Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-04-19 | Page 4 | The Ching Note

D' D iIi h i t t I t I I I J li THE CHING NOTE lOTE V tit j r. r j t I I I I I t t t 4 t t 4 I I J t t I I t r The note of Prince Ching ChinA President of the Chi Chi- e Board of Foreign Affairs to our Government protesting against the exclusion of his people front from the tIle Philippines is an entertaining example of Geles Gele Hal ial diplomatic His Highness find finds on examination that the Philippines are arc not far front from China bhim He observes that ever since the the time tinie o othe of th the Ming ling d dynasty nasty emigration has been active to th the Islands glands and that the Spanish Government hile treating the Chinese immigrants badly never neve forbade their landing or harshly drove them bad back to China as W we are Ire doing He reminds t us that th the exclusion of Chinese Chines l persons from front our Eastern possessions pos pos- sessions is not erp co covered h by ly an any treat treaty as is the cas case relatively l to io some other places and ho bo- concludes conclude with ith the observation that if this his sort of thing is t to be e l kept ept up if no distinction i to be merchants and stud laborers but nil all alil alike eare are to b be lie rented l as criminals I 1 fear fhe he good reputation of ot youil our honorable country will hardly be a able ahie lc to escape cs- cs capo cape injury V While hile the American people arc aro not at all likely 1 o allow any auzy sentimental consideration t to stand tand as astill un till ii o obstruction in the 1 way of a vital p public necessity necessity sity it will cost nothing to to admit that there is thing to be ue said for the Chin Chinese side of the It is iR hard that the in iii J the Phil Phil- suddenly should hould be cut off otI from m personal intercourse with their relatives and friends in the mother nother country and anti that the severe measures s adopted for the exclusion of coolie labor labor- should apply equally to io merchants attempt to visit the he archipelago o in the ordinary course of their busi busi- ness Having admitted this of course we find ourselves ourselves our our- selves up against the impasse of the situation It would greatly please us to he be nice and polite olite even en evento to o out our Mongolian fellow men but we cannot afford it t and there it may maybe be said the matter must r rest st