The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-25
NO DANGER OF A
. CHINESE BOYCOTT
Government Attorney Says Agita-
tion of Such a Step Is Most
ly Buncombe.'
COOLIE IMPORTATION
rs GOOD BUSINESS
Persons Interested in Removing
Exclusion Laws Have Started
the Boycott Scare.

Mostly buncombe,' said John L.
the boycott proceedings Of the Chinese
merchants. Mr.. Lott was in Mime.
apolis today and visited the Offices Of
the Chinese and immigration inspectors
in the federal building. He is on his
way to Washington after trip. thru
the Hawaiian. islands and California
the immigration service of the depart
ment of commerce and labor. Mr.. Lott
left Mr.. Sargent in California and Wis
tied Oregon and Montana.
A"There are many people who are in
terested in letting down the Chinese
exclusion bars and they have succeeded
in raising quite scare. The importa-
tion Of Chinese coolies has been very
profitable, but a rigid attendance to
duty by the government officers has
almost checked the smuggling. The
men interested in bringing in the coolies
regard it as importing any merchandise
and naturally favor a move to do away
with the exclusion laws. The steam
ship companies would reap a profit, as
laborers. The cost of bringing them to
this country is almost nothing.
'The special feature of the latest
| agitation is the bringing up Of stories
of the discourteous treatment Of Chi
nese princes and merchants by customs
officials, etc. This is also buncombe.
1t is probably hoped that the agitation
aroused by this scare may spread. To
anyone who has been at the ports it
appears rather queer, to say the least.
The Chinese are not made to suffer by
the customs inspectors any more than
any one else. Of course the trunks are
inspected, but SO are Americans.
| Grounds for Suspicion.
| "There are reports which have been
spread broadcast of the treatment of
certain merchants. Well, when the
Chinese inspectors question a China
loused and look as if they had never
seen shoes before, and his back is sun
burned and worn with ropes, and he has
no knowledge Of business whatever, is
lit ..wonderful If the inspectors rather
suspect that his certificate is forged
and that he IS a 1aborers On the wit.
mess stand SO many stories are mixed
that it is no wonder. that the inspect.
ors are sometimes inclined to doubt
i con the Pacific I met several
men returning from China who have
} been conducting business with the biz
merchants there. They have found but
very 1lGCi0 eV1utuC0 VI UOyOOGL cAOSP'
in a certain amount Of talk. I also
met one man who said that the whole
agitation could be traced down to two
men, one white man and the other q
Chinaman. They had been disap
pointed in certain deals which they hac
, attempt to carry thru in San Fran
cisco, which had been checked by the
federal officers.'
Japs Leaving Hawaii.
When asked about the labor situa
,, ton in the Hawaiian Islands, Mr.. Lot
did not say what the solution might be
; He said that the Japanese were leav
: ing rapidly, 1000 having left i,
= the past month. At present there ar
= about 10000 Japanese on the islands
| 10000 Chinese, $4,000 Kanakas an
a 10000 whites. Owing to the exclusion
:. acts no more Chinese can be ADMITTED
and as the sugar plantations are pros
a porous there is hard work to get men
In the work in the plantations it 1
found that the Chinese can cut abou
one and one-half times as much can
| as a Jap, but in loading the Jap ca
t load about one and one-half times a
= much as Chinaman. It Is the desir
: of the plantation owners to secur
2 equal numbers of the two nationalitie!
9 but unless Chinese immigration Is a
e lowed that is impossible. -