Show 4 I t I I I I I 4 I 4 4 I f I I I I I 4 4 M t t MM t M 44 U M 4 44 y I NO PLAYING WITH EXCLUSION N. N I M t. t M I I M I Ml I I I M t m t t I M I m t t M t M t H t t t M M Mf t r f Xo No one familiar with the temper of the Pacific coast people at the present time will be surprised at the action of the California delegation in Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress in unanimously refusing to favorably consider consider con con- sider sidel the resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants Merchants' Exchange of San Francisco relating relating relating re re- re- re lating to Chinese Exclusion Without a a. dissenting voice the California Senators and Representatives declare that to do what these commercial bodies S ask would be he to throw our doors open to a counte countless count count- f e I l less ss horde of Coolie l laborers not one of whom S W would have haye the slight slightest t difficulty in n providing hims himself lf with the thc means to enter the country country as a member of one of the thc excepted classes proposed by the Chamber of Commerce and th the lIer Merchants Merchants' hants' hants Exchange Ex Ex- change S It is nearly impossible to believe that in passing passing passing pass- pass ing the resolutions asking Congress to admit Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese merchants salesmen bookkeepers managers i bankers an and so on these presumably intelligent f. 2 organizations could have haye expected that such a aft ft proposition would find favor in their own to V nty in the West Vest or anywhere in the country The Ther r r movement may not have had such an object in view yN but no observing American citizen could fail to see at a glance that if successful it would practically i and completely nullify any exclusion act which 1 it i 1 Congress might pass 1 S We Ve are unwilling to believe that the leading Business men of San Francisco are anxious anio s or willi will- will i. i i irig that the termination of the Geary law should 0 V mark the beginning of unrestricted Chinese gration and yet that is what would jj j 1 happen if nat naS na- na S 2 t onal legislation were to be he enacted on the lines linesS Jf J S laid down by them in their formal requests addressed addressed ad- ad 5 dressed to the California Senators and 1 i I s For Practical purposes what they may mayor or may mayl l A Lt not have intended will cut a l. l very cry small figure figure in inthe inv inI I v the settlement of the question We cannot conc con- con 5 eel re c ie of danger that an 4 any an Exclusion act comprehensive comprehensive compre compre- and drastic h to enough suit all elements opposed opposed opposed op op- op- op posed to Chinese cheap labor will not be passed Those who are known to oppose such a measure are aret t too Q jew lew-in lew in hi number r and the their their- their reasons l' l r a. a s te Q ap p 1 parent and obnoxious to public poli policy y t to tomake i make ak them l fe feared d And then thep a t majority ty of the present House of Representatives will ivill be e candidates for reelection re elec tion next autumn Such folk are c quite unlikely to atford the country an amusing and instructive imitation imitation imi inn tation of the monkey and the buzz saw |