The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1905-11-08
HON. A. A. WILEY ADVOCATES
IMPORTATION OF COOLIE LABOR

visab1e to get Chinese labor here In
the South to raise cotton. corn. fruits
and vegetables.
Indignation Of Chinese.
Il cannot blame the Chinese" said
Representative Wiley, because they
feel indignant at the treatment they
have received at our hands. While
all other leading nations of the world
are striving to attract Chinese laborers
to their borders, the United States
alone puts up the bars against the
coolie, is industrious. law abiding,
gentle, honest and docile. Coolies
never register, never vote. never parti-
cipate In any way in our social or
political life. They do not aim at our
civilization and they do not attempt
to amalgate with our people, and they
are not a menace to our racial |integri-
ty and they recross the ocean when
they have amassed a competency, to die
in their native land and be buried in
the public cemeteries beside their an
cestors.
TN my Judgment more is to be
feared from the invasion of America
by the European surplusage of igno-
rance, poverty and crime than from
the yellow peril Old Japan Is pass
ing away and new Japan has emerged
most potent influence in galvanizing
into life the effete civilization of the
East.
Japs Lack IdeaIism.
THE Japanese are great people.
but they lack idealism. They have no
sense of abstract Justice or abstract
right. Commercially, they are not
trustworthy. The Chinese are incor-
ruptibly honest. Throughout the great
English and banking houses of Hong
kong, Canton and Shanghai, the posi-
| tions of trust are filled by Chinese
There has never been a single Chinese
defalcation and to break his word, to
be dishonest, means to the Chinese to
lose his face, to lose his credit, and
that means that he merits the dis
favor of his ancectors, becomes a lost
soul. barred from heaven and doomed
to fit from planet to planet-zan out
cast In the world.
Men who handle cash throughout
Japan--treasurers, cashiers, paying
tials. When China begins to develop,
and her wants increase. a trade will
be created across the Pacific like that
which nows goes across the Atlantic
Our economic cry ought to be, ION
to the tropics When the canal Is
completed as surely II will. connect
ing the two oceans. our route to the
Orient will be shortened by four thous-
and miles. II we of the South take
advantage Off on geographical position
we will discover in this land of ours
fair Ell Dorado.
VIII Hold the Philippines.
The Philippines ars ours by the
fortunes of war. Dewey's guns and
the treaty of Paris made them ours
And they are ours to have and to
hold.
"The Philippine question should be
elevated from the domain of American
PARTISAN political contention. be-
lieve they came to us under the provi-
dence of God and for the uplifting of
the nations. There should be no en-
barge on trade between the United
States and the Philippines.
1--WE of the South want to get our
share of the oriental trade. We need
cheap efficient and peaceful labor here
and with coolie labor we can UNDER
sell the world in raw material and in
the finished manufactured product.
We now make 100000 bales of cot
| ton and when China's six hundred mill
lions cease to go naked they alone
will consume fifty million bales. When
China discards the frock and the
wooden shoe England will get busy
making shoes and the South will get
busy raising cotton and manufacturing
lit
( Then surely will King Cotton sit
| upon his fleecy throne and absolutely
| sway the commercial world. Then
| truely will we of the South be able to
| say twenty cent cotton or no sale.