The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-06-28
Keep ou. the Coolies.


That under the guise of making more
liberal arrangements to let in Chinese
merchants. scholars. travellers. etc.
| there is purpose even in highest gov
ernment circles 10 also make it easier
for Chinese coolies to come in is plain
as the nose on ones face-even such q
! nose as Lord Napier's or the Iron
Dukes. I am teetotally opposed TO
Chinese coolies coming to this country.
because our laborers cannot compete
with them and live.
| 1t is also clear as the sun that our
| government is more and more becom.
| ing a bureaucracy, and to that l am
| opposed No executive officer ought to
be permitted to suspend either wholly
! or in part law of congress. III he does.
no matter how high and mighty he is.
he ought to be impeached
Not long since In the house sue
cinctly stated my position on both these
points of interest to the American peo.
pie in the following words:
Mr.. Chairman. am in favor of this
amendment increasing the appropriation
for enforcing the Chinese exclusion act
from $50O,O0O to 100000. In 1904 we appro-
priated 100000 to enforce this Chinese
exclusion law. In 1905 we appropriated
100000 again. Now Commissioner General
OF immigration Sargent says that last
year they did not expend 100000. and
therefore this year they come and ask for
only $4,000
l remember that two or three years ago
my friend. the> gentleman from Georgia,
Judge Bartlett. offered an amendment
here appropriating S250,000 to prosecute the
trusts-a special fund. The gentleman
from Iowa, Colonel Hepburn. not satisfied
with that. raised" Judge Bartlett at his
own game by offering an amendment to
Judge Bartlett's amendment increasing
the amount of the special fund to prose-
cute trusts to 100000. Colonel Hepburn's
amendment was received with great ap-
plause and went through with whoop
We thought that we had surely furnished
abundant ammunition to kill the trusts
II turned out at the end of that fiscal year
that the department of justice had only
expended-my recollection is-thirty odd
thousand dollars out of that money-at
any rate. only small portion of the half
million. During that time the land was $
full of trusts as Egypt was of lice. frogs
or flies. and 1t Is as full of trusts yet. II
that s5O0O00 had been effectively expended
by the department of justice in vigorous
prosecutions every trust in the land would
have been killed dead as smelt long be
fore this.
The great body of the American people
particularly the laboring people : want
these Chinese coolies kept out of here. II
makes no difference how much it costs
and 1t makes no difference whom II makes
mad Congress did its duty by passing a
good exclusion bill and then supplemented
that action by doing its duty by appro-
priating $60O,0O0 a year for two years 1t
Is the executive branch of the government
m ha
testimony OF Mr.. Commissioner Sargent
himself, by not enforcing the law as Il |
stands. That Is the reason the last ap
preparation of 100000 was not exhausted
Our Chinese Trade.
We hear much talk about this Chinese |
boycott. Our trade with China Is a mere |
bagatelle. Our exports to China only 4
amount to 2k per cent of our total ex-
ports; our imports from China only |
amount to 81 per cent of our total i'm |
ports And the truth is that the Chinese |
do not buy from us because they love us:
the English do not bay from us because |
they love us. very great affection has |
been engendered in the last two or three |
years between us and England it's so sud
den, don't you know-too sudden to last.
But nobody buys our stuffs because they
love us; they buy our stuffs because ours
are better than anybody else's stuffs or
because they are cheaper than anybody |
elses stuff Love and affection count for
little or nothing in commerce. 1t Is bust
ness pure and simple and nothing else
So long as we make better products than
other people and sell them cheaper we will
outsell other nations but IL other nations
make better products or sell them cheaper
they Will outstrip us In the markets of the
world. That's the whole case in a nut
shell and all there is to it.
A Frisky Diplomat.
The truth about this boycott. as under
stand II now. Is that that celebrated and
risky diplomat. WI Ting Fang who be
fore he went home committed enough In
fractions OF the diplomatic proprieties In
MS country TO have caused forty white
iplomatists to receive their passports
when he went home pretending to be
great friend of the American people, orig.
mated and engineered that boycott He
went around this country advising peo-
pie what to eat and wear and how to be-
laYe; inquiring of women how many chill
iren they had and OF husbands how
many wives they had. poklng his bill into
American AFFAIRS generally. III he had
been white man he would have been
'rdered out OF this country long before he
vent Washington ordered Genet out of
he country for committing not one tithe
Il the improprieties that the chnaman
lid. Grover Cleveland sent Lord Sack
lille West out OF here In a hurry for do
ng a thing that at the worst was a very
light impropriety,
Gentlemen say they simply want the ed
lcated Chinese classes TO come over more
reely. That's the theory as II is pro-
'ounded. but the trouble about this On.
Ire Chinese question is that all Chinamen
ook alike TO us. and you cannot tell one
rom tother OF tother from which.
They get the coolies In here in every
ort OF a-way and by every sort OF trick.
he gentleman from New York MIR Fitz. ,
eraldl stated that the persons Interested
. getting coolies in-that is. the Chinese I
IL Companies la San Francisco ana a
GOD many up on the northern border
nd good many on the Mexican border
lake a pront OF from fve hundred 10 one /
nousand dollars head for every China
IAN they smuggle In. / read on the train
,day piece In one OF the Philadelphia
apers, which l intended 10 cut out ana
se here. not knowing that this question
As coming up 50 soon. but ! left the
apar on the train. II gave an account OF Z
,me place oa the border where they had
cfually rigGed up tunnel TO gel the
n llfc he.e on the sly, II Il a lucra-