Show H 4 f 0 H t H 0 M I H 1 M M M M M M M M H M CHINAS CHINA'S CHINAS CHINA'S PROTEST I IThe i 0 I t M M M 0 M 0 MM MM 0 0 I IThe The protest of the Chinese Government against a renewal of the Exclusion law which has been dd e to our national authorities through Min lin Minister ister Conger Conge at Pekin is extremely vigorous in ref to the proposition to exclude Chinese persons per per- sons SOIlS from the Hawaiian and Philippine islands I The note urges that since have extensive interests and family ties in both possessions itI it I would be unjust to bar them put out of of territory wi with h which their intercourse has been more inure or less les free I for so 80 long a a. tin time e as as to constitute a a sort C of prescriptive I tive five right The argument is not without force doe does not apply more to the islands than to the mainland of the United States We re exclude the Chinese flom from the tile latter b because cause that coui cours course is necessary to the protection of of American labor We Ye sh should uld equally protect the Filipinos in the island labor field fleW They are as much opposed t to Chinese Chine e competition com coin petition a as anybody y here heie could be and its no more i than just justice c to them to act as the they ask us to in tl the e matter While we weare are about it consistency is a ad- ad |