The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-07
.HEFL|N TALKS ON CHINESE QUESTION Favors a Square Deal" With
 the 0rientaIS SPEAKS AT GREENVILlE Jokinely Says He Made an Address to "Fifteen Acres of People"-He
 ereets Old Friends at
 the Capitol.
SPEAKS AT GREENVILLE E

Montgomery. July G. Special )-J. Thomas Hehin, congressman from the Fifth district, is in the city today and spent several hours with his old friends at the capitol, where he served so long as secretary of state. He made speech at Greenville on July 4. to fifteen acres , of people" as he jokingly expressed it.
 MT. Hefiin is much pleased with the general condition of affairs. but is not talking much politics just now When asked if he was going to help out in tine campaigning in other sections of the state soon, he replied that l.e had as much as he could look after in the Fifth. How ever, it is known that he is always ready to help out the party if it comes time to do such things.
 .a'ks on Gaines Question.
 Congressman Hefiin spoke as follows in an interview on Chinese Question"
 T am for square deal with China, but I am opposed to her pauper and criminal classes coming into our country The California dictated exclusion law does not hold out to China the hand of fair treatment and good will that this na- tion extends to other countries. Secre- tary Metcalf of the Department of Com merce and Labor, who has direct super vision of the immigration bureau, is him self a Californian and was a member of Congress from that state when he was appointed to the position he now holds It Is reported that he does not believe that unnecessary hardness is used in the enforcement of the law.
 We know that on the subject of Chinese immigration California has oc- cupied the stage for a number of years and the law which now so offends China was dictated and passed at the instance Of California Now, then, California man is in authority to administer that law and China threatens to sever her com mereial relations with the United States. If the threatened bo.'cott is carried out it will be q serious blow to American trade; it viii injure most of all the cotton growers anu cotton goods manu- facturers in the south.
 Our trade with China In cotton goods alone for ten months of the present fiscal year has aggregated twenty-one millions of dollars, as against three millions for the previous fiscal year. China with her 400000,000 of people will ultimately be the chief market place for our cotton. China Is waking up; she is no longer the helpless China of the Boxer period. The Chinaman is coming to realize not only that he has wants that must be gratified in order that he may live at al but wants in the way of wearing apparel that must be gratifed in order that he may live decently and wortbily.
 Nearly every industry except the cot ton industry, Is protected by a protective tariff, and now that Congress is not in session and the President may use his good office, he has a fine opportunity to put into practice his square deal" doc Urine and deliver the cotton growers and manufacturers from threatened boy colt on the part or China and to assure China that America is still for friendly relations with all nations and entangling alliances with none.' 1"