like
manner. Her immense population grad.
ually taking on the appliances of civiliza'
ton will give us an increasing market
which other nations cannot rival, because
we are so near Should there be no kindly
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States and China, there will be but little
trade and our own home workers, especially
those among the manufacturers, mast suffer
the loss.
In the moral field, If the Chinese are to be
chustianized or uplifted according to our
ideas there must be abundant opportunity
for assimilation The reason there has
been thus far so little assimilation has been,
given the Chinaman no right to enjoy here
the fruits of his labor, and which have pos
itively denied him in spirit aud letter, our
privilege of citizenship. Prejudice and uu-
friendliness will. Of course, check and
hinder, If not absolutely prevent, assiniila-
ton Many Cinnamon that know became
citizens Of the United States before the pas
sage of the Geary law These have without
exception behaved we'll and shown them
selves worthy, frugal and industrious peo-
pie I know, furthermore, several families
that have grown up in spite Of the prohibi
tiop of citizenship-families which have be-
come IN every way American The children
have gone into our schools and youth have
graduated from our academies and colleges.
A Chiuaman Of Portland, Oregon, who had
been with us more than twenty years and
bad paid many dollars into the Treasury of
the United States, and had done his duty
admirably, according to the testimony of
his neighbors, asked me why he could not
be allowed the privileges of a citizen He
declared that hundreds OF worthless men Of
other nations, after a short residence in our
land, had been 50 favored, but that he, with
out any apparent reason was Disseminated
against.
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, In published
letter, remarks: IT the nation that has
boasted of being the birthplace Of freedom
is to prove its worthiness to be free, it must
extend the same liberty to others that is
claimed for itself" He recalled the words
Of Lincoln, They that do not grant liberty
TO others are unworthy Of 1t for themselves,
and under just God cannot long retain It,. "
great many facts have come to my knowl-
edge where Cinnamon have been seized
kept in prison, cruelty treated, and, I am
credtably informed, have been mulched of
their money and property And this was
done avowedly In the execution OF the
stringent exclusion laws of our country
This pains my heart The soldiers did not
fight for such results as these, and feel
confident that our Representatives and
Senators now in Congress will very
thoroughly consider the whole matter, If il
be called to their attention, before they will
again pass any law aimed against the Chi
nese nation or against any other nation on
the globe.
Loyal and patriotic officers and intelligent
visitors coming back from the Philippines
say that the most faithful friends we have
had in those islands since the commence
ment of the Filipino rebellion have been
the Chinese. When Il was impossible to
get horses OF mules, and when the boats
upon the shallow streams were insufficient
for transportation, Chinese workmen, two
hundred in body, have carried the burdens
upon their backs and brought the necessary
supplies Of food and ammunition to our
troops. How suicidal is the policy of ex-
cluding such workmeu; particularly when
they are the most reliable and the most
loyal of all the inhabitants of the country
Of our occupation.
know 1t is said by men who are preju-
diced against all Cinnamon that they have
quietly and surreptitiously worked their
way into the heart of Luzou, and that they
have done their work with diligence and
success until they have acquired dominant
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