Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16
THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT
Proposed Boycott on American Goods
and the College Strike.
To the Editor of The Star,

| 10 the Editor of The Star:
That Old China is thing of the past and
| that New China is rising like young man
| approaching his majority. is easily seen by
| the interest taken in the new American
| treaty with China. For several years the
| United States has been known as the friend
| Of China; now oriental faith in her western
| ally has received a severe shock. Fed by
| kilograms, perchance from the six Chinese
! companies at San Francisco an anti-Amer-
| lean tidal wave has swept I'D the coast
| Meetings Of the Chinese chambers of COM
| merce have been held at the ports and of
| the foreign goods guilds in the interior
| cities, threatening to refuse to purchase
goods from the states, and letters have
| been sent from one college to another (un-
! der American controD advising a general
student rebellion.
On May 81 the first commencement at
the Southern Presbyterian Medical School
was held and the governor. lieutenant gov
ernor, superintendent of silk. chief Justice
customs taotai, project and some dozen
lower officials. besides an audience of 800
We're present. After refreshments were
served, forty or fifty prominent young men
from twenty-five to thirty-fve years of
age met to discuss the new treaty DR..
Park, who has great influence with the Of
fetal class. made them an address and I
followed. stating that recently travelling
In the thirteen states of the south | never
saw class of people better treated than
the Chinese. 1t was mentioned that the
missionary association would meet the next
day. and that the Americans-we are an
American colony-would be glad to consult
with them.
Yesterday, June 1, go of the merchants
and gentry met to discuss the new treaty
and 1t is supposed that pretty stringent
measures were suggested If the articles
of the treaty were not modified.
In the afternoon eighty of the younger
men came to the chapel on the premises
VI q no Ay,n -ia lyN-
we had pleasant meeting with them 1t
was the Americans in Soochow that pre-
pared the letter to Secretary Hay last wear
asking that kind reception be accorded
10 ChlneSe students who visited our coun-
try. This was signed generally by Amer
leans In China. Yesterday we sent a teIe-
gram to Mr.. w. w. RockhiIl, asking that
IT be insisted that liberal treatment be az
forded the Chinese visiting our shores
On next Tuesday, June 8, committee of
three Chinese gentlemen will meet Drs
Park. Hayes and myself, the committee OF
the missionary association, at my house to
consider the text Of the letter to be sent
to our new minister. The letter Will he
sent by the Americans, but the committee
of the merchants and gentry will suggest
what will be acceptable to the Chinese.
American trade in China has Just touched
the rim of a great country and it would he
a pity that a few ill-chosen sentences in
the treaty should drive American goods
from China and that other nations should
step in and reap the harvest that should
otherwise belong to the United States.
In ten years China will probably be one
of the great military powers of the world.
ana 1t is well for this fact to be remem-
bered In making the present treaty
l trust that The Star will give this oues-
ton due and prompt attention Today ts
the thirty-third anniversary of our arrival
in Cathay and as our children have either
returned or are preparing to return to en-
gage In missionary work in this land orr
long residence gives a lively personal
interest in this new treaty
HAMPDEN C.. DU BOSE.
Soochow, China, June ., 1905