Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-06-21
Keep Out The Coolies.


merchants, scholars, travellers, etc,
there is a purpose even in highest gov
eminent circ4es to also make it easier
for Chinese coolies to come in is plain
as the nose on ones face-even such a
nose as Lord Napier's or the Iron
Dukes. | am teetotally opposed to
| Chinese coolies coming to this country,
because our SIaborers 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 am
opposed No executive officer ought to
be permitted to suspend either wholly
or il part a law of congress. If he does,
no matter how high and mighty he is.
| he ought to be impeached.
Not long since in the house l sue
cinctly stated my position on both these
points Of interest to the American peo-
pie in the following words:
Mr. Chairman, l am in favor of this
amendment increasing the appropriation
for enforcing the Chinese exclusion act
from 100000 to 100000. In 1904 we appro-
priated 100000 to enforce this Chinese
exclusion law. In 1905 we appropriated
S600,0OO 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 $500, 600.
I 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
fr-o.r Tnxva mot
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 app
plause and went through with whoop.
We thought that we had surely furnished
abundant ammunition to kill the trusts.
1t turned out at the end of that fiscal year
that the department of justice had only
expended-n.y recollection is-tlirty odd
thousand cellars out of that money-at
any rate, only a snail portion of the half
million. During that tiE.la the land was as
full of trusts as Egypt was of Ice, frogs
or flies, and ( is as fuls OF trusts vet. If
that 100000 hat1 Eeeil a.eectsveiy expended
by the department of justice in vigorous
prosecutions every trust in the land would
have been killed dead as a ssnelt long be-
fore this.
The great body of the American people
particularly the labor.ng people ~ want
these Chinese coolies l-ept out of here. It
makes 70 dise-euce how much it costs,
and it makes no difference whom it makes
mad Congress cid it's duty by passing
good exclusion bill and then supplemented
that action by doing its duty by appro
priating 100000 a year for two years It
| is the executive branch of the government
that failed in IT'S duty, according to the
testimony of Mr.. Commissioner Sargent
himself, by not enforcing the law as it
stands. That is the reason the last APP
j preparation Of ss00.00OSwas not exhausted.
Our Chinese Trade.
We hear much talk about this Chinese
| boycott Our trade with China is mere
bagatelle Our exports TO China only
amount to 21a per cent of our total ex-
ports; our imports from China only
amount to 312 per cent of our total inn
ports. And the truth is that the Chinese
do not buy from us because they love us;
the English do not buy from us because
they love us. A very great affection has
| been engendered in the last two or three
| years between US and England; it. 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
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 if 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.
Frisky Diplomat.
The truth about this boycott as under
stand it now, is that that celebrated and
fris2-y diplomat. WI Ting Fang, who be-
| fore She went home committed enough in
fractions of the diplomatic proprieties in
| this country to have caused forty white
| diplomatists 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-
| have; inquiring of women how many chill
dren they had and of husbands how
many wives they had, poking his bill into
| American affairs generally. IL he had
| been a white man he would have been
ordered out of this country long before he
went. Washington ordered Genet out OF
| the country for committing not one 1.-THE
| of the iTaproprieties that the Chinanan
did. Grover Cleveland sent Lord Sack
vile West out Of here in a hurry for do
! ing a thing that at the worst was a very
/ slight improperly.
| Gentlemen say they simply want the ed
l,ucated Chinese classes to come over more
freely. That's the theory as it is pro-
pounded but the trouble about this en-
tire Chinese question is that all Cinnamon
| look alike to u.s. and you cannot tell one
| from t'others or t'other from which.
I They get the coolies in here in every
sort Of a way and by every sort Of trick