| Show HE COULD NOT COME IN WHITE men and mongolians Mongo lians are putting potting their heads together for the purpose of devising an effective method of evading the geary chinese exclusion law the latest attempt in that line to i rather ludicrous A chinaman has presented resented himself for admission to the united united states on the ground that he is a british subject and that as such he has a right to enter and leave this country at will this thia case presents a now new phase of the question the united states being under treaty obligations with to admit the subjects of the latter country untrammeled this thin particular chinaman was not permitted to benefit by this pretext and it Is in not likely that the british lion will show his teeth and wish paish his tail over the action of this country in the promises premises he would make himself ridiculous it if he did the chinaman evidently did not becomes a naturalized for the ibe purpose of remaining within the boundaries of great Brit Britain ains 8 territorial dominion but to escape from it and enter that of the united states it la is not to be supposed that england would permit its naturalization laws to be used as aa a means of enabling the chi nese to evade the laws of this country th agitation aroused by the geary exclusion statute is becoming dally daily more intense A great many white people are opposed to it on the ground that they believe it to be unconstitutional steps are being taken to have its constitutionality tested we hope it will be pushed through that process as aa speedily as possible many I 1 prominent men take the ground in these times however tot that the country has virtually no written constitution the will of the people being superior to it if it really has come to a point when the tribunal of popular opinion takes precedence of the supreme law of the land the geary bill may be reasonably considered valid from that standpoint unfortunately the popular will is not infrequently widely separate from that which is right and just |
