Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-12-13

vene between us and our neighbors that I recommend that TO immigrants be al- lowed to come in from C~~- ..a and Mex leo save natives of the two countries themselves.
 In dealing with this question it is un- wise to depart from the old Ameri- can tradition and to discriminate against any man who desires to come here and become a citizen, save on the ground of that mans fitness for citizenship. It is our right and duty to consider his moral and social quality. His standard of living should be such that he will rot, by pressure of compe- tion, lower the standard of living of our own WE waee-workers, for it must ev- CT be a pri-He object of our legislation to keep high their standard of living. If the man who seeks to come here is from the moral and social standpoint of such a character as to bid fair to add value to the community, he should be heartily welcomed. We cannot af- ford to pay heed to whether he is of one creed or another, or one nation or another. It will be a great deal better to have fewer immigrants but all of lnG hlnOs Indn RACdt bA immigrants, many of whom are neces- sarily of the wrong kind. As lar as possible we wish to limit the immigra- tion to this country to persons who pro- pose to become citizens of this coun- try, and we can well afford to insist up on adequate scrutiny of the character of those who are thus proposed for flu ture citizenship. There should be an in- crease in the stringency ot the laws to keep out insane, idiotic, epileptic, and pauper immigrants. But this is by no means enough. Not merely the an- archist, but every man of anarchistic tendencies, all violent and disorderly people, all people of bad character, the incompetent, the lazy, the vicious, the physically unfit, defective, or degen- out of which American citizenship is to be built should be strong and heal thy, sound in body, mind, and char acter.
 The questions arising in connection with Chinese immigration stand by themselves. The conditions in China are such that the entire Chinese coolie class, that is, the class of Chinese la borers, skilled and unskilled legfti mately come under the head of undesir- able immigrants to this country, because of their numbers, the low wages for which they work, and their low stand ard of living. Not only is it to the interest of this country to keep them out, but the Chinese authorities do not desire that they should be admitted. At present their entrance is prohibited by laws amply adequate to accomplish this purpose. These laws have been, are being, and will be, thoroughly en- forced. The violations of them are so few in number as to be infnitesimal, and can be entirely disregarded. There is no serious proposal to alter the i'm migration law as regards the Chinese laborer, skilled or unskilled, and there is no excuse for any man feeling or affecting to feel the slightest alarm on the subject.
 But in the effort to carry out the policy of excluding Chinese laborers, Chinese coolies, grave injustice and wrong have been done by this nation to the people of China, and therefore ultimately to this nation itself. Chi nese students, business and professional men of all kinds-not only merchants, but bankers, doctors, manufacturers, professors, travellers and the like should be encouraged to come here, and treated on precisely the same footing that we treat students, business men, travellers, and the like of other na- tions. Our laws and treaties should be framed, not so as to put these people in the excepted classes, but to state that we will admit all Chinese, except Chinese of the coolie class, Chinese skilled and unskilled laborers. There would not be the least danger that any such provision would result in any re- taxation of the law about laborers.
 As a people we have talked much of the open door in China, and we expect, and quite rightly intend to insist upon, justice being shown us by the Chinese. But we cannot expect to receive equity unless we do equity. We cannot ask the Chinese to do to us what we are un- willing to do to them They would have a perfect right to exclude our la boring men if our laboring men threatened to come into their country in such numbers as to jeopardize the well-being of the Chinese population; and as, mutatis mutandis, these were the conditions with which Chinese i'm migration actually brought this people face to face, we had and have perfect right, which the Chinese government in no way contests, to act as we have acted in the matter of restricting cOolie immigration. That this right exists for each country was explicitly ack- nowledged in the last treaty between the two countries. But we must treat the Chinese student, traveller, and busi ness man Tn a spirit of the broadest jus tice and courtesy if we expect similSr treatment to be accorded to our own people of similar rank who go to China. Much trouble has come during the past summer from the organized boycott against American goods which has been started in China. The main factor III producing this boycott has been the re- sentiment felt by the students and busi- ness people of China, by all the Chinese leaders, against the harshness of our law toward educated Chinamen of the professional and business classes.
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