Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-11
UNCLE SAM CAN
ACT NONE TOO
QUICKLY
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CHINA
ARE NECESSARY
Captain Beat, an Authority, Lays Bare
for The Herald the Motives Of
the Oriental Antl-For-
eieners


the Chinese navy, and now In Los An
geles en- route to London, says that an
uprising against the white residents in
the Land of Chaos is serious and adds
that the United States seems to be the
only government which recognizes the
need for precautionary measures on the
part Of foreign countries.
Capt. Best is an authority on Chinese
affairs.
Here is his record:
was for two and a half years in
Chinese navy.
One and one-half years with China
and Manila Steamship company.
For eleven and one-half years was
in Chinese customs and harbor SER
vice.
Commander of China Navigation Co.
ships one year.
Was for two years with large sugar
refinery in Hong Kong.
Capt. Best has resided in sections OF
China where no foreigners penetrated,
travelled inland in many sections of the
empire and was often consulted by oflt-
cials and leaders of the reform party.
Perhaps his most notable stroke was
in South Africa, where he succeeded
in blocking for n time the Importation
of Chinese coolies to the mines.
BY Captain A. w. Best
Coming events are said to cast their
shadows before, and the appalling con-
ditons which will ere long prevail in
eastern Asia are certainly casting very
substantial and portentous shadows
ahead of them.
1t is strange to the uninitiated how
it is that though present events have
been maturing for quite a number of
years-to the writer's knowledge the
trouble has been brewing since 1897
yet it is only recently that it has been
recognized. This recognition comes
firstly through boycott on American
goods, which is only, comparatively
speaking, an unimportant side issue.
Further. it may seem strange to some
that the United States, country adj
mittedly anxious to be at peace with
the world and avoid any entanglements
which could possibly lead to war, be-
ing content to confine herself to do
nestle politics, has been the first to
lakeland that none too soon-active
steps to provide the necessary military
and naval forces for the protection of
the unarmed white residents in that
Satan empire, from not only massacre
but being the subjects Of the most
nameless outrages and torture.
That the United States government
is taking the active steps it is for
providing for contingencies which the
officials foresee may arise in China
speaks much for the prescience, wis
dom and foresight of the responsible
officials. They prove a knowledge that
the writer knows full well from twenty
years residence in China, many years
studying developments from within the
Chinese government service in various
of its branches. many years intimate
s,Nt1 1A frt1N1f n
builders of the Chinese reform party,
of the older and better school, and lat
terly with the rabid and senseless
younger school who are fostering and
urging on the present trouble in league
with a certain large land anti-foreign)
section in Japan, where for the past
few years many of them have been re-
ceiving their education,
Lets Secret Out
The Chinese minister to the German
court in a recent utterance gave the cue
to what the Chinese are now aiming
at, viz, that the Chinese people should
not be made the subjects of special
treatment when they emigrated.
To the uninitiated again-this in
cludes the whole of those who have
never been fated to spend their lives
in China and to ninety-nine and nine
tenths of those who have, whether
consuls, missionaries or business men
this may seem more or less reason
able.
A little consideration of the subject
from only one point of view WILL how
ever Shatter that. If considered in
conjunction with the aspirations of the
younger and more ambitious reformers,
as instructed by their Japanese teach
ers IAN aspiration now mutually shared
by the Chinese government, or at least
the more enlightened and influential of
the ofIicials) it will be seen how much
danger, to particularly the United
States and Australasia, any such con-
cession would entail to the white races
To take the first point of view and
state it concisely:
The Chinese (and the Japanese, tool
claim to treat Europeans on special
lines of Legislation, excluding them
from the general right of residence and
travel and continuing them to certain
treaty ports for the prosecution of thei:
business.
Yet they also claim the right to
| themselves be treated OH the same
and equal plane as civilized nationals
| Were there not the question OF their
barbarism, low type of physique and
morals. low and Objectionable type of
| living to be also considered, the claim
to deal out special legislation against
the white man and at the same time
to he free from special legislation them
selves when entering the white mans
territory is typical of the assurance
and effrontery Of the Asiatc races.
Would Settle Areas
When dealing with the ambition and
aspiration of the yellow man there is
quite another more portentious and
far-reaching matter requiring grave
consideration.
The real aim and aspiration of the
yellow races of the younger generation
today is full and equal right to enter
on and settle in those areas. They
would have the barrier of exclusion,
which they formerly set up against the
white man, torn down. They want to-
tai exclusion of foreign trade and right
of residence. Having gained full
knowledge of the vast areas which
during the past two or three centuries
/ have been colonized and settled by the
white races they aspire to full and
equal right to enter on and settle in
| those areas.
They know full we'll what hordes of
settlers they could send in. They be-
lieve that having that right conceded
to them, no matter how obtained,
whether by bluff or cajolery, they can