The Chanute times., 1906-02-23
CHINESE ON EXCLUSION

Immigration December 1906
Much interest was aroused by tbe
speech, delivered in fluent and
forcible English, of Ng Poon Chew
of San Francisco, editor of the only
Chinese daily newspaper the
United States. He minimzed the
danger to American labor and
American institutions to be appre-
hended from Chinese immigration,
saying:
can often cited objection to the
Chinese is that we do not assimilate.
Assimilatlng humburg! You don't
give us chance. You throw all the
obstacles you can in our way. You
pass laws against US becoming citi-
zens of the United States. You
have passed laws on the Pacific
coast forbidding US to intermarry
with other nationalties. You have
passed laws forbidding us to bring
our women over, and at the same
time you damn us for not helping
you solve the race suicide question.
| Iaughter,) You say we take money
away from the country. Gentlemen,
we have taken hundreds of dollars
from the country. At the same
time we have never taken the money;
we never send money out of the
country in the form of coin, We
do not use gold In China, and we do
not use you American dollar. Every
dollar here amounts 10 100 cents,
but if your money goes to China it
amounts to forty cents; there
fore We leave every American dollar
whether 1t is tainted or moi, IN the
country Qaughtier), and we only
send the value of money in the form
of goods; and If we do send the value
of money in the form of goods it
helps this country.
"From iS4S to 1881, space of
thirty four years of free Chinese
immigration, when every grade of
labor was open to them, the largest
number of Chinese who came in
was Io6, 900. Those 100, 900 would
not be great menace to the country.
During the same period you got from
Europe several million people. l
am demanding, not the repeal of
the Exclusion law, but the modif
cation of the Exclusion law. CAP.
plause.) l demand that you should
modify the Exclusion law so as to
admit those who do not in any way
interfere with the laboring class of
the American people. applause.
am here, gentlemen, twenty-five
years; l obtained my education in
this country; l own property and l
pay taxes, and | have raised family
of five children, and yet l am ex-
cluded. l am not deportable be-
cause l am so insignificant that the
Chinese Inspector could not find me
with great magnifying telescope,
and because l came her, before the
year 1880. Therefore, as long as l
stay in this country l am permitted
to stay here, but if should leave
the country should never be able
to return to this land of liberty and
human progress.
"The act excludes everybody ex-
cept five classes-officials, mer-
chants, travellers, students and |
teachers. The official is one who
holds a commission from the
Chinese government to come
here in an official capacity.
Therefore, if the emperor of China
or the empress dowager ever had
the audacity to try to reach this
country they would be deportable.
A teacher is one who teaches the
higher branches of learning In a
recognized institution of education.
A student is one who pursues the
higher education of learning in
recognized institution of learning,
A merchant is one who has a fixed
place of business in his own name.
If he does million dollars worth of {