The San Francisco call., 1905-08-16
]. w. Davidson Tells
How Trouble
Started.
Wong Kai Kah Gives
China S Side of
Affair.
Both Arrive From
Orient on the
Mongolia.

[I1o1S TIE Passengers who arrived yes
tercsy from TIE Orient On the liner Mon
Eo-z were Two uen who know probably
as much about Chfns's sntI-Auericau
Boycott as anybody outside of the direct
tlSuSators CT the taboo One OF these IS
: y. Davidson who has been Acting
United States Consul AZ Shanghai and
the ether Wong Ezi Kzh. who was ore
ot C1tnz's conmisstouers to the St. Louis
Exposition and who Is row here as a
trade couUizstouer Both r-er occupy
high o6c-zI positions and each appears
70 oe frankly wiling 70 tel AL he knows
about the situation
Davidson for a eng tine was Consul
a. EorUosz- Shortly before the begin
ing q The RUsso-Japanese var he was
appointed CoEsuI az Antung IN Msnchu-
r-G- he cid not arrive IN the Orient how
eVer, U1rI rEo weeks after the war had
begun. and his new post was right in the
r1lcE CT JaPsr's whirIElnd advance On
Az1ch-rlz- Davidson never got there
ard when Goodnow was removed from
e1aZghs- Davidson was ordered 70 that
pert as Acting Consul General He now
holds the sppci1ru as Consul AZ DzI-
~. ard would Be there now rad not an
arrzck q ryphoid fever made II ueces-
szry fer hin u make q trip home for his
health
BoYCOrT-S ORIGIN.
T1e boycott vas started says David
so1- after tie receipt II Shanghai OF 4
cab-eErsn from Chinese IN WsShfzgton
% & native newspaper This czbIezrsu
stated that the United States had pre-
pared new treaty. embodied II which
was exclusion Of Chinese from America
CE e wholesale sczIe- Not only Izborers
were % Be kept cut Of the land OF the
1se hut also Chinese merchants stu
dents ard rtce
Tie .ueTs Travelled fast Throughout the
E1Elcu- Wherever 4 native paper was
published there was printed and cfrcu-
Lzred 2 copy q this czbIegrzm- and with
IN few weeks after the publication the
Merchants ard Students throughout the
and we're holding uass-uesCngs- The
suggestion of 4 boycott cu American
goods fell upon fertile sol. and the move
5ueut .soou assumed alarming proportions
The Chinese Government oEicisis, de-
clzres Davidson did al they could 70 ar
resi- the movement, but without any def
ur-e Uu6erstzcdf1g with this GOTeCzDeqt
70 hack their Arguments their Efforts
arzlIeS little
~As Z natter of fact said Davidson.
ne Chinese merchants want 70 do 5Usf-
q ness with the United States, and I do not
think they INTENDED this boycott move
ueur &c &C as far as II has. The boycott,
lE li-A
Coriperirors n the Far East Germans.
French BeIEtzrS- English and others are
uou rating The Chinese merchants On
rhe bzek and advising them &c 90 ahead
Ard pzy Uncle San hack fer the huu1li-
arfors he has hezped upon them through
. his method q enforcing the exclusion act
We welcome you n cur land. they say,
we treat you with the courtesy and dig
nlrV FoUr exalted staten demands and
sg natter oE face OF Self-respecC. you
-sHouId trade with Is rather than with
thfs land where you are al treated as
q coclies
WHAT OTHER LANDS DO.
In BEGUN and N other European coun-
tries there are Governueul-appcInt
cs,u-r-issfous specially to receive and look
after s1ch Chinese students and uer-
Giants As visit The Old World Their visit
Is made pleasant as possible fer them.
znd when they return to China later Il Is
10 these places where they have been
Kindly treated that they turn t0r their
I7cororfves steel rails and ether things
fhsr are growing II demand IN Z China
whf-r Is zeerfng wider and wider awake
Woux EzI Ezh Is 4 graduate C Yale,
"a. ard the fezven q the traditions OF his
49,. mater has worked hin into a Prsr-
" good Aueric2n-
.F--s away" he said to the newspaper