Show THE SUPREME COURTS DECISION when properly viewed and carefully considered it la is really something to be pleased with that the first bulletin regarding the action of the supreme court of the united states as to the beary geary law jav was misleading it caused us to u understand uder stand that the bench was unanimous with one exception and he be the newest appointee but one the plain effect of which would have been the deportation of the chinese almost in a body it now turns out that three of the judges including justice fuller a and D d the california judge field were R against gal flat the opi opinion aion of the court and there was one absentee judge harlan with only one dhe enter the decision of the court would have hive been irrevocable but with three and possibly lour four out of nine against it now add ind a rehearing ordered better things way may be looked for the NEWS realizes how bow unpopular it is in certain qu arters to demand even justice for the chinese but that does not matter in the least they are entitled to bit it and this thia great enlightened progressive christian nation cannot afford to deny it if the decree to that end by the lawmaking law making powers had bad been upheld as a finality there would have been but one thing to do let jet the mongolians Mongo lians be ejected without resist ance but with a rehearing everything becomes possible and the temper of the people 0 ale when pru properly perly and understand I 1 angly ng ly appealed tu to sometimes some timea taked such a shape that even our highest legal tribunal finds it inconsistent with public loloy to oppose there are many reasons why the chinese who are now in the united should not go unless they desire t 11 i do so but only two of them joeed to be considered now in many perhaps a majority of cases they nave have acquired a business footing here which has grown and to a greater or less extent taken root in our commercial gal this has been by our implied if not expressed permission and under the prote clon ion if nit dt the encouragement of our car system such business has hae thus grown into a vested right which we can no do more overthrow and maintain t undisturbed our status as a constitutional government than we coult could were the people of the south to be upheld in the accumulator earnings of the negroes and DA n 4 only the i and the great burden of the sentiment of the country are against it but christianity must or of necessity rray array itself as ad a solid wall in resistance to such encroachment the other consideration Is 18 th the comity of nations relaxed som somewhat e what in the case of the other power being behind the age but still not ly violated in any case allied with this is the rightfulness of retaliation for measures of oppression or failure to redress grievances the upholding and enforcement of the geary law would justify the chinese government io in summarily eum marily banishing from its territory every american citizen or sympathizer high or low rich or poor no do matter what the hardships might be honor nor the losses ibises that might result we u dera der cand stand quito quit readily that there are not as many americans americana in china as an there are chinese in america but those of our race who are there would prefer to stay till they get ready to leave and it is not net just to them to precipitate a situation that would make them do otherwise this would naturally lead to a suspension of diplomatic relations and perchance to war neither of which the chinese government with its half a billion of people ltd ita vast territory and its barbarous methods of fighting would care for half as much an we would beaure it was all over at the same time it is not wise nor judicious to permit the celestials Celesti als to come without restriction or impediment nor yet to leave unchecked and without restraint n t those that are already here they are non assimilative and thus add nothing to the count rys growth area are a close corporation po ration wherever they may be and so contribute nothing to its wealth have not progressed an iota in 2000 years and by reason thereof are stumbling blocks aldag the highway of advancement and are for the most part inconvertible pagans and a mockery to our christianity we own ofin get along very well have bave done so in fact with those that are already here a and ad it if properly distributed could manage with a slight but regulated increase for among other things they are faithful servants and unequaled cleansers but however this may all ail be let us see to it that no DO outrages are perpetrated by and that nothing ito in the nature of rank injustice shall be permitted to stain our public records |