The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-12

| '" The speechI of Congressman A. A. ] Wtley on "Extension of Our Foreign 1 Markets" delivered before the annual meeting of the Alabama Commerciai
 aa4 lndustrial Association Tn Decatur
 last Tuesday has occasioned such wfde-
 spread interest that 1t ia herewith pup
 liahed in full.
 In a speech delivered to the cotton growers of Montgomery County Eriday Colonel Wiley declared that he dtd not advocate the importation of coolie iapor
 in his Decatur speech.
 The full text of Colonel Wiiey's
 speech in Decatur is as follows:
 MT. President. pelesates to the Ala Ala | Ladies and Gentlemen.
 | When Benjamin H. Harrisqp was making his first race for the exai.so
 uttered Da soms .remarsaSie truths in cred to visiting delegations at indiana polls. during that memerapie eS n . palgn; one of wnicn saaay He said, amongst other things. that Wnne sis .he l Democratic Party was concerning ltss.. a.
 about doctrines" the Eepupnacanr t acaarksts.s FIX Although his criticism was not alto gether Just, and the whole case may g not have been quite fairly stateo Gs him, at the time referred to; yet n,s aSt,nss No country HssaS ean Ss prosperous without marketa.a is so undeniably true as to pc axiomatic--a self-evident proposiuon, apprehAnd, therefore. that U VIII Hot day. to sustain that proposition before this intelligent and wide-awake audi ence of cotton growers and factors. manufacturers and practical business Triu to the Orient.
 My trip to the Orient. during the past summer, was taken under most ravora- ss and Tes sse tiss Paesasnss snaa dsnss ter headed the party was potentiat so ii respect to the Far East. This save SsadislossD it aaS SSrosisns o apoa the srSana sWhiie ipSI I Appreciated greatly Governor Taft's invitafion to become member lis rseens Itinerary to the Philipplnes. | would hot have felt Justified. owing to the large personal pecuniary outlay, in accepting tne courtesy. brt Tor s my ccott. as an efficient factor in reducing the price of southern cotton. ! went 1 to Chira mainly to study this question. Notwithstanding the fact that Sne teristic seal has undertaken to redress
 Srasion nsasss agents sntsnN at New York. Washing.
 ton. New Orleans. San Francisco and and clusion act, in such manner as to show | the widest, friendliest and heartiest courtesy towards all their merchants,
 o sss nssd as ssasss as ws
 as towards ali Chinese officials or rep- resentatives In any .governmental capa.. city, yet 1t is manifest that, in spite or tnis promps rcads is going on l fiercely in the Southern parts or Cnina 1 from Tientsin around to the Federaieo Malay States and to the Straits Settle vsrtised that the Empsror's cabinet at Pekin have already notified the Viceroy of the Canton provinces that the boy colt must cease, or with his head ne s1s ns Ess sss, sss psnass soaTsss of obtaiuabie, that the duress will son- tinue with unabated fury until Con. gress shall make some modineatson x; 9t that rigorous law. which IS SC ophc~i- e4s Cemmerciai Dafseuasaes.
 While it is not necessary for me. on this occasion to express ytin any tna,siaIni stlii 1t Is apparent. the Chinese boycott or American goods and Southern cotton menaees such serious consequences 70 the exercise of, the sober .'second thought" of the best men of our coun- try-patriotic. non-sectional non: par tisan. broad-gauged American citizens ---in fading some solution of the dif1- culties which now beset our commer- ciai pathway in the East:
 President Roosevelt. in his recent us that the bulk of our cotton goes to Asia; and he further hinted that matter of vital interest and importance to the South was the question of having desirable Mongolian laborers assist us and vegetabies. This. suggestion. t Is true, he made indirectly by saying that common equity and fair conduct be- tween two great nations demanded that we should deal honestly and justly with Chine on thS from thi boasted Hand of the free and the home of the brave"
 I frankly confess. gentlemen. I can not blame the Chinese for feeling some what indignant on account of the ill., treatment they have constantly receiv- ed at the hands. both of the American Congress and certain immigration olii- sponsibiiity of enforcing the provisions of the anti-Chinese law: While all the nations on the face of the earth are trivlns t3 sesEre tsem as clsss as being the most obedient, the most faithful, the cheapest. the most reliable. as we'll as the most honest toiiers with
 in the experience of mankind, and the
 gentlest, most docile and efficient do-
 mestic servants in the world. we find that Congress some years ago at the dictation of Dennis a haerney @ ,i ana sd tne Sal, law to shut out the coolies, but offen- sively designated them by name as be- ing unworthy to land upon our shores to come even on a visit into our midst. The Labor Question.
 Today the naked question of labor has become serious one in all sec