Show portland business men give their views on chinese portland ore july 12 in response to president Hoos evelti s invitation to the commercial bodies of the pacific coast to report their views regarding the problem of chinese exclusion or the restriction of the immigration of chinese to ahti country president win D wheelwright of the portland chamber of commerce has forwarded the following letter to the president portland ore july 6 1905 to the president with interest the close attention that is being paid by bour administration to the relations between the united states and china at the present time the portland chamber of commerce Is impelled to address you respectfully on the subject being specially moved to athla aci alon by a more or less prevalent opinion that the pacific coast is not only i responsible for hostile legislation to ward the chinese in the past but that it is still disposed and to a greater extent than any other portion of the country to make unreasonable demands on the government for their exclusion in the future it la true that the citizens of california more than thirty years ago appealed to the general government for protection against apparent danger of unknown and therefore possibly overwhelming proportions and that primary legislation to limit asiatic immigration was enacted in response to that appeal in those days the pacific coast was very sparsely populated and there was terror even in the idea of the propinquity of a nation 0 four hundred millions of subject sa mysterious people possessed of unknown possibilities for evil even to the fear that by force of overwhelming numbers the stands ards of christian and anglo saxon civilization might be overthrown but experience since that time has shown that such fear was without warrant that the chinese have no desire to attain citizenship that they attempt no part in the administration of affairs and that they have no influence on our institutions thus it has come to pass we believe that the pacific coast Is now no more in favor of their exclusion than the middle west the east or the south and it seems fitting that the commercial bodle of this section of the country should put themselves on record to that effect by this we do not mean to deny that opposition still exists on athla coast to the admission of chinese laborers on any terms habits of thought and indulgence dul gence of prejudices cultivated tor more than a quarter of a century are not to be eradicated in a day but there Is now much less opposition than there was and public opinion Is changing rapidly under the influence of new conditions and of the stand taken by your administration so that the time Is for renewed discussion of the subject while the country appreciates the efforts that the government has recently made to insure better treatment of the few chinese that come here we are convinced that these efforts will not touch the root of the difficulty and that the negotiation of a new treaty and the enactment of new laws by congress are necessary to the maintenance of the principles of humanity on which this government Is founded aad to the establishment of harmonious relations between the united states and china if Is not only necessary that all immigrants who come here should be humanely and fairly treated and that all who have a right under existing treaties to admission shall be admitted without subjection to harsh and humiliating treatment and that registration papers issued in accordance with treaty stipulations in china aad by american consuls shall be accepted as final but we be lieve t to be imperative that privileges to those enjoyed by the subjects 0 other nations shall be extended under ul lable restrictions ta the chinese tho fear that they will exercise a demoralizing influence on our civilization has pa ased away their usefulness as patient and intelligent laborers who ave a full equivalent tor the wages asked and practically all 0 whom return sooner or latar to their own land has been demonstrated they needed especially in the undeveloped portions 0 the country to do the work that remains undone because there is an insufficient supply of laborers to do it and they are wanted aa household servants because the sons and daughter of american laborers aspire to higher positions and are not content to perform menial service the objections to their admission tor these purposes come mainly we believe from those laborers who think the standard of wages and the position of the wage earner will both be lowered by their competition but we submit that the average condition of the laborer in this country has constantly improved and still continues to improve in spite of an enormous immigration of working people from nearly every country of europe and that there Is no objection to the admission to pacific coast ports of a moderate number of chinese that does not lie with equal force against the entry into new york boston and philadelphia of italians poles slavs russians and the inhabitants of southeastern europe and it seems to us that the objections of the laboring classes to the importation of chinese in limited numbers are no more reasonable than the objections urged by the same classes in the past to the introduction of laborsaving labor saving machinery which as we all know had no effect to degrade the laborer but on the contrary to make of him a better man than he was before vast areas of territory on the pacific coast are undeveloped at the present time and will so remain under present labor conditions whereas with the influx of only a tithe of the immigration that is now coming in on the atlantic coast lands would be cleared and improved public highways would be built in regions where there Is an entire absence of good roads and railroad construction would take on new activity it cannot be fairly claimed that the chinese would interfere with the american laborer in this causes this work Is not now perform ed by american or any other labor save in the most limited way it remains practically undone and the doing of it would not only tail to affect injuriously the present satisfactory status of the american laborer bu would open wider and higher fields for his activity and improvement prepared largely by those who under any circumstances will always hold second place to him next come the considerations covering our relations with china as they affect our trade with that country which will improve or decline according to whether the said relations are friendly or otherwise while it Is true that tho exports from afie pacific coast have materially i increased during the past ten years so that large quantities of its agricultural products have been marketed at remunerative prices and considerable amounts of manufactured goods have also gone forward to the benefit of eastern factories and southern planters it is to be borne in mind that during that period and up to december 8 last a treaty of comparatively ively recent date was in exist ence to the terms of which both na alons had given their assent and in renewing which the chinese doubtless hoped for some modifications in their favor but now that that treaty has expired and the negotiations for a new modus have failed and the chinese are therefore threatening hostile action it is easy to see tha not only the trade will not continue to grow but that there Is danger of ita ed on page five BOY IS SHOT was mistaken for a deer by a hunter N Y july 13 philip peternell eight years old of dauby has been mistaken for game in the forest near danby by a hunter and fatally shot the boy was in the woods gathering berries and it Is supposed that a hunter thinking him a deer alrod STUNG BY A BEE blood poisoning sets in and leg has to be amputated santa rosa cal july 12 edward york a resident of upper lake was stung by a honey bee recently on his leg blood poisoning set in and amputation was necessary to save his life WALLS COLLAPSED baltimore july 12 while workmen were engaged today in excavate ing an old wall of the glenn building the wall suddenly collapsed killing one laborer and seriously injuring another STOESSEL IN DISGRACE st petersburg july 12 the nasha prints a report that lieutenant general stoessel has been placed under arrest at tsar selo having the revelation made by the commission which has been investigating the defense and capitulation of port arthur and that tho word of honor do f bated by a number of french ad cirera of general stoessel will not be presented |