Show t t I I I I t 6 4 I t CHINESE EXCLUSION 4 4 t 4 4 4 t M j MM I 4 MM H- H 4 4 M M 4 M I J 4 M 4 M 4 M MM I 4 M With the signature of the Chinese exclusion bill h by President Roosevelt lt a most active and aud haunting ghost of national legislation has bus been laid for a good long time to come and another season of reasonable immunity from the Yellow 1 ellow Peril assur assure The he pen ei with which the measure was signed was furnished by bJ Representative l Kahn ahn of California Califor- Califor nia and will be preserved by bJ him as a memento of his gallant and successful struggle for the rights and pIote protection tion of American I wage He richly deserves their respect and gratitude The fight at the start looked looke dubious Great commercial commer cial and transportation interests at th the beginning of the present session of Congress were arrayed against any measure of rigid exclusion and if they could have hae controlled leg legislation on i the c subject would have left d dangerous loopholes through which large numbers of unwelcome would ha have e poured into the country in a steady stream Mr fr Kahn ahn aided b boY by bour our Utah delegation and ot other er Western Vestern and coast influences of of prominence and power c d these selfish i interests to the wall and anu sec secured red action fairly ly though perhaps not fully satIs- satIs to tG those most concerned It is j too o consider what effect the enactment enactment enactment enact enact- ment of the Chinese exclusion bill may have bave upon out our c commercial relations with China Chin It is not likly likely lik like I ly to make much if any auy difference in tb them m. m The able Chinese minister to this country Mr Wu Vu has bas repeatedly declared tJ that a p perpetuated exclusion would involve a loss of trade to the United States and no end of bad feeling towards this country in China We e need not expect that commerce will b be appreciably hurt inasmuch as China buys only what she must have and will buy that irrespective e of sentiment As to to o b bad feedings gs they are about abou as I bitter against Uncle Sam today as they well could be or 01 as ils th they y were when were when the Empress Dowager ordered ordered ordered or or- dered the American minister in Pekin his staff guards family and attendants to to be massacred Even if a slight damper upon the extension of our Chinese commerce co could ld be pe predicated upon a renewal renewal re re- re- re newal of the tIle exclusion law we could manage to stand that better than any arrangement which should render easy the introduction of f coolie laborers laborers labor labor- ers to the United Unite States |