Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-09
Chinese Exclusion.

In discussing the Chinese exclusion law.
Secretary MetcaIf of the Department of
Commerce and Labor says in his annual
report:
China offers a fertile field for American
products and American manufacturers, but
If the price to be paid for trade WIN
China is the unrestricted immigration OF
Chinese of all classes, then, in the interest
of American labor and American citizen
ship, we had better forego entirely that
trade. l believe that there are amend
ments which can and properly should DE
made in the present NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
which will in no wise weaken them, but
will remove the injustice and hardship, APP
parent or actual incident to their admins
tration. One of the chief sources or such
injustice has been the rejection, after ar
rival at our ports, Of those Chinese persons
possessed of cerufcation OF their right to
enter, both from their own and our gov
eminent The derials were necessarily
made because these persons. according to
their own statements. had imposed upon
the two governments and secured certit-
Gates by Misrepresentation.
The soundness of this proposition is not
open to intelligent objection We are not
soliciting trade from China, nor shall we
ever do so, on the basis of an open door in
the United States for coolie labor. That is
a price we could not afford to pay for even
the most tempting of the Chinese markets.
The Star expressed itself in these terms
months ago, and its views have been in
dorsed in many quarters. American senti-
ment on the subject, indeed, is overwhelm-
ing
And yet, understanding this sentiment,
and the supporting attitude of the admins
tratfon. announced both by the President
and his adviser in the Department of Labor.
spluttering continues in Chinese circles
k,ll
amend the exclusion law to suit Chinese
tastes Listen to Ny Poon Chew, the editor
of Chinese newspaper printed in San
Francisco and described as a brother OF
that guileless gentleman and ardent friend
of America, Mr WI Ting-fang:
THE war between Russia and Japan has
awakened China She now realizes that to
get her rights she must be able to kill the
largest number of people in a given time,
with the least cost to herself. In ten years
China will have standing army of Seo,eoo
men, well equipped and well drilled.
This is no threat. China will never be an
aggressive nation. Right follows might as
the logical effect Of cause. Lincoln once
said: Every drop of blood drawn by the
lash shall be avenged by q drop shed by
the sword But II will be in a commercial.
not in a military way, that China will be
avenged. In the future she will not submit
TO the insults to which she submitted in the
past"
This oriental blusterer has misread his
Lincoln, who was deploring every drop of
blood being shed, and was acting to avenge
nothing. but only to save the Union But
If no threat, why have mentioned that for
midable army of nearly a, million Of men,
rapidly taking shape and booked for bust
ness within ten years? What this fellow
would have us believe Is that, If we don't
watch out, China, when good and ready,
will move part of this force down to the
Philippines and annex the archipelago. and
then move the other part across the Pacific,
land at San Francisco, and bring us to our
senses.
1t is not only a threat, but a terrible one.
Those who have shudders to shud, prepare
TO shud them now.