New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-17
CHINA NAY USE FORCE.
W7iu Watch Funeral of Europe, Says
Editor-Dr. Eliot Speaks.

Boston Dec is-In an address before the Eco
nornjc Club of Boston last night President Charles
w Eliot of Harvard, speaking Immigration,
said that the labor unions were the source or al
the agitation for labor exclusion. The Americans
who have got into the good trades want to keep Out
| ali the newcomers from those trades" he said
Have wages fallen in the last fifty years or risen:
Yet immigrants have been coming by the millions.
Our laboring class-if may such term
hold very unnannerly opinion about the new
| eomers," he continued They have not confidence
enough in their superiority resulting from their
own advantages. We ought to have profound
confidence from own experience this soil
OF the trustworthy effects of freedom for man
We all OF pretty content with the results of
the immigration of the last eight generations. 1t
has been the source OF our civilization and Of our
ideals.
THE only possible doubt about the present i'm
migration contrasted with the former is this: Are
the races that are coming sound physically.
morally and mentally as the races that have come
since 1872? There is good deal OF race and re-
ngious prejudice in the matter Men say: Can we
digest this mass of Roman Catholics? Well, we
have digested many millions of them, and they have
turned out humane excellent citizens. What race
have We digested with more difficulty than the
Irish? Yet in President Roosevelt himself there are
two strains OF blood. one Dutch and the other
Irish"
He went on
What zsl say Of the yeIlox race r Last week week
IN an attempt was a6e 70 GFaw cfss
Chinese and japanese, implying that these racer
from us in such degree that they could not be-
lived with-and ali we want to know about a race
lived in China replica thar that nation had produced
a high civilization when the ancestors OF every
man in the room were living in fur clothing in the
wilderness.
the japanese are IKE See what ar exhibition they
have given in physical strength and power in
taught the English how to night naval battle. No
surgeons of any fleet in the world ever made such
Of Togo's feet. And witness the INTELLECTUAL in,
eigf ia the Gonduct OF de sruggle ana the noIal
ience TO conceive OF excluding japanese from this
T 5eGanss Of their 4n s he enforced
never has been enforced and ought to ne
induced to come here from Switzerland His
was LOUIS AgsSsiz his hnportSon was OF Course
of the local teachers. He afterward brought his
owner of the largest producing copper mine in the
world. Not very bad for an immigrant who came
mere by lnduceInent'
Mr.. Ng Poon Chew, the Chinese Editor, OF San
Francisco. at the same dinner made forceful
of the Chinese Exclusion law. declaring
Il to be unjust and nonsensicaL
In ten years China he said, will be able to
resist with force all attempts of the United States
accord to other nations. Might makes right in
these days and it is the nation which kill the
with the least Isl po s es to hesf f6s
respected and honored China will be in that posi-
Gle by one by one 1t is this hope Of grand and
chinamen now bear with equanin1ity disgrace and
at the hands OF the so-caled great
I'm ten years We shall have constitutional gov
elf ~ be sending deputatons to study the s forms
of government OF other countries; In the last
ous hundred. Her future advance will be even
greater, and then shall be able to speak to the
United States with the voice of strength and au-
-hority'