Arizona republican., 1905-05-21
PHOENIx, ARIZONA. MAY 21, 1905.
china's Enmrty for the United States.


 telligent people generally are quite as
 hostile to the United States as would
 be expected if war existed between the
 two countries. The merchants at all
 the principal ports have agreed all
 ready to boycott all American goods,
 and the boycott proposition is being taken up with enthusiasm throughout the empire. According to the state ment given out at Washington on
 Thursday by Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, the Chinese minister to the
 United States. the boycott will soon be in such effective force that mot a yard of American cotton cloth will be sold in China" And strangely enough, this hostile feeling has been worked up by two eminent Chinamen who have been purporting to be especially friend ly to the United States-Wu Ting fang, the former minister to this coun- try and now a high official of his gov ernment at home, and the present min ister.
 This remarkable state of affairs has been coming to a head for several months. but only within the last week or two has it attracted attention in this country. The new and violent en- mity of the representative classes in China to all things American is due to a single cause.-the policy of exclud- ing Chinese laborers from the United States. Incidentally, Chinese officials complain of the unnecessary harshness with which the exclusion laws are en- forced, and as an example they cite an incident which occurred the other day in this territory. It seems that MT. Chow, the first secretary of the Chi nese legation at Washington, was trav- cling in a Pullma near on the Santa Fe road from San Francisco to Wash ington. and at Winslow h!s car was boarded by government inspector who demanded his papers as evidence that MT. Chow was rightfuIly in the United States. MT. Chow produced his card as first secretary of the Chinese legation, and protested against the in dignity, but the inspector rudeIy in formed him that his assertions would not go" and that he must furnish other papers or be held up. Of course, the Arizona inspector. whoever he was, proved himself an ass, and there can be no excuse for the gross insult of fered to the Chinese diplomat.
 But after all, Chinese objection to the method of enforcing the exclusion law is only an incidental matter; the f,f io is that we are excluding the Chinese and propose to continue excluding them, regardless of the fact that the treaty providing for exclusion has ex- pired. It will have to be conceded that i in taking this arbitrary course the United States is not acting as it would 1 in dealing with a European power or Japan, let us admit-but the Chi nese statesmen fully understand why it l is necessary for the American gov ernment to take matters into its own | hands, and they know we'll that the ! exclusion policy implies no lack of friendship for China as a nation. Both ! Wu Ting-fang and Minister Chentung ! Liang Cheng are men of rare shrewd- ness. and they keenIy appreciate the | importance which the people of the | United States attach to our growing | and enormous trade with China By | cunningly fomenting the spirit of com mercial hostility in their own country | and thus causing vast losses to Ameri- | can commerce, they hope to force con- sessions from our government and . open the door at least part way for | the immigration of Chinese coolies into | the United States. But plainly start ed as a game of bluff, there are evil dences that the movement is rapidly . assuming greater proportions than it's authors expected. and it is taking on a serious phase that cannot be ignored | by President Roosevelt. But whatever other outcome the situation may have, 1t ca be taken for granted that China will not succeed in bluffing Mir. Roose- welt and MT. John Hay.
 This sudden reversal of Chinese feel ing toward the United States empha- sizes once more the fact that senti- mental friendship between nations is such an evanescent thing as to be largely a diplomatic myth. Only few years ago Uncle Sam saved the nation al life of China The Boxer uprising and the siege of the legations in Pekin -an outrage at which the empress dowager criminally connived--would have resulted without question in the downfall of the Manchu dynasty, the dismemberment of the empire and it's partition among the powers of Europe, if 1t had not been for the firm stand taken by President Mckinley and Sec retary Hay. The American policy Of preserving China as an administrative