Show RISCO RIS CO BUSINESS B US INESS CLUBS SAY LET CHINESE ENTER of Commerce Directors Adopt Resolutions Which Throw Open the Golden Gate to the Influx of Mongol Hordes rr r 4 t 4 4 The board of trustees of the Commercial club of ot San Francisco o has f resolution to be submitted to the organization for following adopted the confirmation the national Cong Congress Congre o Q of the There are now pending in the e to p. Whereas we b be conf f United Tinted States at Washington certain bills which w we believe e ma may mar cont con con- restrict the entrance of ot the mercantile class of C Cuba into the f t t- to so States as to be be harmful to our m mercantile rca tile int interests rests and f F United Whereas VereaS The trade of the port of Qt oVSan San Francisco Francico with th the Chinese Chinse Chinese f Empire is of great and increasing import importance nce i Its value for the year 1890 f being 58 and for the year 1900 and and 5 Whereas reas For th the proper conserving and promoting of this exchange change of ot commodities we believe It is of ot th the utmost impo importance tance that all facilities commerce and the courtesies courtesies- due to toa a friendly nation be extended particularly partIcularlY par- par of to that class of the Chinese Empire which operates controls and f has Las as in Itself the means and nci power of furthering this his trade which under f fa conditions and by the assistance of ot a broad Governmental policy policy is destined to assume vast proportions in the future therefore f fL L Resolved That we the Chamber of ot Commerce of San Francisco do dof f hereby most respectfully and earnestly petition the President of the United States and the California delegation at Washington D D. C C. to use usef f heir utmost efforts to induce the Congress to enact legislation on so as to tog f ant the unrestricted entrance into into the United States tates of all nie merchants chants chants' f g grant gant d members of the mercantile class clam of China such as salesmen salesmen c clerks cerks erkS f fr r bookkeepers accountants managers storekeepers bankers and and T. T The he Merchants' Merchants exchange directors adopted similar r resolutions I 4 m SAN N FRANCISCO Feb 8 Mass S.-Mass Mass iN e ings have been called by leaders of g labor in iii this city to place 0 ingmen on record in the matter of Action of Cf the trustees of the Cham- Cham of Commerce and the Merchants' Merchants lange ange relative to Chinese in Do S charged that the trustees the trustees of these have ha declared for tor vi vir viral vir- vir al n 1 unrestricted Chinese immigration paper says I 1 iring the recent strike members of association freely deed de- de e Employers Employers' 1 ed that if the union men held out Should mean the defeat of the effort fre enact Jre-enact enact re-enact enact a Chin Chinese Chine e. e exclusion I l law w. w made to put that that- being w y the effort l I is fe ft t into effect eff ct 1 of Commerce and the T The e Chamber Exchange are arenow are xe now now being in the effort to prevent thel the l of an exclusion law v that will cl elude l de That there was some such mainspring faction action stirring both boards is evinced evi evi- evi- evi by the fact that both have been ved to adopt the same series of reso- reso pons ions In those resolutions Is the theLme ime device for opening the American j x ors rs to the Inrush of Chinese laborers Both boards declare against the bills bUls JW w Jw in Congress In other words both bothe e e. e against Chinese exclusion T The Jie e great trouble with the enforce- enforce ent bt of the Geary Ceary act has been the of keeping out laborers who in the gut guise e of merchants Every f Source source irce of the wily Oriental nature has n expended on devices for making borers into merchants Yet here come Se se two boards and ask that every be made a merchant to all intents and purposes they want the unrestricted ad- ad ision jon of salesmen If their wish were med Vied out the very first steamer from ima pa would bring 1000 coolies each jh something to sell It might be a ax a ic x of handkerchiefs or a last years year's rd d nest but each would be duly and I formally accredited as a salesman from some house in Canton or I Next that resolution calls for the admission admission admission ad ad- adI I mission of every Chinese clerk There w would be a million Chinese clerks ready to take advantage of such a law the moment moment moment mo mo- mo- mo ment the knowledge of its passage was disseminated For a silver yen any Chinaman could get a paper declaring that he was the clerk of some merchant broker or tradesman of China In fact I Ithe the Chinese of our Chinatown c could uld easily easily easily ily send for a million clerks to fill the demands which their business would suddenly make upon them I 4 Buyers is the next class which the resolution wants admitted without re restraint re- re The The- wonderful commissions which Chinese buyers would at bring to this country would i the dreams of Aladdin They would come in n hordes to buy everything from I Ith th the Indi Indian o oil on the Capitol at Washington Washing Washing- ton to George Newhall Newhall's S castoff trouser trouser- ings and arid the resolutions ions of regard which the growers grain-growers of California have not passed respecting the transactions of George McNear Bo Bookkeepers and accountants are also alsoto alsoto alsoto to come trooping in under those strange resolutions which somebody drew up for the tw two o boards Every last Chinaman Chinaman Chinaman China China- man would come across with a set of a ac account account ac- ac count books and an abacus or swan pan and declare himself an expert in figuring figuring figuring figur figur- ing profit and loss and cent percentage Then the resolution goes on to include managers store storekeepers bankers and cashiers As the cashiers and bankers w who ho come this way would probably have havethe havethe havethe the officers of the law close upon their he heels ls there might be little danger of opening the gates to them but the Chinaman who could not set up as a manager w would be entitled to toa a a. place in the home for feeble minded Untold millions of Chinese could be turned Into managers in no time in case there was any ny question about their qualifying qualify qualify- ing as clerks accountants buyers salesmen etc Making 1 a manager would be one of the easiest and simplest tricks of the Chinese immigration bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau So that resolution re really lly means unrestricted Chinese immigration |