Show LETS BE DIRECT OR QUIT that a strai straight line is the shortest shor distance between two points is as aa true as regards the actions of individuals as aa relating tu to geometry and it is as aa true when applied to nations as an to individuals individual vi for a long time past there has been open rud aud at times riotous opposition to chinese in the united states but more particularly on the pact pacific no slope and the means bought to rid the coubry of their presence have been devious shifting anu and uncertain whereby difficulties multiplied anu and dangers not previously existing were or brought ought into existence we are now dow confronted with a situation through such ouch methods of doing business which is not dot only irk irksome sooke and hazardous but has already ed us as a nation to no small degree of ridicule the geary exclusion lot act may he be as the crystallization of the extreme auti anti chinese senti I 1 mont ment on the pacific coast but hile the he js is direct enough the measure itself to ig I 1 a strange union of indirect indirectness and vindictiveness li 8 ms to have been bean we me authors design to subject the tu to a hue of technical procedure tu til which not being famille familiar r aud being totally ignorant except when guided by a citizen the great i orlly of them must becomes beco become victims and nd te be dep deportee to china the object Is IH a plain tiling and the procedure oure a kinu kind ot of apology for the object now if lo IL is to exclude the chinese I 1 hy by not frame a law providing for or such purpose in so many words giving them t I 1 course a reasonable t time rue I 1 la a which to euie leuie L or in most cabes to uLi settle their affairs and then to go more ado I 1 we think that by such guch means as now obtain we hoodwinking ure are hoad winking the chinese here or at their flowery home aud thus averting i ng retaliatory etalia tory measures we are only dt at ceiling ourselves wl I 1 bt sufficient cause while the bungle 91 balL ballag lg and characterizing the whole business are slowly but surely making us the laughing stock of tue the nations |