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Show "I'lflE" TUB CUINKSE. As might have been expected, the Chinese government is reported to have put in force a law similar to tho American exclusion act. The law is not ii political expedient, but a justill-abhs justill-abhs retaliatory measure. Hereafter Americans visiting China or embarking in business in the celestial empire will be subject to greater restrictions than are enforced against the Mongols on this sido of tho Paeirio.- Omaha Bee. The people of the Rocky mountain region re-gion and of the Paeilie coast euro not what China may do in tho way of retaliation. re-taliation. They have no use for .the Chinese. They would not care if the entire trade of China were cut oft', and all the Americans expelled from that country, if the Chinese could bo "lircd'' out of tho United States and kept out. The American exclusion act ought to be passed and strictly enforced. The senators se-nators and congressmen who Will oppose op-pose it are thoso who know nothing about the Chinese, but every well-posted well-posted man will vote for the measure. It is a measure of self-preservation nud protection. It is a measure in the interest in-terest of American labor. It is a measure meas-ure in the interest of American health and cleanliness. If tho American congress con-gress desires to keep the Caucasian from being played out, it will pass tho exclusion exclu-sion act. |