Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-30
THE CHINESE
 EXCLUSION ACT.

THE CHINESE
 EXCLUSION ACT.
 One of the big questions which i. agitating this country at the present time is the Chinese exclusion act and the effect it's rigid enforcement ha. now and may have in the future. or American commerce and trade ir China The exportation of cotton and cotton goods to China has grown from almost nothing to s4o, ,0Oe, 900 in a few years. Other lines of exports to the celestial kingdoEs have shown very large gains. The American naanufac. turer is clamoring ;or an open door to the trade of China The American manufacturer has always been self. ish and in most instances, been ready to sacrifice the good of the people to his own profit and selfish ends. It matters little to the manufacturer of cotton goods in New England or the south if the Pacific coast and adja- cent territory is overrun with cheap
 
 Chinese life. if he can find a ready and 2 profitable market for a few more millions of dollars of cotton goods and other products of his shops The cry for more liberal immigration alws for the Chinese comes wholly from the manufacturers. The people of the Pacific coast don't want the ..lf4aanan at any price. He is men ace to this country and his very pres -ence exerts contaminating in fluence. It is impossible for him to amalgamate with the people of this country. He can not become a citizen land of the free his home and reside here permanently. Personally he is as objectionable as the negro of the south and if we must have cheap labor have him with us and while he is not as skillful as the Chinaman or as in. dustrious. he is by far the best cheap laborer in the world.
  in operation for more than twenty years At the time of its passage a perfect horde of orientals were streaming into this country, over drifting far back into the interior. The exclusion act stopped this uDholy in vasion at once and the flow of China men began to go the other way. There were at that time more than 9 quar- ter of a million Chinamen in the United States. During these twenty years this number has been on the gradual decline. Death has thinned the ranks of the yellow skinned sons of the east and a large proportion ot the Chinamen who were in this coun try have made their stake" and re turned to China to remain. In San Francisco. Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle the gradual decrease in the number of Chinese has been most notable. It is doubtful if at the pres sent time there are 50,0C0 Chinese ir the entire country, and the country will be infinitely better off wher these. too, have folded their tents like the Arab, and silently stoler away"
 The manufacturers, for years, have kept an outrageous tariff on al classes of manufactured goods b! their cry of protection to American labor" and they have filtched mill ions of dollars from the pockets o the people under the guise of tariff to enrich their own. It matters no to them how heavy the burden ol the shoulders of the people, just s' they get their pound of flesh. Nov they woAld throw wide open the door to the Chinese in order to get a feV more dollars of trade.
 We very much mistake the senti ment of the American people if the. cater to such a cry or agree to admi the Chinaman on any terms. Let thu door remain closed and barred to th' celestials of the east forever and 1 more stringent regulations wer' adopted in regard to immigrants iron other countries it would be bette and not worse for the country.
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