The Washington times., 1902-04-28
Absolute Necessity for a Strict
Exclusion Law Prevails.
WAYS OF Willy CHlNAMEN
A Sketch of Americas Dealing With Res
idcnts of the Orient and the Outcome
of the Various Treaties and Legisla-
tion-Action Necessary.

sent after il TO eliminate the evil one.
According to those familiar with the
! question, Chinese immigration into the
United States, the situation may be di-
agnosed In similar manner and the in
coming Celestial likened to the dragon
devil. who has caused uneasiness and dis
I order in the system of our body polite.
| The spread of the popularity called Yellow
Peril is not confined to the North Ameri-
| can continent nor to our own day. as a
brief review of the history of China will
readily show
1t is not now, nor has it ever been in
the memory of man. the policy of China
| to send forth her people to alien shores,
| but the immensity of this mass of hu-
manity, constantly on the increase. sends
to the remotest lands each twelvemonth a
fraction of its aggregate which. in proper
tion to the land visited. is alarmingly
large. History takes us back to the time
when Central China was the whole of
| China. The Philippine Islands we're the
| first lands to be affected by this overflow,
and the history of immigration there for
| three hundred years back furnishes ample
\ ground for the assertion that once started
/ in a certain direction the people Of China
/ will always continue to migrate in num-
I bers more or less material to the newly
4 settled territory.
Three hundred years ago, when there
were but 500 Spaniards in the Philippines.
there were 20.000 Chinese. The Spaniards
became afraid of them, and with firearms
and ancient muskets wiped them from the
face OF the islands by absolutely destroy
ing them. Thirty-three years later the
records OF the captain general of the ISL
ands showed Chinese population OF over
&c. 900. a second bloody wal. of exterfni
nation repeated the work SO thoroughly
done scarcely a score of years before. and
: subsequently exclusion laws kept their
number down for many years to about
5000 all told Today there are over 90,-
600 Chinese in the city OF Manila alone.
Siam Is overrun, Formosa is practically
Chinese, in the island of Java there
100 coo. and twenty-five years ago in far
distant Cebu reliable estimates placed the
Chinese population at l40. 900. China has
not been aware of the departure of these
people, for her increase in population,
based on the almost countless millions of
inhabitants, has more than covered the
deficit. II is an astonishing but never
theless authentic statement that the Chi
nese population of the Pacific coast has
come entirely from the province OF Quang-
tung which has an area of 5000 square
miles and a population of 100000. Sta
tisticiGns figure that a proportionate out
flowing of natives at the rate calculated
in 1850 would. II including all provinces.
place upon the Pacific coast about 15.000,-
600 Chinese. This is all the more forcible
when considered in connection with the
fact that it is most decidedly not the poll
icy OF the empire TO let its people go
from within the limits of its territory and
that such immigration is more or less IL
lcit and secret even today.
immigration to America.
When the warships of England forced an
entrance into China's harbors and opened
to the world her ports. California was
the property OF Mexico. and little known
save as valuable land coveted by the
United States and sought by British ag-
gressiyeness. Ten years later it was
American soil. and gold had made 1t the
FL Dorado of the restless population OF
the entire earth. Among those who came
thither in the year 1850 were twenty
Cinnamon. who had been captured in an
open port of China. taken as slaves TO
Peru in 4 slave ship. ard escaped to the
gold fields on an American sailing vessel
Gold could not hold the m. and. finding
their way back TO their native land, their
tales of wealth brought others to the
slope. and thus initiated that insidiuus
building up Of an alien commonwealth in
the midst OF a community so radically
different in every possible element of its
civilization. Their arrival at the Golden
Gate steadily increased from year to yeaS.
until, had not exclusion laws been passed
the question wonld have been settled by
the Chinese. and the Americans left 10
migrate elsewhere. Restricted as they are
at the present time. they have today sum
cient numbers within the Golden State
to play most important part In the COM
merCial and industrial world about them.
ana to dictate prices under certain cir
cumstances in such paramount questions
as wearing apparel and vegetable food
for the poorer ,lasses of whites. inasmuch
as they control the production of these
commodities.
Dwellers on the Pacific Coast are daily
living face TO face with these conditions.
and are fully awake TO their danger and
the difficulties confronting them. but in
all fairness to the Eastern mind. II should
be plainly stated that a comprehensive
view OF the situation is only obtained by
an actual survey of the material rela-
tionships existing and the personal in
spection of the communities affected.
The influx of Chinese. contradictory as
1t may seem, Is almost the direct result
of the work OF Americans. California
newly settled. was unlike any other coun-
try or community in the United States.
and conditions OF life under the almost
feudal management of the vast estates
demanded cheap labor. The Chinese were
the solution to the problem. and in they
came en- masse to work in the orchards
and on the estates Land was divided in tn
vast tracts instead of small parcels as in
the East. the products of the peculiar soil
and climate required handling only at
seed time and at harvest time. and again
the Chinaman solved the problem. When
the trans-continental railroad was built
al the close of the war those who would
have worked thereon because of idleness
at the cessation of hostilties found
themselves supplanted by 0rientai labor.
imported by the builders OF the road
Their work done the coolies remained.
scattering through the mountains to seek
gold and found camps and small Chinese
towns. and to operate the fisheries of the
Coast.
When the railroads began to place upon
the Pacific Coast these of the East who
came to seek new homes and new for
tunes and this element of the population
steadily increased, the inevitable happened
and the issue was raised concerning labor
competition. The Asiatic was absolutely
impregnable in his position; he could un-
derbid the poorest white man; he would
sleep in n straw bed in the harvest sea-
son and save the price OF shelter and his
rice coming from China and It's purchase
returning thereto. but an infnitesimal
proportion OF his earnings went back to
the community. The Caucasian in contra