Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-18
Shall { lima Rule a Civilized Nation?


Shall China Rule Civilized Nation?
II turns out that the Chinese boy
colt is hut another partisan plan for
promoting "commercialism," the shib-
boleth of the Republican party, just
as the factories were closed in 1896,
and strikes have hecn promoted at
many times, to keep the incentive for
united elliott oil the moneyed power
always IN action and direct 1t As
planned by scliishness and greed.
\ Chicago dispatch Of the Sth states
that disclosures had been made re-
garding secret meetings OF Americans
and Cinnamon in that city, which
renders it certain that the movement,
with other organizations, has been ill.,
strumental in the initial part OF in
stitutiug boycotts in China against
American products. Chin PAX Sun, a
leading Chinese merchant, declares
that enforcement Of the exclusion act
has led to a systematic effort to COM
pei the United States to omit that pro.
vision in any future treaty which may
be made. The Chinese government is
being coached" by such organizations
all over the country, and they are
raising an immense fund TO control
matters at home and abroad Tin this
country for absolute freedom to inn
migrate, or emigrate, at will. The big
companies are subscribing their thou.
sands, while all adults OF nation OF
over 40O,OO0,OOO are expected to sub.
scribe at least 50 to the fund. The
first contributions levied in Chicago
we're phenomenal in number, and
quite an amount of the total was from
American merchants.
Some of these wrote to their agents
in China, stating the plan of opera
ton, and calling for active support,
and they at once began the campaign,
which Mr.. Roosevelt unwittingly aided
very much by his instructions for len.
iency of guards at the gates of our
foreign immigration. With an aver.
age Chinaman, to temporize is to &C.
knowledge weakness and presage de-
feat. The order, with the craft OF the
foxy nation to aid it, practically put
al end to exclusion. Any Chinaman
could enter with certificate, and any
Chinaman could get a certificate as
student, or merchant, if the Consul in
China relied solely upon q "killed
chicken OATH" and were forbidden to
examine the palm of the hands OF ap-
plicants.
The Chinese had no idea of the
boycott OF our goods till it was sug-
ges'ed by the same INSCRIPTIONS gang
who have robbed the people and piled
up their millions upon millions Of in.
dividual fortunes since the civil war.
The end is not yet in sight. But
we have an abiding faith in the integ.
rity, patriotism and courage of the
American people. They may be some-
what slow to grasp or acknowledge
the perversity of human nature, and
hard to awaken to consciousness of
impending danger, but they are not to
be doubted when imperative duty de-
mands resolute action. They are not
to be deprived of their birthright by a
presumptuous horde of idolators and
serfs, who readily adapt themselves TO
almost every form of handicraft and
can live on 1.-THE of the amount re.
quired to keep the Christian soul and
body together.
The Cinnamon of Portland are rails.
ing q fund of $4,000 in aid of the
movement, and already it has been
shown that civic bodies, in as staid an
old city as the Oregon metropolis, are
ready to unite with the disruptors of
social and business forms-to become
tho jumping-jacks of the wealthy cor.
morants of the larger cities. 1t is
we'll for the poor man, the individual
who has to support himself and family
by the toll of his hands, to watch
closely the progress OF events, and be
ready to aid organization which will
spring from necessity to curb the
swift trend towards oligarchical rule.
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