| Show CHINA FINDS A WAY the treaty between mexico and china which according to recent dispatches to is about to be ratified is of peculiar interest on account of the great trouble experienced by the united states lately in trying to exclude that class of foreigners from our shores the treaty gives the chinese the right not only to reside in the mexican states but also to become citizens on the same terms as other foreigners A chinese minister to is to take up his residence in the mexican capital and steamship communication is 18 to be established between the two countries in exchange for these courtesies china grants mexican citizens the same privileges as those accorded to the celestials Celesti als in ID mexico the advantage of this treaty is beyond doubt all on the part of the mongolians Mongo lians no mexicans would be likely to aspire to citizenship in the chinese empire already overpopulated indeed the feeling toward strangers among the people of china at least in the interior is in such that even under treaty guarantees their lives jives would not be quite safe as was evidenced not long ak ago 0 by the cruel murder of two missionaries who ventured a little too far beyond the influence of the protecting foreign consulates the chinese on the other hand band have every reason to swarm out of the over crowded country in order to find the means of subsistence and the privileges granted to them by mexico are all that even the most sanguine of them could desire the question will now be in order what effect this treaty to is likely to have in relation to the exclusion law re bently enacted by the united states it if a mongolian has required acquired clit zenshin in mexico can he under existing treaties be excluded from abi abia country because of his birthplace birth place or will it be necessary for our govern ment meat to enter into now new agreements agree menta with our neighbor in the south in order to keep the geary law in force on the face of it it looks as if it would be difficult to make a satisfactory arrange ment with mexico whereby part martof of her citizens are prohibited from enter ing upon united states soil and unless some gome such understanding can be haap had it is clear that the mexican treaty with china is simply a side door through which any number of mongolians Mongo lians can overrun this country in spite of all exclusion laws hitherto framed the suspicion is very near too that that to is the real object of the treaty the chinese chloese government Is i known not to favor emigration and certainly not to encourage the aliena tion of its subjects in foreign lands what can then the purpose be of ask ing for such rights in a country border ing on our it if not to obtain ingress to this country denied by law it seems seem as if chinese diplomacy had once more made a move on the al chessboard which will give our statesmen an opportunity to display all their skill before it is effectually counteracted ter acted the united states being an interested party our representative in mexico ought to be heard before that treaty is finally ratified |
