The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-08
Speech is Feature of Meeting
 at Decatur
CONSUL WITTAM IS SPEAKER
President c. p. Lane Adds to Merrl- ment and Thinks Good Roads Question Is of Great Mo-
 ment In Alabama.
BY SEYMOUR RANSOM.

Decatur. November T.-(Speeial.)-In a speech made here this afternoon at the eleventh annual meeting of the Alabama Commercial and Industrial association, Representative A A. Wiley of the Third Alabama district. in discussing "Exten- sion of Our Foreign Markets" came out emphatically in favor of so amending the Chinese exclusion act as to admit coolie labor into the United States, saying frankly that the introduction of such labor would promote friendly commercial rea- tions between the Orient and this country and advance enormously the material well fare of the southern states.
 Representative Wiley's address was easi- ly the feature of the meeting In opening his speech Colonel Wiley quoted former President Harrisons apothegm that While the democratic party was always troubling itself about doctrines the repub- lican party was continually worrying it. self about markets" With this he did not altogether agree, but he was certain that No country could be prosperous without markets
 Cannot Blame the Chinese.
 
 Continuing he referred to his trip to that he accompanied the secretary of war and the Presidents daughter. every door was thrown open to him and he enjoyed every possible facility in studying the situation at close range.
 "The Chinese boycott is going on rig orously in southern China" said Colonel Wiley, 'and it is going on in spite of the immigration officers to be less severe in their inspections at American ports and in spite also of the fact that the Emperor of China has ordered his viceroys in China to behead persons engaging In the boycott
 "The boycott will continue with una bated fury until Congress snail so modify the Chinese exclusion law as to satisfy the Chinese.
 Domestic labor and foreign markets are twin questions. President Roosevelt was right when at Montgomery he told us that the bulk of our cotton goes to China, and he was right also when he hinted that it would be advisable to get Chinese labor here in the south to raise cotton, corn, fruits and vegetables.
 Cannot Blame the Chinese.
 q 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 bor- ders. the United States alone puts up the bars against the celestial The Chinese laborer, the coolie, is industrious, law abiding. gentle, honest and docle, Cooles never register, never vote, never part- cipate in any way to our social or politi cal life. They do not contaminate our civilization and they do not attempt to amalgamate with our people and they are not a menace to our racial integrity, 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 ancestors.
 Tn my judgment more is to be feared from the invasion of America by the Flu fopean surplusage of ignorance, poverty and crime than from the yellow peril. Old Japan is passing away and new Japan has emerged from the chrysalis and has become the most potent influence in gal vanizing into life the effete civilization of the east. The Japanese are a great