Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-02

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decided that 1t was not enough for stu
dent to show in his certificate that he had
come to the United States to secure uni
! versty education. That, in his opinion,
applicant. And students have been rejected
| whose certificates stated that they came to
study American methods of government and
| business. 1t was decided that such rea-
| son was not sufficiently definite
Diverted to Other Countries.
The viceroy of Sezchuen, when l was in
China last summer, had selected eighteen
| young men whom he wished to send to the
United States to study railway engineering,
construction and management, but he sent
them to Belgium and France, because he
| was afraid of their treatment by the GUS
! tom house officials at San Francisco.
| On the steamer fremont of the Northern
| Pacific line, upon which / came from ia
| pan last summer. were two young men
! travelling under the care of Prof. Harlan +.
/ Beach of Yale College. They are the sons
! of wealthy merchant in Shanghai. who
! gave each of them $1,000 taels to make
| tour of the world and expected them to be
| travelling at least three years. Their plan
| was to visit the st. Louis exposition, and
| spend year or two in the principal cities
| of the United States, studying our indus
| tries, commerce and methods of doing bust
| ness. At Yokohama they met friends who
had returned from the United States, and
! told them such stories of their treatment
| Dy the customs officials that they gave up
| their steamship tickets, changed their plans
| and started for Europe instead.
] You can hear plenty of such stories in
| China. and 1t will take long time to con-
vince the young men of that country that 1t
| is now safe for them to attempt to enter
| the Pacific ports of the United States. Be
| tween seven and eight hundred of the sons
| OF the best people of the empire, the future
| rulers or CHINA. who have hppn ma rtial ly oil
| ucated in the missionary schools, desire to
| complete their studies in this country, but
| are AFRAID 10 come. Every educational in
| st1tut1on In China, every United States rep
| resentative, every missionary and all who
| take an interest in this subject should be
| ADVISED that the administrat ton of the law
| is now more just and liberal, and that ii is
| possible for any honest student to come
into the country without being nsulted
| The Laws Requirements.
| Section of the exclusion law nrovides
that Chinese officials, teachers, students,
merchants or travellers for pleasure or Gu
rfosity shall be permitted to enter the
| United States, but in order to entitle them
selves to do so they shall first obtain the
| permission of the Chinese government or
other government of which they may at the
! tilhe De cltlzens or subjects. Such permis-
slon also their personal identity shall in
Sucn case be evidenced by certificate IN
De made out by the diplomatic representa-
| tive of the United States in the country. or
o. Sine Inc consular representative of the United
states at the port or place from which the
| person named therein comes The certiff-
oase shali contain full description of such
| person, OF MS age. height and general
! physlcai features, and shall state his former
| ana present occupation or profession and
Duplicate" ~ ii'ue Jul III
eu rarasraph 16 of the old regulations de-
nnes student as "a person who intends
| 10 pursue some of the higher branches of
STUDY, or who seeks to be fitted for some
Pai .iSuaar PROFESSION or occupation, for
winch iacIltleS are not afforded in his own
country" " ~ o"i
Secretary Cortelyou has modified that
| regulation so that now any person show .ng
evidence of an intention to seek an educa
| uon may come in, provided he has certifi-
| Gates properly made out and signed by the
taotaf or mayor of, the city in which he
! resides at home and the United States con-
| sui at the port from which he sails 1t IS
especially important that these certificate
be made out exactly as the law requires
| for great deal of the trouble and annoy
ance complained of has been due to- care
lessness, or technical defects. which the
immigration officials cannot overlook A
| certificate signed by the Emperor of China
would be worthless, because the law does
not recognize him as competent in such
cases, and his certificate would not be ac-
cepted.
The Luella Minor Case.
| This technicality was the cause of all the
| trouble in what became known as the
Luella Minor case, which attracted great
deal of attention and caused a heated dis
cussion several years ago. In 1902 Miss
Minor. who is an earnest, Jealous mission
airy in China, brought to the United States
two young men of unusual distinction. One
of Them Fay Chi Hao, is the son of a
| druggist at Tung-chow. He is a graduate
| of the North China College, near Picking.
! and was teaching in the province of ShenSi
when the Boxer troubles broke out. He
| distinguished himself for his courage and
devotion, and saved several missionary
families from massacre.
The other young man, Kung Hsiang Hsi,
| is a direct descendant of Confucius, the
great Chinese sage, and was educated at
| missionary school in the province of Shansi.
During the Boxer troubles he, too, defended
the missionaries with great bravery and
loyalty and lost all his own property.
These two young men, having received
an indemnity for their losses and suffer-
ings in the Boxer rebellion, decided to spend
the money in completing their education
in the United States, and Miss Minor, being
about to return to her home, took charge
of them. In order to impress the customs
authorities with their Importance, and to
secure special attention, the certificates
were made out and signed by Lii Hung
Chang, and when the young men arrived
with Miss Minor in San Francisco, they
were rejected because they were not signed
by the taotai as required by law.
Broke Bonds.
Miss Minor and others who were interest
ed in the young men were very indignant,
but the officials insisted upon the strict
observance of the law. After much discus
sion the officials agreed that kung and Fay
might remain in San Francisco If they
would give bonds not to leave that city
until they could send their certificates back
to Tien-Tsin and have them amended.
This was agreed to. but Miss Minor, who
felt that a great injustice had been done,
persuaded the young men to violate their
parole and their bond, took them across
by the Canadian Pacific and tried to secure
admission at Malone, in northern New
York The whole party were arrested and
held up.
Through powerful influence they were
permitted to come to Washington, where an
investigation was made, and long discus
sion occurred Fay and Kung were finally
admitted and when last heard from were
at Operlin College, pursuing their studies.
Miss Minor has never been willing to
acknowledge her mistake and has written
a book in defense of her folly. She cannot
understand why it is not right to violate an
unjust law but she furnished the advocates
of exclusion with a powerful argument
against trusting missionaries and other adj
yocates of the free admission of Chinese.
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