Evening star., 1905-08-31
HOPE TO END BOYCOTT
Markets Of China Being Con-
sidered by the Administration.
ONE EFFECT OF PEACE
DOOR TO TRADE IN MANCHURIA
WILL BE OPENED.
Friendly Cooperation of the Chinese
Authorities Expected-Reason AL
legged for Hostile Attitude.

The boycott of American goods by Chi
nese merchants is receiving great atten-
tion by the administration, and it Is like
ly that before long the President will take
a hand in the efforts to have the boycott
lifted in order that American trade can
continue expanding as 1t has done in the
last few years in the celestial empire. The
boycott coming practically at the moment
when the fortunes of war have assured the
open door for all time in Manchuria is re-
garded particularly unfortunate, al,
though no doubt is expressed that it will
be possible in the near future TO open the
usual channels of trade.
The part that has been played by Pres
ident Roosevelt in the settlement of a
peace between Japan and Russia is ex-
pected to bring about a friendly co-opera-
ton of the Chinese authorities in over
coming the boycott. The terms of the
peace settlement are everywhere regarded
as of the greatest advantage to China. The
result of those terms will be TO throw into
the hands of China railway property of
great strategic value. to free the country
from the relentless grasp of Russia and to
establish a degree of independence for
China that in the past has not been en-
joyed. The dismemberment Of China now
appears to be no longer a threa tening dan
ger. Had the fortunes of war been turned
against Japan there is little doubt that Rus
sia would have been established in Man
churia in a way that would have forever
lost that great country to Chinese sover-
eighty.
From the first the terms of peace have
been considered from the standpoint of the
best interests of China well as the de-
mands of both Japan and Russia. There
has never been any doubt that at all times
the influence of President Roosevelt has
been on the side Of friendly cooperation
with Chinese interests, and had any occa-
Sin .,iS.. for nj faa ing
Chinese interests no one doubts that it
would have been gladly given.
The result of the peace settlement has
been so favorable to Chinese interests that
ii is believed that government will be ami
mated by a spirit of coed viii toward all
nations and will do whatever is in its power
to assist in raising the boycott on Ameri-
can goods. Eut the question arises TO
what the government OF China can do in
order to assist in restoring the conditions
of coed viii that existed previous to the
present boycott on American goods.
Origin of Hostility to Americans.
The manner in which that boycL,- was
brought about, according TO men intimately
acquainted with those events, has never
been understood in this country. The Chi
nese merchants who attended the worlds
ia at St. Louis are charged with having
inspired the boycott and with having work
ed the people of China up to point OF open
protest against the manner in whicn Chi
nese are treated in this country because of
the immigration laws that have been en-
forced against them and because of the
methods that have been adopted in the past
for putting those laws into effect.
When the Chinese merchants arrived in
this country il is said they were astonished
to see that they were regarded in entire
ly different way from other exhibitors at
the fair They were questioned and, 1t is
declared, they were placed under a degree
OF surveillance which they readily saw no
other class of visitors suffered. They had
spent largely of their fortunes in order to
make their exhibits a success. Many of
them were men of great consequence in
their own country. They had wealth. and
We're accustomed to receive distinguished
attention Here they were made to feel
that they were not of race to be given
the consideration that was shown to every
other nationality. When they left for home
1t Is said they were very sore over the
whole affair
In China there are numerous guilds and
the very men who came to this country to
attend the worlds fair are the men who
occupy places, of great influence in the
guilds. They had the best opportunity to
describe to their .eountrymen the condition
that they met in the United States They
lost time in doing so.
The war of Japan with China was the
first means of awaking the people to
understanding of conditions outside of their
own country. Following upon that, the
Russo-Japanese war gave large part of