| Show THE CHINESE IN DANGER on the athor the time allotted to the chinese within which th they ey could secure certificates of protection will expire after that time any chinaman found without such certificate Is liable to arrest imprisonment for one year and bernst sent out of the united states this refers however only to cow common mon 11 chinese those who have capital invested in the country as merchants laun laundrymen drymon or of otherwise to some extent being exempt from this provision of the law although it is reported that in many cases cam these theme have also taken out certificates in order that assurance may be made doubly sure while on the other hand band thousands of laborers have not done so and it is quite Dro probable bable that the greater creator part of these will not relying no doubt upon the advice of the six companies as fol follows lowe the registration law is not right AU all the authorities we have consulted agree t to this we have employed five attorneys to go to washington at the supreme court to fight this unjust law wait until may ath before you do anything wait and we will help you the chinese minister has gone to the head men of the government to get decisions ci and we hope to get gee them soon in order that our people may not be arrested and sent to j jail ail if those decisions are favorable as an we think they will be you will not be sent to jail an eastern paper of general fairness and which particularly la is not tainted with groundless prejudice against again kt the celestials celesti als asks how long the six companies propose to wait for the decisions and says the immediate question is not whether the registration lw la is right fight but whether it la Is law that it makes a discrimination against the chinese to la obvious bit that has been true of all the otner other laws relating to their immigration for the last ten years the present statute it says is primarily intended iut not to get them out of the country but to prevent others from coming in it Is a means of executing previous laws which have hitherto been evaded in order to prevent a furtner violation of the laws a special record Is to be made of the chi chinese nese laborers who are here and to all who are here a certificate of residence will be given baere fore the advice of the six companies r toll howalt wait until may 5 before you do anything is not good the six companies may themselves have waited the better part of eleven months before doing anything decisive but that Is no reason for limiting these thousands ot of to one day fir doing doln something ta abat hat may be of great im the six companies should find out at once whatever they propose to find out the better part of the days remaina ought to be available avail sole for notifying the chinese Chine tse scattered all through the country to hasten to the collectors of revenue for registration unless it is promptly and surely ascertained that registration is not necessary and that the penalties threatened will nut bo be enforced in plain terms the chinese on an american s 41 would do fully as well to drop the chinese method of doing things and confirm to what is required of them until ome dome other method Is prescribed they will gain nothing by any other policy and may lose much |
