Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-07-01 | Page 14 | China Boycott Not Serious

I CHINA BOYCOTT NOT SERIOUS Students Causing All the Trouble, Government is Satisfied With the Exclusion Act. "it Has a Contract to Furnish Laborers in South African Mines. DETROIT. June "0. Charles Denby. diplomatic adviser to the Viceroy of North China, who ipitinp relatives here, does not fake a serious view of Chinese threats to boycott American goods owing to the Chinese exclusion act. Mr. Denby, who has for twenty years been In close touch with political and oonunercial'atYalrfl In China, said: "The Chinese Government Is not back of this agitation, and it is not supported by the merchants. Ii I probable that "hlne?e Students are making the trouble. trou-ble. The student of China, like those of Russia nr a factor In politics, young, hot-headed fellows, educated abroad and With advanced reform ideas Chinn Is Satisfied "China Is satisfied with the present exclusion laws." 1 believe that if we repealed re-pealed these laws Chins would pass an art forbidding the coolies to come to this country The Government has a contract con-tract with the big mine owners In South Africa to supply them with labor. The Government gets a royalty on all the labor furnished, and cannot get men enough It ha recruiting agents all over Chins tJOV "The Chinese do not want their laborers labor-ers to come to America' All China wants Is a fair, jut administration of those laws that students and merchants mer-chants bo allow. ,1 to ome in undisturbed undis-turbed and no discriminations "