Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-03-16

mercial, social and political power t
be reckoned with in our already CON
plicated body polite. Shall he come
Is there no danger because he is intel
ligent? The answer is found in hi
conduct and influence in the Orient
He is the money changer in bank.
railway and steamboat offices, hotels
the comprador for contractors an,
syndicates and wherever trusts.worth
mess is needed there is the inteliigen
Chinaman; he is the merchant an,
tradesman and is so successful tha
few can compete with him. Shout,
these "intellectuals" be permitted
free ingress they would work the great
est injury to the ambitions and oppor
tunities of young educated, capable
and aspiring American men; CONNER
cialism is quick to recognize abilit,
that hires itself at small wage.
1 am emphatic in the assertion afte
witnessing the almost universal EN-
ployment in the Orient of the educated
Chinaman that his presence in thi
country would be most detrimenta
and dangerous for the Anglo.Saxon
business man, the college educated
man, the American banker, profes
sional man, commercial agent, lawyer
and journalist, would be driven into
the background, would be overwhelmed
by these Goths and Vandals of thu
commercial world.
The Chinese merchant is in Sar
Francisco. What is the result? Th,
answer is found in the crowded, filthy
immoral quarter OF that city known q,
"Chinatown."
To allow the Chinese intellectually
to come to this country would mean {
Chinatown 10 augment the slums ir
every city in the United States, for the
Chinaman is never sufficiently cultivat
ed to live decently according to Amer
can ideals.
AS a commercial factor the intel
lectual Chinaman is dangerous riva
as citizen of this republic. The intel
lectual American should be the mos,
earnest in opposing his admission te
this country. He would do far more
harm by lowering the standard o.
living than the coolle or laborins
classes would do. OF the two ths
intellectual is more undesirable i'm
migrant than the coolie; the latter
may undermine ms with bis shovel bu,
the former would knock us in the
head.
The quotation from the religioul
journal suggests that the resolution
BY the knights OF Labor is inspired BY
selfishness. Be it so, it is q most com
mendsble selfishness. It is the selfish
ness OF self-protection and the preser
vstion Of American ideals OF homelife
It is no unkindness to tell the intel
ligent Chinaman to stay at home; hi
is needed there TO improve his corrup
government, to educate his ignoran
hordes, to widen the streets and drail
his filthy cities reeking with disease
to treat women like human beings, Il
Danish his joss houses and level hi
temples with tawdry goods, to plov
up his graveyards, and develop hi
millions of rich acres that are waitin,
for the application of enterprise ant
intelligence to give ample comforts +
the Chinese millions that are living j,
squalor and filth in crowded cities
not for want Of room but for want @
better ideals. Great primevsl forest
wait the AK and saw OF the million
OF coolies and their ambition to bull
homes; rich mines OF gold, silver an
other precious metals, great coal bed
and stone quarries in vite the brain q
the intellectual and the labor of th
coolie to remain at home to better tn
conditions Of the race instead Of gaiuin
entrance into this country, through
sentimentalism that does little credi
to the patriotism, common sense Q
commercial spirit of Americans. Ii
China boycott our trade If she will
she will soon tire Of this; I'VE can &c
along better without her trade thai
we can with her intellectuals in on
country.
If, as suggested. Congress, the Presi
dent and Secretary OF State 80 modif,
the Chinese exclusion act as to admi
the dangerous classes known as intel
lectuals, then as an American woman
l want tho same Congress and Presi
dent to preeede this act by submittinl
the sixteenth amendment to the con
stitution which millions of the mos
intelligent men and women OF tht
United States have demanded TO
years, that American women ma,
have political power to protect the in
terest Of American womanhood an,
home.life from the encroachments o
the intellectual Chinese heathen.
We have had to stand back for al
classes of white men, negroes, Indian.
Chinese and Japanese coolies, but VI
will not stand back tsmely and se
the procession already before US aug
mented by Chinese intellectuals'
the proposed new and dangerous in
vaders.
There is but one way TO settle tn
vexed problem of Chinese exclusion