Show president says bars have not been let down to chinese oyster bay july 12 Immigration to the united states and its relations to ahe labor problem formed the subject of a conference afternoon between the president and two leaders of or banged ganged labor samuel gompers 0 washington and james duncan of quincy mass respectively the pres dent and one of the vice president of the american federation of labor the conference was devoted part lCK barly 0 a consideration of an order issued by the president regarding tha chinese exclusion law an impression had been gained by many members of labor organizations that the order to an extent abc least let down gration barriers so far as chinese are concerned the president assured bis callers however that no such construction st properly could be placed up on the order and that be was just as vigorously opposed to the admission adms sion to this country of chinese coolies a they could be mr gompers urged upon the president the desirability for an intelligent practical and humane consideration of the general question of immigration by the people and by congress the people of this country and of the whole civilized world are entitled he maintained to such a consideration of tho problem we directed the presidents attention said mr gompers after the conference to the interpretation placed by some persons on bis recent order issued at the instance of the american asiatic association concerning the admission to the united states of chinese by many of our people flad by many chinese that order was looked upon as a letting down of the immigration bars so far as the chinese are concerned the president assured us that no proper reading of the order would warrant such an interpretation and nothing was further from bis intention that such an impression coula be gotten from the order his determination Is that skilled and unskilled chinese laborers shall be excluded from tbt united states and be gays he law will be rigidly enforced ROOSEVELT PAYS TO MEDICAL SCIENCE tells associated physicians of long island of what medical men are dolog for panama canal project oyster bay I 1 I 1 july IS President roosevelt delivered a notable speech this afternoon before the associated physicians of long island he discussed in the cours of hi speech the physicians sustain with abo people ot the communities in which they reside and the work to be done by the medical experts in connection with tho construction of the panama canal declaring that despite all difficulties on the isthmus and here in the united states the canal would be A success he referred to the ments of tho sanitary engineers ohp cleaned the cities of cuba for the first time in years and closed by pay ing a tribute to the services of general leonard wood whose career as a military officer be said was fouled by some critics because he only bad ben a doctor A majority of physicians in attendance reached oyster bay on a special train af 3 dressed in a suit of rough linen and wearing d broad brimmed panama hat the president arrived at the oyster bay high school where the meeting was held at 3 15 p m he was escorted to the assembly hall where he was accorded a cordial reception by abs tbs physicians all standing at the conclusion of the presed ends address and at mr roose belts own suggestion an informal reception was held each member of the association being presented to the president atter the president had retired from the hall the association unanimously elected him and general leonard honorary members of the society the president in bis address said it is needless to say that there Is not and cannot be any other profession te members of which occupy such a dual position each side of which Is of such importance for on the one hand he must be the most thoroughly educated man in applied science that there is in the country and on the other hand as every layman knows and doubtless many a layman in aba circle of acquaintance of each would gladly testify the doctor gradually becomes the closest friend to more different people than would be possibly pos in any other profession the feelings that a man has toward the one human being to whom he turns either in time of sickness for himself or what is far more important n the time of sickness 0 chose closest and to ahro cannot but be 0 a peculiar kind he can but have a feeling for him such as be has for no other manthe doctor must therefore to the greatest degree develop blib sides of his nature develop his nature alone the two eldes of his duties although in the case of any other man you would call him a mighty good citizen if he developed only one side the scientific man who is really a flost class scientific man has a claim upon ane gratitude of al the country tha man who la the first class helgn 1 bor and Is always called to in time of trouble by his neighbors has an equal claim upon society at large but the doctor has both claims yet in addition to both of these functions he may fill many other functions he may have served in the civil war ha ma have rendered tha greatest possible service to 9 community along a doen different lines take for instance just what is being done jn one of the great work of this country at the present time digging the panama canal this la a work thai only a big nation could undertake or that a big nation could do and Is a wk for all mankind and the condition precedent upon success in that work s having the proper type of medical men direct the work as a preliminary that was ha first condition unon the meeting of which depends aur success in solving the engineering and ad problems 0 the work it belt I 1 am happy to say that the work is being admirably done and I 1 am particularly glad to have chance 0 paying it now and then smallpox will come from panama just a couple ot weeks ago there seemed to be a succession of people coming up from panama each one of whom had some tale or other to tell you will always find in any battle even i it I 1 a victory that in tha rear you meet number of gentlemen who are glad that they are not at the front who it they have unfortunately gotten at the aront have come away and who justify their absence from the front by heuing tales of how everything has gone wrong there now the people who flee from panama will carry up here just such stories as the people who flee from the fire of the front of a battle carry to the rear with them the people who this country owes the most are the ones who stay down there and do not talk but do work and do it well ot course in doing a great dihe that in the tropics n a region until whick this government took hold of it was accounted to be a region exceptionally unhealthy we expected to havo trouble have some wever have a good deal of malarial fever and suf fer more from the latter than from the yellow ever although we will hear nothing like the talk about it we will have every now find then troubles as regard hygiene just as we will have troubles in the engineering problems just as occasionally we will have trouble in the administrative work whenever ope of these troubles corn there wll be a large number 0 excellent but timid wen who will at once say what awful calamity it is and express the deepest sorrow md concern and be rather inclined to the belief that the whole thing Is a failure it will not be a failure it will be a success and it will be a success be cause we shall treat every little check not as a reason tor abandoning the work but as a reason for altering and bettering our plans so as to make it impossible that that particular check shall happen again what is being done n panama is but a sample of the things that this country has done during the last few years of the things in which your profession has been so prominent a part take what we did in cuba where ve tried the experiment which had not been tried or years of cleaning the cities one of the roost important items of the work done by our government in cuba is the work of hygiene the work of cleaning and dis infecting the cities so as tp minimize the chance for yellow fever so as to do away with as many as possible of the conditions that told for disease this country has never done better work work that reflected more honor upon the country for humanity at large than the dane in cuba and the man who above all others will be responsible for doing that so well was a member of your profession and when the call to arms came he himself went as a soldier to the field the pres i ent major general wood leanard Lep nard did n cuba just the kind of work that for instance biord cromer has done in egypt we have not been able to reward wood in anything ake the proportion that services cervices vices such as his would have been rewarded in any other country of the first rank in the world and there has been no meaner and no unpleasant manifestations in all our public history than the feelings of envy and jealousy manifested toward wood and the foul assaults and attacks made upon hm gentlemen was largely because they grudged the tact that this admirable military officer should have been a doctor |