Show CHINESE AND KEROSENF rice Novel Mode of Retaliation Proposed Pro-posed by a Chinamtiu NEW YORK October IChina or at least some of the officials of China wish to retaliate for the American Chinese restriction laws by laws prohibiting pro-hibiting the importing of American Ameri-can kerosene into China Chang Chitung viceroy of Canton has addressed a memorial to the Emperor in which he arraigns kerosene as the greatest menace to the peace and prosperity of the Empire It burned up 400 houses in Swatea not long ago he says and before that destroyed de-stroyed a steamer and cost SCO people their lives Soon afterward after-ward it burned 10000 houses in Canton and destroyed 10000000 worth of property It is responsible he says for ninetenths of the fires in Canton He declares it has done incalculable in-calculable injury to life and property that it is wars than opium being most swift and terible in its deadliness deadli-ness The viceroy said he did his best last year to kill the trade in kerosene by raising the transit dues on it but the fell destroyer was too subtle to be driven out by this process and the evil is increasing rather than diminishing Therefore he Viceroy now petitions the throne fjr aid in the struggle with fore gn traders who under the guise of frieiu ship insists on profiting himself by introducing in-troducing an article highly injurious to the welfare of China The Vicerjy points out that there is no dilficalty m putting an end to tao baneful traffic because the treaty of 1881 witu the United States makes provisions to limit Chinese immigration to that country on account of compstitior Chinese labor being objectionab e and injurious to their own interests Wo have equal rRhts to prohibit kerosene which injurious to us The law tht nations have the right to protect their own interests and prevent injury being done their peo pie applies to both countries alike if there be any justice and when either government govern-ment acts on this principle no ejection tion can be raised by the other The Viceroy therefore formally requests that a stop instantly be pUt to the importation im-portation of kerosene |