The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-23
CHINESE BOYCOTT
PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS INTER-
 ESTS. FINDING THEIR TRADE HARD HIT.
Are Now Urging a Change in the Ex-
 clusiOn Laws-Justiee For China Is Now Demanded.
Henry Loomis Nelson in Boston Her

Henry Loomis Nelson in Boston Her
 aid.
 MT. Roosevelts efforts in favor of a more rational and more humane ad- ministration of the Chinese exclusion laws are not likely to be the only efforts that will be made in behalf of more friendly relations with China. The evils to which MT. Roosevelt seeks to put an end are not new. and have not been unknown to the authorities. The harshness and injustices of the inspection officers have not been with out the concurrence of their superior authorities. It has been supposed all along that not much solicitude was to be shown in behalf of Chinamen. and that not too much care was to be taken to comply with those provisions of the treaty and laws which exempted certain classes of Chinamen from the provisions excluding Chinese laborers from the country.
 It appeared to be the impression of the government generally that 1t was better to consult the Pacific coast vote than to satisfy the demands of jus tice for the Chinese. It is true that the law excluded only Chinese labor CTS, and that Chinese merchants. stu dents and travellers were to be ad- mitted to the country. and to be per- mitted freely to travel in 1t. Never theless. 1t has been the feeling of gov- ernment officials who had the power to determine as to who should Do excluded that the whole Chinese na- ton was to be kept out of the country if possible.
 The effort which Mir. Roosevelt is making to put an end to an intoler- able state of things which grew out of this feeling will not satisfy China. The order which he issued has not had the slightest effect upon the boy colt which has been established by Chinese merchants, both in China and elsewhere in the east. This boycott. on the contrary. has extended since the issuance of MT. .Roosevelt's order. Those Americans who deal with China, and especially those who are conduct ing the enormously growing Chinese trade of the Pacific coast. are greatly troubled by the attitude of China men, especially by their determine ton to put an end to commercial fn- tercourse with this country.
 The objections made by the Chi nese are not confined to the abuses of our law and of the treaty with China by our administrative officers. Their feeling of hostility 10 this coun- | try dates further back. nation can not take the ground which we have taken toward China and expect to re- !! main friendly with the nation of the excluded people. Chinamen. as 1t turns out, have feeling like other peo- | ple and this might have been realized
 by our people when the Chinese min ister. the one before the present rep resentative to this country made ms semi iocular. semi-serious allusions in
 after dinner speeches to our exclusion
 policy Those who had the pleasure
 of an acquaintance with Wu Ting
 Fang were perfectly cognizant or the fact that inc minister resented the ex
 clusion policy of the United States just
 as keenly as if he had been one of
 the rejected class himself. It appears
 that he has been the moving spirit
 of this boycotting since his return
 home. What boycotting means The
 Herald has explained. and the people
 of the Pacific coast fuily unoers'aho
 what will happen to the trade of the
 United states. and especially to their
 trade. if China persist in boxcotting
 Jour goods ~.