Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-05
CHINESE IMMIGRANTS.
All Save Coolies, skilled and Unskilied
Iaborers Should be Admitted.

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 laborers'
skilled and unskilled, legitlmateIy
come under the head of undesirable nm
migrants to this country, because OF
their numbers, the low wages ror when
they work, and their low standard OF
living. Not only Is II to the interest
OF this country to keep them out, but
the Chinese authorities do not desire
that they should be admitted. Al
present their entrance is prohiblt-
ed by laws amply adequate 10
accomplish this purpose, These laws
have been, are being and WIZ De
thoroughly enforced. The violations or
them are so few In number as 10 De
infinitesimal and can be entirely as
regarded. There Is no serious proposal
to alter the immigration law as re-
CARDS the Chinese lahorer, skilled or
unskiled. and there Is no excuse Tor
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 !aborers.
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 profession
al men Of all lIinds-not only mer-
chants, but bankers, doctors, manufac-
turers professors travellers and the
like-should be encouraged to come
here and treated on precisely the same
footing that we treat students, busl-
ness men, travellers and the like of
other nations. our laws and treaties
should be framed. not so as TO put
these people I'm the excepted class, but
to state that We will admit all Chi
enese, except Chinese OF the coole
class Chinese skilled or unskilled la
borers. There would not be the least
danger that any such provision would
result in any relaxation Of the law
about la borers. These viii. under all
conditions, be kept out absolutely, But
II will be easy to see that both justice
and courtesy are shown, s they ought
to be shown. to other Chinese, If the
law or treaty is framed as above sug-
gested. Examinations should be COM
pieted at the port of departure from
China For this purpose there should
be provided a more adequate consular
service IN China than we now have
The appropriations, both for the Of
fees Of the consuls and for the office
forces In the consulates, should be In.
creased,
As a people we have talked much OF
the open door I'm China. and we expect
and quite rightly intend to insist upon,
justice being shown us by the Chinese.
But we can not expect to receive equity
unless we do equity. We can rot ask
the Chinese to do to us what we are
m n n
have a perfect right to exclude our
laboring men If our laboring men
threateped to come into their country
IN such numbers as to jeopardize the
well-belng of the Chinese population;
and as mutatls mutandis, these were
the conditions with which Chinese inn
migration actually brought this people
face to face, we had and have a per-
feet right. which the ChHese govern
nlent in no way contests, to act as We
have acted in the matter of restricting
coolie immigration. That this right ex-
lists for each country was explicitly
acknowledged in the last treaty
between the two countries. But we
must treat the Chinese student trav-
eler' and business man in a spirit Of the
broadcast justice and courtesy II we ex-
pect similar treatment to be accorded
10 our own people of similar rank who
go to China. Much trouble has come
during the past summer from the or
ganlzed boycott against American
goods which has been started IN China.
The main factor in producing this boy
colt has been the resentment felt by
the students and business people OF
China, by all the Chinese leaders,
against the harshness of our law to-
ward educated Cinnamon of the pro-
fessional and business classes.
This government has the friendliest
feeling for China aud delres China's
well being. We cordially sympathze
with the announced purpose OF Japan
to stand for the integrity of China
Such an attitude tends to the peace Of
the world.