Show TRADE TRADE T ie fact that American exports to China have decreased ed many man millions of UI t dollars is causing some comment and ind considerable alarm American manufacturers do not like to see this field taken away from them and so because It is IB a most niost valuable field An Idea idoa of the falling failing woy in the trade may mo be gained from fromn B n single Item the item of cotton otton cloth Tn in he zhe fiscal year ear 1905 the value of t the cotton cloth exported from the United States to China was as nearly For the tIle fiscal year 1807 1907 ended June 30 the value lue was under This Is Isa Isa Isa a drop of bf upwards of ot 90 per Del cent Nearly early of all I the Imports into China in 1905 were wore from the Unit United United ed cd States State That is this country led all competitors for trade with ith the Chinese Today our exports are far to the rear of ot the procession They are comparatively comparatively speaking doing practically no noI I business at all with China If the circumstances had been normal the American trade with the Celestial em ein eini empire i pire would Wi ld have h ve vastly Increased since I 1905 Certainly our ou manufacturers rs have been bean turning tum ng out a greater value Of ot products and It Is becoming daily dally more necessary for them to enter for foreign eign fields 1 It Is not hard harl to why American goods are unpopular In China The exclusion exclusion act Is I at the bottom b of the virtual boycott that has existed for r many months And nd by this the tl exclusion a act t per se st Every 7 nation has the right to tobar tobar tobar bar ports porth immigration that thatIs thatIs Is considered for any reason i I if ble The Chinese Chine e recognize this right They were w re in fact ta t very ve strong g for exclusion n themselves s riot ilot ri t so many years ago wH ln J the th memory of men who are still hale le and hearty foreign devils delIs regardless regard of their t nativity were not permitted to reside in China The objection of oC the yellow men is isto isto Isto to the manner in which the exclusion law has ha been enforced The Chinese have Indeed been treated brutally by our Immigration officers And some sections of the law are intolerable For example the section that makes it impossible le for a Chinese even though he nay may have been born bom in this coun country country country try to pay a visit to his home coun country country country try and then return to the United States Not long ago an educated Chi Chinese Chinese Chinese nese who was born in San Francisco was with a party visiting Niagara Falls Fans He wanted to walk to the Ca Canadian Canadian nadian radian side of the suspension bridge but war ivac warned that if it he once set foot ot ou Canadian soil he could not nc t re return return return turn to the United States This seems unfair and unreasonable Now very ery few people would raise the bar for Chinese immigrants We do donot donot donot not carr to have a yellow flood poured into int this country count The effect would be disastrous to American labor and conditions con fo for fot the average aver ge working workingman man would soon ebon become unbearable The Chinese do not and never can make good citizens generally speak speaking ing in n but the they are at least l ast entitled entitled to ordinarily courteous treatment and until they get it It they cannot be blamed for refusing to buy American goods |