MARCH 2, 1908
The Commoner.
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Shall the Chinese Enter?
Mrs. Helen M. Gougar has written
with respect to "Chinese Exclusion"
the following:
Like the mushroom that springs up
in a night has grown the demand that
the Chinese exclusion act shall except
from its operation in the United
States the intelligent classes which
are enumerated as professional men,
commercial agents, bankers, lawyers,
priests and journalists. This demand
has recently received the endorsement
of the Chamber of Commerce of New
York, the Merchants' club of Chicago,
and many of the leading newspapers
of the country.
The proposition is sufficiently be
fore the people to deserve, that all
sides of the important issue be con
sidered. One of the leading religious journals
of the east puts the whole situation in
a nutshell in the following editorial
comment:
"According to the Singapore dis
patches the boycott of American goods
has sprung up again in that city J
stronger than ever before. It is fur
ther stated that the situation there is
critical. Chinese merchants that lave
persisted in handling American pro
ducts have received threatening let
ters from the men behind the move
ment. On t the other hand, we are
told that the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor, in its
annual report, demands the enforce
ment, to the letter, of the Chinese
exclusion laws of the country. Of
course there is no selfishness in such
an attitude! It remains to be seen
whether between congress, the presi
dent and Secretary Root, the coming
winter will, see some statesmanlike
act recorded which will redress the
wrotfgs of the cultivated, professional
Ctiiriese, "whileprbiierjy keeping the
lower order of laborers out of this
country as at present. A3 the matter
now stands an arrangement ought not
to be difficult. - For it is understood
that China is willing that the laboring
classes shall be excluded, but asks that
all other classes shall receive the same
treatment here that is accorded simi
lar, classes from Europe. The request
is a reasonable one. Certainly no good
reason can be offered for the exclu
sion of Chinese professional men, and
particularly traveling commercial
agents. Chinese merchants are ad
mitted at present, but the exclusion
law is interpreted strictly, and a com-,
mercial agent can not enter as a mer
chant. The exempted classes as the
law stands are not numerous and it
is difficult to understand why a Chi
nese banker, lawyer or journalist
should be excluded while students and
teachers are admitted. We want the
best of all nations to see us and know
us, and it is to be hoped that this will
You'll Know
when you get the grip, but you won't know
how it happened no one does.
You won't cuto. You will he too miserable.,
But you will be intensely interested in how to
yet rid of it.
How to stop those cold chills from chasing
up and down the spine, the incessant pains in
the limbs and baok, nausea, coughintr Its,
sneezing, dischargo from the eyes and nose,
muscular pains, and that brain-wracking head
ache. The best treatment known for this dreadful
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Dr. Miles' Nervine cures by building up the
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Jackson. Tenn. , . .,,
The first bottlo will benefit. If not, tno
druggist will "return your money.
be made possible before the Ides of
March shall have come and gone."
Who constitute the laboring classes
that are already excluded and that
seem to be willing to be excluded?
Those who toil with their hands, the
real wealth producers of every land.
They are poor and it is a strange com
mentary on the industrial conditions
that those who do the most and hard
est work are the poorest! Those who
demand the exclusion only of thctee
laborers must hold that labor and pov
erty are twin disgraces and by such
exclusion are willing to increase the
misery of those who toil with their
hands and produce the wealth of the
world. Rather a peculiar doctrine for
a religious journal to endorse.
Why should laborers be excluded
from a country that has such wealth
of undeveloped resources as America
has and allow only the parasites of
wealth, such as merchants, bankers,
lawyers, priests and professional men
to come in hordes, as they will come if
an exception is made in the exclu
sion act in their favor?
Resolutions appear very just and lib
eral, to the casual observer, that ask
for an open door for these favored
classes. But what will be the result
upon America's young business man
hood? The commercial life of the
Orient gives warning answer.
It is true that the cultivated China
man is a charming specimen of the
human family; he is keen of intellect,
tireless in energy honorable to an
eminent degree, a skilled money
changer, a law-abiding citizen, a cheap
employe, a poor home-maker, supersti
tious in religion, holds tyoman in su
preme contempt, possessing the right
of life and death over his wife or
wives in his own country, brutal in his
punishments and if he comes here he
comes with all these qualifications
as a citizen. He can Vote the same
as any. other immigrant after a few
yqars of residence. He soon becomes
a commercial, social and political pow
er to be reckoned with In our already
complicated body politic. Shall he
come? Is there no danger because
he is intelligent? The answer is found
in his conduct and influence in the
Orient. He is the money changer in
banks, railway and steamboat, offices,
hotels, the comprador for contractors
and syndicates and wherever trust
worthiness Is needed there is the in
telligent Chinaman; he is the merch
ant and tradesman and is so success
ful that few can compete with him.
Should these "intellectuals" be permit
ted free ingress they would work the
greatest injury to the ambitions and
opportunities of young educated, ca
pable and aspiring American men;
commercialism is quick to recognize
ability that hires itself at a small
wage.
I am emphatic in the assertion after
witnessing the almost universal em
ployment in the Orient of the educated
Chinaman that his presence in this
country would bo most detrimental
and dangerous for the Anglo-Saxon-business
man, the college educated
man, the American banker, profes
sional man, commercial agent, lawyer
and journalist would be driven into
the background, would be over
whelmed by these Goths and Vandals
of the commercial world.
The Chinese merchant is in San
Francisco. What is the result? The
answer is found in the crowded, filthy,
immoral quarter of that city known
as "Chinatown."
To allow the Chinese "intellectuals"
to come to this country would mean a
Chinatown to augment the slums in
every city in the United States, for
the Chinaman is never sufficiently cul
tivated to live decently according to
American ideals.
As a commercial factor the intellect
ual Chinaman is a dangerous rival as
citizen of this -Republic. The Intel-1
lectual American should be the most
earnest in opposing his admission to
this country. He would do far more
harm by lowering the standard of liv
ing than the coolio or laboring classes
would do. Of the two the intellectual
Is a more undesirable Immigrant than
the coolie; the latter may undermine
us with his shovel but the former
would knock us in the head.
The quotation from the religious
journal suggests that the resolution
by the Knights of Labor is inspired by
selfishness. Bo it so, it Is a moat
commendable selfishness. It is the sel
fishness of self-protection and the pres
ervation of American ideals of home
life. It is no unkindness to tell the intel
ligent Chinaman to stay at homo; ho
is needed there to improve his corrupt
government, to educate his ignorant
hordes, to widen the streets and drain
his filthy cities reeking with diseaso,
to treat women like human beings, to
banish his joss houses and level his
temples with tawdry goods, to plow
up his graveyards, and develope his
millions of rich acres that are waiting
for the application of enterprise and
intelligence to give ample comforts to
the Chinese millions that are living
in squalor and filth in crowded cities,
not for want of room but for want of
better ideals. Great primeval forests
wait the ax and saw of the millions
of coolies and their ambition to build
homes; rich mines of gold, silver and
other precious metals, great coal, beds
and stone quarries invite the brain
of the intellectual and the labor of
the coolie to remain at home to bet
ter the conditions of the race instead
of gaining entrance into this country,
through a sentimentalism that does
little credit to the patriotism, common
sense or commercial spirit of Ameri
cans. Let China boycott our trade
if she will; she will soon tire of this;
we can get along better without her
trade than we can with her intellect
uals in our country.
If, as suggested, congress, the presi
dent and secretary of state so modify
the Chinese exclusion act as to admit
the dangerous classes known as in
tellectuals, then as an American wom
an, I want the same congress and pres
ident to precede this act by submit
ting the sixteenth amendment to the
constitution which millions of the mos'
intelligent men and women of the Uni
ted States have demanded for years,
that American women may have politi
cal power to protect the interests of
American womanhood and home-life
from the encroachments of the intel
lectual Chinese heathen.
We have had to stand back for all
classes of white men, negroes, Indians,
Chinese and Japanese coolies,, but we
will not stand back tamely and see
the procession already before us aug
mented by Chinese "intellectuals" the
proposed new and dangerous invaders.
There is but one way to settle the
vexed problem of Chinese exclusion
and incidentally foreign Immigration.
Put not less than $500 poll tax on the
head of every immigrant not of Cau
casian blood. We would not only pro
tect ourselves from the "yellow peril"
but from the '"brown peril" of the
Orient.
Let ours be an Anglo-Saxon civiliza
tion wrought successfully as the
world's example.
Under such non-discriminating law
China and the Orient would have no
occasion for complaint and America's
welfare and safety would be con
served. NOT A CONVERT
The ship subsidy was under dis
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ator from the interior, "you want the
government to pay you for going Into
a profitable business."
They tried to explain that this
course would make the business even
more profitable, but ho was obdurate.
"Out in my country," he said, "we
do not have to bribe farmers to fat-,
ten hogs." Philadelphia Ledger.
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