Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-01-17
WELCOME To
CHINESE IS
CONDEMNED.
EECIuSi0niStS Alarmed al
Remarks Of Prof. jerks.
BRAND HIS UTTERANCE AS
DANGEROUS TO AMERICA
Anti-0rientaI Organization Declares
Roosevelt's Representative
Got Off Wrong,

san Francisco, Cal, Jan. 1.-THE
executive committee of the Japanese
Korean Exclusion league held an im-
portant session last night and took
pains to disapprove of the attitude as
sumed by Professor jerks, special en-
voy of the president who welcomed
the Chinese commissioners to this city.
The members of the committee passed
resolutions voiclng their dlsapproval
Of the presidents policy
The meeting was attended by w.
X. Roberts, who has been In the
United States government service in
China for fifteen years. Roberts In a
lengthy speech told how Chinese COO
lies were smuggled into This country
contrary to the present exclusion laws.
George Keeling, secretary of the
Building Trades council of Eureka,
was i'm attendance at the meeting He
told Of how his town had got rid of
the Chinese, but that the workmen
there feared an invasion by the Japa-
nese. He assured the league that the
members of his council would do all
in their power to help the good work
along.
Paul Mas, labor reporter on the
Chicago Record-Herald, was a visitor
at the session. Communications were
received from the International Mine
Workers, Carpenters, Wood Wire and
Metal Lathcrs and Laundry and Shirt
Waist Workers, promising their hear-
ty supper.
The following resolution was intro
duced by Walter Macarthur IN a well
worded speech and unanimously
adopted by the committee:
Whereas. Professor ]. w. jerks of
Cornell university special representa-
tive of President Roosevelt and of the
United states government to receive
the representatives of the Chinese
government, now visiting this country.
is reported by the press of san Fran
cisco on January II. 1906, to-wlt:
The Objectionable Welcome.
"'You know. of course. the presI-
dent said that while for good and suf-
fcieut reasons we'll understood by the
governments Of both countries, II Is
and viii be the policy of this country
TO exclude Chinese laborers, members
Of other classes, such as business men
and especially students and scholars
and the officials who are shaping your
governmental policy, we are very glad
to welcome. Those persons who rep
resent as well on the one hand the en-
ergy Of and the upright business
methods of your wonderful people.
and on the other exemplify the worth
and dignity of your refined scholarship
and the refined culture handed down
from remote antiquity, render both
countries by their coming the greatest
services, and we trust that we shall
have the privilege of welcoming all
such in increasing numbers; and
Whereas. This statement of the
presidents views concerning the adj
mission of Chinese to the United
states implies a complete reversal Of
the present policy of Chinese exclu-
sion as set forth in the Chinese ex-
clusiou act. which excludes all classes
Of Chinese persons or persons of Cal-
nesc descent, other than members Of
those classes expressly excepted, /. =.
officials of the government, mer-
chants, students and travellers for
pleasure or curiosity. and
Whereas. The suggested policy OF
admitting all classes of Chinese ex-
cept Chinese laborers. would effectu-
ally destroy the Chinese exclusion act.
By reason Of the impossibility OF dc
tecting the Chinese laborer, or PROV
Ing his identity as such, in the mass OF
immigration that would certainly fol-
low the adoption Of that policy: there
fore be II
Resolved, BY the executive board OF
the Japanese and Korean Exclusion
league. that we dlsapprove the express
sions Of Professor jerks IN this CON
nectlon, as being without warrant In
law. contrary to public policy and
dangerous to the public welfare: fur.
lher
Resolved That we reiterate our
inistence upon the strict maintenance
OF the Chinese exclusion act In ac-
cordancc with the will OF the Ameri-
can people ana with view primarily
to the protection OF the American peo-
pie from contact with the repugnant
peoples and inst!:..lons Of the ORR
ent."