Arizona republican., 1905-12-06
JOINT STATEHOOD IS ORDERED
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Sible. Provision should be made Tor the Surer punishment of those who in duce aliens to come to this country un- der promise of employment. It should be made possible to inflict a Suffi- ciently heavy penalty on any employer violating this law to deter him from taking the risk. It secmSs to mo wise that there should be an international conference held to deal with this ques- tion of immigration, which has moro than a merely national significance; such a conference could among other things enter at length into the methods for securing a thorough inspection of would-be immigrants at the ports from which they desire to embark be- fore permitting them to embark.
 A STANDARD OF FITNESS.
 In dealing with this question it is unwise to depart from the old Ameri- can tradition and to discriminate for or against any man who desires to come here and become a citizen, save on the ground of that mans fitness for citizenship. It is our right and duty to consider his moral and social quail ty. His standard of living should be such that he will not, by pressure of competition, lower the standard of liv- ing of our own wage workers; for it must ever be a prime object of our legislation to keep nigh their standard of living. If the man who seeks to come here is from the moral and social standpoint of such a character as to bid fair to add value to the communi- ty he should be heartily welcomed. We can not afford to pay heed to whether he is of one creed or another, of one nation or another. We can not afford to consider whether he is Catholic or Protestant, Jew or Gentle; whether he is Euglishman or Irishman, French man or German, Japanese, Italian, Scandinavian, Slav, or Magyar. What We should desire to find out is the in- dividual quality of the individual man. In my judgment with this end iri view, we shall have to prepare through our own agents a far more rigid in spection in the countries from which the immigrants come.
 THE CHINESE.
 The questions arising in connect ion with Chinese immigration stand by themselves. The conditions in China are such that the entire Chinese coolie class, that is, the class of Chinese lab Orers, skilled and unskilled legitimate ly come under the head of unc asir- able immigrants to this country, be- cause of their numbers, the low wages for which they work, and their low standard of living. Not only is it to the interest of this country to keep them out, but the Chinese authorities do not desire that they should be ad- mitted. At present their entrance is to prohibited by laws amply adequate to accomplish this purpose. These laws have been, are being, and will be, thoroughly enforced. The violations of them are so few in number as to be infinitesimal and can be entirely dis regarded. There is no serious proposal to alter the immigration law as regards the Chinese laborer, skilled or unskilI- ed, and there is no excuse for any man feeling or affecting to feel the slight est alarm on the subject.
 But in every effort to carry out the policy of excluding Chinese laborers, Chinese cooIies, 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 profes- sional men of all kinds-not only mer- chants, but bankers, doctors, manufact- urers, professors, travellers, and the like should be encouraged to come here and treated on precisely the same foot ing that we treat students, business men, travellers, and the like of othe nations. Our laws and treaties should be framed, not so as to put these peo- pie in the excepted classes, but to state that we will admit all Chinese ex- cept of the coolie class, Chinese skill ed and unskilled laborers. There would not be the least danger that any such provision would result in any re- taxation of the law about laborers. These will, under all conditions, be kept out absolutely. But it will be more easy to see that both justice and courtesy are shown, as they ought to be shown, to other Chinese, if the law Or treaty is framed as above suggest ed. Examinations should be complet- ed at the port of departure from China. For this purpose there should be pro- vided a more adequate consular ser vice in China than we now have. The appropriations, both for the offices of the cOnsuls and for the office forces in the consulates, should be increased.
 As people we have talked much of the open door in China, and we expect, IlSHlly tIltIlu lO lISiSI up on, justice being shown us by the Chinese. But We cannot expect to re- ceive equity unless we do equity. We can not ask the Chinese to do to us what we are unwilling to do to them. They would have a perfect right to exclude our laboring men if our lab bring men threatened to come into their country in such numbers as to jeopardize the wellbeing of the Chinese populations; and as mutatis mutandis, these were the conditions with which Chinese immigration actually brought this people face to face, we had and have perfect right, which the Chinese Government in no way contests, to act as we have acted in the matter of restricting coolie immigration. That this right exists for each country was explicitely acknowledged in the last treaty between the two countries. But we must treat the Chinese student traveller, and business man in a spirit of the broadest justice and courtesy if we expect similar treatment to be accorded to our own people of similar rank who go to China. Much trouble has come during the past summer from the organized boycott against American goods which has been started in China