Show THE TIfE YELLOW W PERIL f Only the other day far Western Senators and ana Representatives were as assuring their colleagues and r the American public that all business busi ess and social elements on the Pacific coast stud and in San Francisco 1 and nd California Californi particularly were were united in iri deV deI de- de V I j ahding a Chinese exclusion act eve even more drastiC dras- dras r tiC in character than the present Geary law That jey eJ ay were has been the general understanding niong the people from Portland Maine l to Portland Port- Port Jand land and Oregon and it will be an unpleasant sur- sur pris a and d a positive shock to them to learn on the C undeniable authority that they have been mistaken p ista en if if not misled as to the real facts of the c case e. e v It that f far Mr r from desiring an extreme measure of exclusion th the leading commercial men menI I and organizations of San Francisco denounce the bills hills now before Congress ss and call upon the Gov Gov- eminent and the California Senators and i to effect modifications so that as stated n identical resolutions passed by the Chamber of i Commerce and Merchants Merchants' Exchange of San Franci Francisco Fran- Fran ci cisco co the measure to be pa parsed sed shall grant entrance into the United States to all mer- mer merchants merchants chants and members of the mercantile class of Chiba Chiha such as salesmen clerks bookkeepers act ac- ac t managers storekeepers bankers and cashiers i cashiers The excuse offered for this amazing action i i is that the proposed exclusion bills now pending in inthe inthe the view of the protesting organizations or ons may maybe be construed to so restrict estrict the entrance of the mer v cantile cantlIe class of China into the United States as to tobe tobe be harmful to our mercantile mercantil inter interests ts In the resolutions attention is called to the importance of conserving the trade of San Francisco with the Chin Chinese se Empire which including Hong Kong amounted in 1890 1800 to and in 1900 1000 had hall to a avalue value of Officers of the i Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants Merchants' Exchange Ex- Ex t. t change h ng a ai that this splendid commerce will be unless the freedom of the country be extended ex ex- ex- ex tended nd d to o the he Chinese ings business class including Traveling agents and as above defined The proposition as s s transparent as it is l i I pr p sH op is startling To begin with the encouraging expansion J sion ion of S Sin San n Francisco's trade with China during the thet 1 t I last st decade of the nineteenth century and amounting amount amount- ing to almost eleven million dollars in value vahie all all' occurred while bile the tIle Geary law was in force Therefore There There- fore it is allowable to assume that whatever further further fur fur- ther hel increase of interchange Chinese needs nee ls and American abilities and vice versa might call for I r. r w be realized were the present policy continued j l The plea for the unrestricted entrance of Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- b nese nese se salesmen clerks buyers buyei bookkeepers aco ac- ac o managers storekeepers bankers hankers and is not worth orth dignifying by discussion F 1 Possibly f it may delude the people in the remoter regions egions gi ns of New ew England or in the mountains of Eastern astern Kentucky Tennessee but wherever it iia lias been the privilege of American citizens to see I Chinaman the idea will be treated with ridicule Irti b be a tt poor specimen of the Celestial indeed vif o cb could ld not prove himself yone ne of the excepted and aid a acceptable acc varieties of immigrant under the tho th arrangement ment proposed by the San Francisco Francisc combination comb com corn com b i 1 It is is' what one ine might call an exceedingly gaudy scheme but one which we do donot not for a moment believe be be- liev lieve will work The labor organizations of f the Coast are re up-inar up ns about it already and to th their ir representations representations to Congress will be added those of ry oLei-ry i every ry I L labor labor union in the countr country In the end we feel satisfied satisfied sat that the mercantile mercantil class of China will be invited to co operate cooperate with the their l' l bland and elusive eluse e e Coolie c congeners from Canton in ill remaining strictly away from froni our shores |