The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-06

. out. The stocks out of which Ameri- can citizenship Is to bS built should be strong and healthy, sound in body, mind and character. If it be objected that the Government agents would not always select well, the answer is that they would certainly select peter th1M do the agents and brokers of foreign steamship companies, the people who now do whatever selection Is done.
 The questions arising in connection with Chinese immigration stand by themselves. The conditions in China are such that the entire Chinese coolie class. that is. the class of Chinese la bor skilled and unskilled legiti- rnately come under the head of undesir- ahle 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 no desire that they should be ad- mitted. At present their entrance is 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 10 be in fnitesimal and can be entirely disre- g9rded, There is no serious proposal to alter the immigration law as re- gards the Chinese 1aborer skilled or unskilled. and there is no excuse for any man feeling or affecting to feel thos lightest alarm on the subject.
 Rut fin the effort to carry out the nn'fcy of excluding Chinese laborers, Chinese coolies, grave injustice and wrong have been done by this Nation to the people of China, and therefore ultimately to this Nation itself. Chin esq students, business and professional men of all kinds-not only merchants, but bankers, doctors, manufacturers professors, travellers, and the like should be encouraged to come here and treated on precisely the same footing that we treat students, business men. travellers and the like of other nations. Our laws and treaties should be framed not so as to put these people in the excepted classes, but to state that we will adim all Chinese, except Chinese of the coolic class, Chinese skilled or unskilled laborers. There would not be the least danger that any such pro- vision would result in any relaxation of the law about laborers. These will, under all conditions. be kept out abso- lutely. 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 suggested. EXanlna- { tons should be completed at the port of departure from China. For this pur- pose there should be provided more adequate consular service ill China than we now have. The appropriations, for the office forces ill the consulates should be increased,
 As a people we have talked much of ! tn opn door in China, and we expect, and quite rightly intend to insist upon, justice being shown us by the Chinese We cannot ask the Chinese to do to us 1 what we are unwilling to do to them. 1 They would have a perfect right to ex- cluae our laboring men if our laboring
 
 country in such numbers as to jeopar- dize the well being of the Chinese popu- lationi and as, mutatis muGandis, these were the conditions with which Chi nese immigration actually brought this people face to face, we mad and have d perfect right, which the Chinese Gov ernment in no way contests, to act as we have acted in the matter of restrict ing coolie immigration. That this right l exists for each country was explicitly acknowledged in the last treaty be- . tween the two countries. But we must
 treat the Chinese student, traveller and business man in a spirit of the broad est 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 1 the past summer from the organized l boycott against American goods which 1 has been started in China. The main
 factor in producing this boycott has been the resentment felt by the stu dents and business people of China, by
 all the Chinese leaders, against the i harshness of our law toward educated
 Chinamen of the professional and busi- ness classes.
 1 This Government has the friendliest 1 feeling for China and desires China S Nell-being. We cordially sympathize with the announced purpose of Japan ' to stand for the integrity of China
 Such an attitude tends to the peace oi
 the world.
 The Civil Service.
 l The civil service law has been on the 1 statue books for twenty-two years
 Every President and vast majority
 of heads of departments who have beer in office during that period have fay i system. The more thoroughly it's prin
 ciples have been understood, the great.
 CT has been the favor with which the l law has been regarded by administra. tive officers. Any attempt to carry or the great executive departments of the Government without this law would in.
 evitably result in chaos. The Civi
 Service Commissioners are doing excel lent work; and their compensation is inadequate considering the service they perform.
 The statement that the examinations
 are not practical in character is based
 on misapprehension of the practice of the Commission. The departments are invariably consulted as to the re.
 quirements desired and as to the char