New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-14
FEARS CHINA WILL RISE.
Vice President SchTeT1n Says Labor
Is to Blame for Boycott.

r P schwerin vice-president and general man
ager Of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, whose
business relations with the people OF China nave
been intimate for more than dozen years regards
the situation in China with grave apprehension.
He considers the manifestations Of disorder as pri-
marily anti-American, but with the sentiment OF
China for the Chinese underlying the irruptions.
the trouble is certain in his opinion to spread and
become anti-foreign uprising that will make all
other nationalties excepting the japanese the OBJ
tects Of attack
Speaking of the prospect Of trouble Mr.. schwerin
said yesterday
The present situation is certainly exceedingly
serious and the safety al the shond not be
surprised any time read of a wholesale mas
Serxenty hope pc may be aVoid9dWe would simply
be paying the penalty Of folly and reaping the
fruit Of outrageous treatment Of the Chinese.
The Chinese have always had an sntipathy tow
ard foreigners. and with the education Of Chinese
there has arisen spirit Of resentment against the
last ten years have seen a great growth of the
patriotic spiria thing hitherto unknown in China.
essential to a growth Of commercial exchange was
not easily established ,o,,
dences OF the ferment of anti-foreign feeling but
closer 10 the Chinese than did the Americans. And
as a result our trade with China had increased
by leaps and bounds since the end OF the Boxer
only checked the development Of trade relations,
built up is now threatened. All Of this is only the
reflex OF the active and aggressive methods OF
tain labor organizations the Pacific Coast. The
whole country lie made TO suffer in its commercial
interests, and the lives OF American citizens in
Clina are endangered because OF the outrageous
policy that has been pursued IN administering the
treaty Of 1884 has been perverted. It defined the
excluded class-the coolies-and expressly stated
that officials merchants, travellers and students
did not come within its provisions. But IN re-
Spouse 10 the constantly assertive labor influence
regulation has been piled upon regulation. until
the treaty provisions have been buried OF sight
Then, again, the labor organizations the Coast
have applied the boycott not only against Chinese
goods imported into the country, but against the
merchant who would buy the garden products OF
the Chinese farmer in the Coast States. And the
result has been that the Cinnamon have turned
the weapon upon the Americans, who taught them
Since the boycott was invoked against US last
spring, whole cargoes Of American goods con-
signed to Singapore have been refused and could
not be unloaded. They returned 10 Hong
Kong. where they put IN warehouses; 10
await a restoration Of former trade relations
The guilds of China closely bound to-
gether than commercial bodies and through
them the boycott Is made broadly effective.
Mr. Schwerin expressed the opinion that the ad-
lnnIstraton at Washington is fully alive 10 the
seriousness of the existing situation He says
that while the passage OF the Foster BILL now
pending in the House, might make IL possible for
the Chinese authorities hold the people in check
and avert q massacre of the American contingent
n China only the complete elimination Of friction
can give promise Of re-estabishing the waning
trade between China and the United States.