The Cairo bulletin., 1905-10-21
CHEERING CROWDS
GREET PRESIDENT
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| it is such men who have brought the
| word politician into discredit. There
are other men who use the noxiouc
phrase business is business as an
excuse and justification for every kline
of mean and crooked work; and these
men make honest Americans hanG
their heads because of some of tho
things they do. 1t is the duty Of every
honest patriot to rebuke in emphatic
fashion alike the politician who does
not understand that the only kind OF
practical politics which nation can
with safety tolerate is that kind which
we know as clean politics, and that we
are as severe in our condemnation of
the business trckery which succeeds
as Of the business trickery which fails
L The scoundrel who fails can never by
any possibility be as dangerous to the
community as the scoundrel who sue
ceeds; and of all the men in the coun-
try, the worst citizens, those who
1 should excite in our minds the most
contemptuous adherence, are the
men who have achieved great wealth
or any other form Of success. in any
save a clean and Straightforward man
ner"
| "At present our market for cotton
is largely in China. The boycott of
cur goods in China during the past
year was especially injurious to the
cotton manufacturers. This govern
ment is doing, and will continue to do,
all il can 10 put a stop to the boycott.
But there is one measure to be taken
toward this end in which | shall
need the assistance of the Congress. |
We must insist firmly on our rights; |
and China must beware of persistng |
in a course of conduct TO which we |
can not honorably submit. But we
n our turn must recognize our duties !
Exactly as we insist upon our rights. |
We can not go into the International |
court of equity unless we so in with |
lean hands. We can not expect Chi
ma TO do us justice unless we do China
justice The chief cause in bringing
about the boycott of our goods in Chi
IA was undoubtedly our attitude to-
ward the Chinese who come to this
country This attitude of our does not
Justify the action of the Chinese in
the boycott. and especially some of
the forms which that action has taken.
But the fact remains that in the past
We have come short of our duty to-
ward the people of China 1t Is our
clear duty, i'm the interest of our wage
workers. to forbid all Chinese of the
coolic class-that is laborers skilled
or unsllled from coming here, The
greatest of all duties is national self
and the most important
step in national self-presenyaton is
to preserve in every way the we'll
being Of the wage-worker. ! am con
WINGED that the wen being of our wage
workers demands the exclusion of the
Chinese coolies, and it is therefore
our duty to exclude them, just as it
would be the duty of China to exclude
American laboring men if they be-
came in any way a menace to China
by entering into her country The
+ ght is reciprocal, and i'm our last
treaty with China il was explicitly rec
Dgnzed as inhering i'm both nations.
But we should not only operate the law
with as little harshness as possible,
nut We should show every courtesy
and consideration and every encour
lgemont to all Chinese who are not of
The laboring class to come TO this
country. Evary Chinese traveller or
business man or professional
man, should be given the same right
IF entry 10, and the same courteous
treatment in. this country as are ac-
corded to the student or traveller, the
business man or professional man of {
any other nation Our laws and treat
les should be so framed as TO guaran
lee TO all Cinnamon save of the ex
nepIes coolie class, the same right Of {
entry TO his country ana the same
treatment while here as guaranteed
% citizens of any other nation BY
executive action ! am as rapidly as
possible putting stop to the abuses {
which have grown up during many
years i'm the administration of this
law. | can do a good deal. and viii
10 a good deal even without the action
If the congress: but ! can not do all
hat should be done unless such action
Is taken. and that action ! most earn
.stly hope will be taken