The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-14
JEWEL THAT FAILS TO SHOW UP.


Away back behind the dawn Of all tradition before
languages were writ or histories recorded some philos
opher observant the mutations of affairs gave
race swipe which has proven standing rebuEe for
nations states classes and individuals alike all that
time since and by his simply remarkng: Consistency
thou art a jewel"
The politicians, at least such Of that tribe
Washington. representing and misrepresent
the dear people as congressman are as unanimously
numerousy demanding the renacment of the Chinese
exclusion law. This is doubt just a majority Of
those congressmens constituencies are demanding But
it illogical onesded demand. There is no Jewel
of consistency dangling from the Iobes or nose Of such
requirement The American thinks the Chinaman is all
right in his place that is. own country; but all
temporary resident Of this country That is
just the estimate by the Chinaman at his home
in China of the American. While the Cbinaman is many
times more numerous than the American for reasons IN
necessary explain, the American holds the power to
enforce his likes and diskes but the Chinaman does
not
If mob in San Francisco and in New York had cleared
out the Chinese quarters of those cities respectively and
for other than that racial dislike and there
uDon had the other powers all joined China and sailed
into Washington driving President and his cabinet
into exile Tennessee or Texas in the meantime footing
the city and despoiling the White House ending it all
with demand that Roosevelt should behead the governors
and also the mayors York and San Francisco and
four hundred millions Of dollars with interest for
expenses incurred by the allies teaching US that the
Chinese couldn't be fooled with America would then find
herself in the present pedament of China only that the
authorities of China have already whipped of the heads
of the leaders who didn't prevent their following from
disIiking Americans and acting accordingly.
1t is esteemed by many men of wide information that
the Oldest empire to civilization and numerically
the greatest that has existed must go to pieces in
sne effort TO meet the demand to carry the burden i'm
posed upon that government and peoples by the allied
powers, of which the United States IS one The young
Emperor and the Dowager Empress who had been driven
with their secretaries and assistants into the interior are
back, but back to what? To desecrated palace. to
looted city to distracted PROSTATE people back to
out the mandates hated foreigners and to raise
seemingly impossible sum Of smartmoney as an in
demnity
It is doubt wise at least polite to ignore con
suency by excluding the Chinese from the shores Of
this and prolific land wise and polite to demand the
pound Of flesh cut from nearest the Chinanans heart
Stil might God, to whom the Chinaran is as
much child the subjects Of King Edward and of
Emperor William. that when it comes to mans inhuran
iy to man" the enlightened and the most favored
are more than equal 10 the average heather Or in
other words. why has China the same moral legal
and religious right forbid Americans by law as the
Americans have to bar the Chinese: