Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-12
'cELEsTIALs NAME THEIR TERMS
FOR RAISING AMERICAN
BOYCOTT.
INSIST. ON NEW TREATY
WI Ting Fang, Former Chinese Mini
ster to the United States, Declares
That the Boycott Will Not Be Raised
Without Concessions.

CHdlu per OF commerce at that
place is powerless to stop the
boycott Of American products and
that the Chinese students control
the situation.
Pekin, Aug 10.-China demands two
important concessions from the United
States as a price for lifting the boy
colt now in force against American
commerce and ships. These two con-
cessions are:
First-Fair and courteous treatment
OF Chinese merchants, tourists and stu
dents when visiting in the United
States.
Second-The admission of Chinese
laborers to Hawaii and the PHILIPPINES
without restrictions.
The foregoing demands were out
lined by WI Ting Fang, formerly Chi
nese minister to the United States and
now vice president of the Chinese
board of foreign affairs.
Insist on New Treaty.
WI Ting Fang, in his interview said
that the existing resolutions, for the
exclusion of Chinese from the United
States were unsatisfactory from the
Chinese standpoint, and hence it was
desired that they should be modified
by new treaty. The Chinese, he said
agreed to the exclusion of coolies, but
the existing regulations pressed with
severity on other classes. He instanced
the cases of merchants, travellers for
pleasure, students, and others VINO,
while nominally admissible to the
United States, were forced to undergo
examinations which were exceedingly
Objectionable on account of the man
ner in which they were made.
"a superior Chinaman arriving at
San Francisco, for example" said Mr..
WI, "is detained by the authorities
while his credentials are being exam
ined, and this detention frequently in
wolves consorting with a low class of
coolies in a common shed. He is un-
able to communicate with friends and
is subjected 70 indignities to which
Americans would refuse to submit.
Moreover, he is not allowed to retain
the services of any one to protect his
interests, and if t--o immigration au-
thorities decide against him there is
no possibility of appeal.
THAT these grievances are we'll
founded is demonstrated by the neces-
sity for President Roosevelt's strin-
gent order that courtesy be shown the
Chinese by the immigration officials
under pain Of dismissal. There have
been numberless instances of harsh
treatment which the Americans them
selves have been forced to admit"
Mr.. WI admitted that European i'm
migrants were not allowed represen-
tation by lawyers or others during
their examinations, but he rejected
this argument because, he said. the
Chinese in other respects were given
treatment entirely different from that
accorded tho Europeans.
The Chinese government, he said,
agreed to the exclusion of coolies, but
Il urged as the main points of a new
convention that the better classes of
Chinese be treated on an equal foot
ing with other aliens, with the right
TO retain counsel and the right of APP
peal If necessary and the admission
of coolies to Hawaii, which he re-
garded as Of the utmost Importance
Hawaii was greatly in need of la
borers, Mr.. WI said, and since the
Chinese were excluded the industries
of the islands had suffered. AT all
events the Chinese there could not
compete with American labor.
The Philippines he sair, had long
been natural field for Chinese indus.
try but the application of the exclusion
acts to the islands had changed this
Regarding the desirability of Chi
nese labor in the far east Mr.. WI in
stanced the prosperity of Singapore
in the Straits Settlements, and the
adjacent country.