The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-11
COLONEL WILEY SPEAKS
 TO THE COTTON GROWERS

Colonel Wiley. who had been invited to speak before the association yester- day.
 Colonel wiley's Speech.
 Beginning his address the eloquent Congressman said that he wished to congratulate the members of the South ern Cotton Association upon their sig nal success in protecting the price of cotton. He said 1t Was the natural result Q concert of action and the same result has been proven in the instances of other organizations all over the country.
 The speaker had decided to give the conclusions he had reached on several phases of our Oriental trade that had been reached while on his trip of three and half month sto the Far East with the Secretary of War and his party. He said he was indebted to his constit- uents to give them the results of all his observations that were made on the tour which he made at the outlay of large personal expense.
 T never studied any subject harder than what we went to study in the Orient" said Colonel Wiley. Our journey lasted about three and a half months. It was made under the most favorable conditions. Everything was suspicious. We were. as you know, headed by Secretary Taft and Miss Roosevelt, the Presidents daughter, and this opened up every avenue of in- formation and observation that we needed to learn of our real relations with the tradesmen of the Far East. We made our studies, therefore, on the ground floor, as it were, and ought to have gotten at the real bottom of all the facts.
 The Chinese Boycott.
 foI well-known Chinese boycott of Ameri- can goods that was on in the Celestial Kingdom and is on now. As for my self l was particularly interested in what were the relations of the boycott to the cotton interests of the South. I carried letters of introduction to some Of the highest financiers and business men in China. This gave me the op- portunity to talk with them freely and you. my friends. the boycott is on fu- riously in China and there is no mis- take about that. All the talk to the contrary is very untrue"
 The speaker went on to say that the boycott is prevalent in China, and es- pecially Southern China, despite all ef- forts up to this time to abate it. He gave the opinion that the bars against American manufactured goods will not be abated by anything that can be done under the present Chinese exclusion act He believes that 1t is incurable except by the passage of another and more generous law by Congress. He said tho instructions of President Roosevelt and his own personal zeal to get the boycott mitigated have availed practically nothing. Only re- gently the President instructed the inn migration authorities at the ports of the United States and all her islands to place the most liberal Interpretation on the exclusion law that is possible. This, according to Colonel Wiley is be- ing done to great extent, but in the eyes of the Chinese it does not amount to the redress of grievances that is needed.
 CelestiaIs Inexorab1e.
 The heat of the boycott, according to the speaker, is to be found in the Malay peninsular. in Tien Sien and inl the settlement states. He said that in- terventions have been made by a few of the viceroys of the provinces at the instance of Americans. but that they helped but little.
 Colonel Wiley and others of the original Taft party separated from Miss Roosevelt and the rest who went to the capital of China to see the Dowager Empress and other members of state. He could not speak for what was said or done there, but said he could read very interestingly from report of what was said in the temple given by the famous correspondent, Lafayette Young, who was in that wing of the party. This he did and the report told of an interview which Hon. Bourke Cochran had with ex-Minister wu to the United States in which that in- Huential plenipotentiary unqualifiedly defended the boycott. This was read 70 show the gloomy aspect of the whole as regards American trade with the East.
 Ridicu1ed MetcaIfe.
 Secretary Metcalfe, of the Department ,f Commerce and Labor, was ridiculed 'y Colonel Wiley for his announcement