The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1901, Page 2

2 FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1901 BRILLIANT SPEAKERS POINT OUT THE DANGERS OF CHINESE IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA’S SHORES OPENING ADDRESS BY MAYOR PHELAN Author of Exclusion Act Chosen to Preside Over the Big State Gathering. Continued From Page One. ago, when, by a plebiscital referendum, it was detérmined that ninety-nine per cent of the population were against immigration, 1t must have an effect such as we design to make upon the minds of our brethren in the East We are the warders by the Golden Gate; we must stand here forever in the pathway of the Orient, and if there is any danger or trial it is for s to sound the alarm. Hence our meeting here to-day. The only man who is in favor of Chinese | immigration in this city, so far as I know, is he who believes that labor must be regarded simply by its capacity for work: who regards production as more important than the char- acter of the population; and who, when told, | as I have told them, that the influx of unlim- | ited immigration would overwhelm this_coun- try and_destroy our civilization, give the an- swer, ““Well, that i= a long time off, and after me the deluge.” They take none but that | narrow view, and we are here in a charitable | spirit to enlighten their consclence, to impress upon the people of the East the importance &nd gravity of this question, and to memorial- ize Congress. There will be read or delivered before you ad- dresses by gentlemen who have carefully stud- fed the various aspects of this question, its commercial gide. Why, our commerce With China has increased sinde 1380, when exclusion became effective, from twenty-six _millions, the total of our exports and our Imports at that time, to over thirty-six millions, and we stand second to Great Britain alone, accord- | ing to the latest consular reports, in the vol- ume of our trade with China. In spite of our exclusion policy, therefore, our commerce and trade have advanced, and our diplomatic re- | lations bave actually Improved, because it was due to the magnanimity of this country that | China was allowed to come out of the recent | war with an undivided territory. (Applause.y In view of all those circumstances, 1 believe that great good will come from this conv tion if these gentlemen who will address you will confine themselves to facts and to argu- ments. We have men here representing trade, commerce and labor; we have them represent- | ing the mines and the orchards; we have them representing skilled and unskilled indus- ry; but, above ali we have them here a R citizen. re,resenting our institutions our civilization.” (Applause.) Various Aspects of Question. I bave taken simply, for your information, a | brief view of the several mspects of the ques- tion. That is, I regard it as a labor guestion; 1 regard it as a race question; I regard it as &n international question, and, above and over &ll, & question involving the preservation of cur civilization. That leads you perhaps to imagine, from the inviting prospect, that I will | exhaustively discuss these various phases of the | guestion. That I will not do. But 1 cannot | impress too strongly upon the convention the | importance of bringing out, as will be done, | these several views. The operatives in the cotton mills at Shang- hai are paid upon an average of 20 to 34 cents | & day in silver, being from to 18 cents dally in gold, the workmen boarding and lodg- ing themselves. That is a sufficient argument, I think, on the labor side of the question to | £how the wages which they receive, as 1 have gathered them here, and will submit them to the gentleman who has that phase of the ques- tion in charge. and It runs down the line fh all the | industries of China, showing the very low | wages which are paid. We know in this coun- ry that the Chinese came here under the Bur- lingame treaty and worked for very low wages nd the scale has steadily advanced until they get_now very nearly what is paid to white Workingmen in the various industries in Which both engage. That is becauge the Chinese pop ulation in California has diminished, it ha gone down, due to the migration of these peo- pie to other States. In New York. In 1880 there Swere about 150 Chinese. day there are 7500. | And so in other States. California has made | her contribution of Chinese to other States, | ond that is the only reason why she should | suffer at the hands of other States and their representatives. But the Chinese are free to move when once they come into this country &nd they havé, fortunately for us, emigrated 0 | other States. A great argument has been made that it Is | the productiveness which would come from the | employment of cheap labor that would give this country &n economic advantagein the mar- | kets of the world. That can be easily answered, | When we remember that the productive energy of the American people to-day is greater per capita than the productive energy of the | people of other countries (applause); that ma- | chinery which is due largely to American in vention has been the cause to g great extent | ©f that productiveness, and that if we progress ®s we have progressed in that direction cer- | tainly we will have all we can do to take care of our surplus products to -prevent over- production and stagnation There are in this country to-day, you know, | @bout 76,000,000 of people. If we increase at the rate of 12 per cent per decade, wh Teasonable, we will have nearly 230,000,000 of Deople in ‘the United States In one bundred | years. Our inventive genius and constant im- | provements being made in machi will greatly, therefore, improve our per capita pro- ductive capacity and enable us to Increase our wealth and hold our own in the markets of the world. We certainly are doing it now, and no | doubt can continue to do it and at the same Lime preserve the character of our population. at is s the great guestion, towering above even the question of labor—the race question. It has been said that the South will vote | sgainst us on the question of Chinese immi- gration on account of racial difficulties there. But the South has had its lesson on the race Question, and will it inflict another race ques- tion upon the country? It would be accusing the Eouth of a lack of interest in the success of the American republic to say 8. They are golving their race question as best they may. | Their solution of it may not be & good solu- tion; but they are afflicted, as the result of #lavery in the early days of its development there, with a great evil, which certainly every well-wisher in_this land desires that they be relieved of. They are wufering the conse- gquences of that sin, it may be sald, which has been transmitted to us when the easy consclence | ©f our forefathers permitted African slavery, | e question is to-day almost, and it must be regarded as, a question of slavery because ) mn‘ue do not come voluntarily | y are slaves in every substantial meanin, ©of the word, because they come here unld’g\ contracts, and it has been sald that if the Six Chinese Companies of San Francisco should o out of business there would be no Chinese immigration. These people do not move volun. HERE IS THE Shoe for Winter| MEN'S HEAVY CALF, Three-Sole, Extension Edge, Leather Lined. All Widths and Sizes. Saturday Special, $2.45. LIPPITT & FISHER, 94;5 Market St. | | me. | upon the same lines. | all climes, tarlly. They are attached to thelr native land, and they come here under contract. The peo- ple East are resisting now, through immigra- tion laws, the importation of a servile or an inferior race. From every country ‘come men who are sent back from Castle Garden to the old lands because they come, if you please, under contract, or can show no means of sup- port. They on the Eastern coast are strug- gling with a question compared to which the Chinese question is of so much importance that when that fact is presented they will certainly yield to our demands. It seems to me perfectly idle, were I not fa- | miliar with the conditions in the East, to argue this question, but the newspaper reports during the last two months from almost every center bring news printed in their columns and edito- rial expressions, showing a condition of the mind of the East which is inimical to the in- terests of this country on this question of Chi- nese immigration, and it is our duty to address ourselves, politely but firmly, to these geritle- men and create a public sentiment which will certainly reach the halls of Congress. It is the most potent instrument we have in this free country of creating a sound public sentiment, and 1 know of no better way than through this convention, called here by officlal author- ity and representing in its composition the best interests of the State of California, the State most familiar with the question and most ex- posed to its dangers. (Applause.) It is now in order for this convention to effect a temporary organization. I may say that no arrangements have been made in that respect. There are many distinguished gentlemen who have come from all parts of the State who, no doubt, are eligible to service, and nominations Wwill now be in order for temporary chairman. "MADE CHAIRMAN OF THE CONVENTION Author of Chinese Exclusion Law Tells Why It Should Be Re-enacted. After the conclusion of Mayor Phelan’s address nominations for temporary chair- man were declared to be in order. Mayor Snyder of Los Angeles was placed in nomination. Thomas Geary, author of the exclusion act, was named and the nomination was received with cheers. Mayor Snyder in withdrawing his name said there was only one man who should preside over the body and that man was Tom Geary. This announcement was also greeted with hearty applause. A repre- sentative of the _Stonecutters’ Union nominated Mayor Phelan, but the latter gracefully declined in favor of Mr. Geary. Upon motion the nominations were de- clared closed and Mr. Geary was selected temporary chairman by acclamation. Mr. Geary took the platform amid enth siastic cheering and was introduced to the assemblage by Mayor Phelan. i Mr. Geary's address of acceptance fol- ow Fellow-citizens of California: I am deeply grateful to you for the honor you have shown I feel that it would be idle for me to at- tempt In words to thank you or to show my ap- preciation for the honor you have conferred upon me. This convention, GEARY meeting at this peculiar | time, is to my mind the most potent instru- | ment that could have been chosen to manifest 10 the people of the East that the story that California has changed her mind upon the question of Aslatic immigration is_at least erfonepus, if not absolutely false. These peo- ple have been deceived to think we have under- gone a change. Because for several years the State has been saved and freed from a need- less agitation of this question was not evidence that we had undergone a change of sentiment, but that we anmreciated the ract that the evil had been complaining of was being reme- and we were satisfied. Callifornia, through this convention, will tell the people of the East that she is as loyal as she ever was to her laboring population, and as determined ever to protect them (cheers), not only by preventing the introduction of the products of the cheap man, but will prevent the intro- duction of the cheap man himself. (Renewed cheers.) It is not necessary, in my opinfon, to make a speech upon this quéstion to this eonventior¥or o any assemblage of Californians. From the experience of the past we know the lesson too well to need its repetition to us. But to the people in the East, providentially saved from the experience that has been ours, we owe to them a duty that we shall give to them the | lescon, that they may be warned in time to avoid the danger thai we have been combating for years. We owe it to those people that we shall place before them a fair, reasonable, can- did, temperate statement of what we know about this race during the time it has sojourned in our midst. There is no room here and this is no place for abuse or vituperation. We must recognize conditions as we find them. Through- out the Eastern States we shall find in many sections bitter opponents of this class of legis- lation, and those people honestly believe that they are right and we are wrong, and we must labor with them and convince them of their er- ror before we can have thelr assistance and support. (Applause.) We shall find there or- ganized combinations anxious to defeat ex- clusion from selfish motives. With them we can do nothing. But they, happily, represent but a small portion of the people of the United States, because I believe throughout all seo- tions Of the East there is that careful regard for the rights of American labor that you need but show them that this exclusion is necessary to secure it. Our position on the Chinese question some of these people would represent as being purely peculiar to California. There never was a greater error. Our experience has been the ex- perience of every other portion of the earth Where the Chinése have gone in numbers, Aus. tralia, all of the British possessions, have passed exclusion laws as we have. All of the republics to the south of us have complained about the presence of these people. In the same vear that the act which is now about to ex- pire was passed far-away Brazil passed a law All classes of people, in recognize the undesirability of the Agiatic as a citizen or a laborer. € are not, in my opinton, goin casy” contest,’ no ‘matter. how casy it el o made to appear now. We must prepare for the greatest battle, in my opinion, we have ever had, in order to preserve the advantages Which we now possess, because conditions that have presented themselves have altered the situation during the past year and give excuse for argument that we will have to meet and combat. I have no fear but what the California | delegation in Congress to-day is as effective and as earnest and will do as able work 1 their people as any delegation ever did in the past; but we must help. It is not fair to expeot them to do it all. And on this convention will devolve the work of alding our representatives 80 that exclusion may be made certain. Last night over the wires came really the first promise of substantial assistance. that we have ever received in this campalgn, the prome ise that the distinguished President of the United States (great applause) would recom- mend to Congress that the bars be not let down, but, it needs be, fnade higher, (Applause cheers for the President i 5. T and cries of *'Good our Mayor spoke about the comme: - pects of this aificulty which we. mace. aces I am not a pessimist In the matter of trade expansion, but from the knowledge I have of the Chinese people and Chinese industry I can- not unite with these people who fancy that in the future China is to be a great market for American products. Before any people can be great customers they must have something to exchange, and at the present time China, locked up in the conservatism of centurles, unwilling to develop her own material advantages, offers no marlst to the white people at all. But this argument will be used and most substan. tially, that in order that our commerce may have expansion we must make concessions to the Chinese; in other words, for commerce we must betray the happiness and the welfare of the white American laborer. Commerce at that price costs too much. We will have our share of the commerce of China, but we will get it without sacrificing the happiness or welfare of oné single white American toiler in this land, (Applause.) Labor has no_opposition to the expansion "of commerce. No people in this country are more interested in enlarging the trade of the United States than the men who toil in field and farm, in factory agd in shop, and create the things which are to the inl struments of commerce or carry on exchange. Every market opened for the product of fthe American factory or farm is an increase of the advantage to the American laborer in its pro- duction. So when_ these people try to male us understand or believe that there must be &n antagonism between labor and commerce they mistake the fundamental princinle that without labor there can be no commerce. We have followed an industrial policy for many years Which had as its cornerstoge the protection of American labor, in the firm be- lief that if protected long enough against the products ‘of cheap labor the world over we would reach such a state of efficlency that even with paying better es, with greater advantages to our labor we would find so much greater productive ability that we couald over- I JAa1D " =va SvE GET IO ~vasHiING Torl ED.LEAKE ,of wooOLAND HomMINATED H rTTAsoN Fom TEMPoRAR CHaRMAN aNo {HASTED VPor Hlf ELECTION Iayor DER , OF Loy mNGELES , THREW UP T 1IN THE TEMORAR CHAIRMA SWALKER OF QAKLAND , As STARTLED AT _fgnz oF THE CRATORS - ' ,' —p | Lout ~aLLEN/TERN JusT usED Hif €£ARS — H.'sfa No{!umc TojA}’ LR SOME OF THE MEN WHO TOOK MORE OR LESS PROMINENT PARTS IN THE OPENING SESSION OF THE CHINESE EXCLUSION CONVENTION AT THE METROPOLITAN TEMPLE YESTERDAY AFTEK~NOON, AS SEEN BY A CARTQONIST OF THE CALL STAFF. — % come the disadvantage of the cheap products of cheaper lands. The industrial supremacy that we may rightly claim to-day is the resuit of a policy which protected labor during al these years. This is not the day to change the industrial policy of the nation and sacrifice our labor for any purpose or any object. (Ap- plause.) We will go on as we have commenced until we become the commercial mistress of the world. We will load our ships in the ports of San Francisco and New York and our numer- ous other ports, ships built by American labor; we will load them to the hatches With the product of American looms, American factories and American farms, and we will send them out into the highways of the world, there to challenge the products of all other people, con- fident that in the superiority of our production, in the intelligence and integrity of our laborers, in the increased efficiency, the immense differ- ence in the product, we can conquer all other peoples who oppose us, industrially or other- wise. (Applause.) You are going to have a whole lot of speeches and I don't like to take up any more of your time. (Cries of ““Go on; go on.”) It is getting Jate and there are a lot of other gentlemen to address you. I thank you again for the honor you have conferred on me and only hope to merit the confidence you have shown by my conduct in presiding. TWO SECRETARIES ARE CHOSEN FOR CONVENTION Temporary Organization Is Per- fected After Some Wrangling Among the Delegates. Despite cries to go on, Chairman Geary declined and sald that the next order of business was the nomination of temop- rary secretary. Edwin E. Leake of Wood- land nominated H. S. Mason for the of- fice. Charles B. Schaeffer of Santa Clara was nominated. To avold delay Super- visor Braunhart moved that both men be elected temporary secretaries. This was done by the convention. G. A. Cutler of San Francisco made a motion that a committee on credentlals be appointed. His motion was declared to be indefinite in that it did not state the number to be selected. Ex-Governor James H. Budd offered an amendment to have a committee on memorials, resolu- tions and platform consisting of five from the State at large and three from each Congressional district. An objection was made to the amend- ment by a delegate, who moved that the rollcall presgented by the secretary of the convention be accepted as the rollcall of the convention. The motion was lost, as was also Governor Budd's amendment. The original motion presented by Mr. Cutler as amended to have five delegates Bppmn:led a committee on credentials was adopted. ‘While Chairman Geary was debutlry on his _selections F. E. Johnson of Napa made a motion to have fifteen appointed to act as a committee on permanent or- der of business and organization. The motion was declared out of order. The following gentlemen were appointed a committee on credentials: G. A. Cut- ler, G. E. Rosenberg, C. A. Dunbar, Kirk Hall and E. J. Emmons. Mr. Johnson renewed his motlon to have the committee of fifteen appointed and another storm of disapproval fol- lowed and it was lost. Governor Budd renewed his motion to have ‘a committee on memorials, platforms and resolutions appointed. Certain delegates evidently feared that there was a movement on foot by certain persons to secure control of the convention. They therefore objected to the motion. Despite their protests the motion prevailed. g g Tat CALIFORNIA UNITED ON QUESTION OF EXCLUSION Senator George C. Perkins Urges the Convention to Do Its Duty Fearlessly. G ‘While the committee on credentials was engaged in exeamining the list of dele- gates Chairman Geary called upon Sena- tor George C. Perkins to address the con- vention. The Senator was warmly re- ceived and spoke as follows: Mr, Chairman and fellow-citizens of Califor- nia: Your chairman came to me and said, ““We are old friends, Perkins, and I am in a dilemma. I want you to say something to en- courage me and engage the attention of the convention while I am_selecting this very im- portant committee.”” Having served in Con- gress with him, and knowing his genial and good-hearted nature, how could I do otherwise than favorably respond to his request? And yet in doing so I am very good to myself, because 1 have the pleasure of meeting here to-day 50 many representative citizens of this glorious State of California, coming from every county in the State, representing every industry, com- ing here without collecting any mileage, as all | of your Congressionat delegations collect it, paying your own expenses, because you are st b patriots, because you believe in California, be- cause you believe in your homes. And you are here to show by vour volce and your acts that you belleve in~ American institutions and the dignity of American labor. ~(Applause.) So it 18 10 me a great pleasure and satisfaction to be present here to-day. It is not necessary for me to tell you how I stand upon this or any other public question that has been so long before the public as the Chinese exclusion act has. I have grown up in California, and I have always been on the side of the Caticasian race, because they are the best people God ever made (Applause); and therefore, if we are not true to ourselves we are not true to our country and our homes. | Friends, this is not a political nor a partisan question.' I would like to coin a new name for this splendid assembly of representative men, and I think the name that suggests itself to me is, American ideas of government. Ameri- can ideas of government; that means patriot- ism, it means love of republican institutions, it means that our forefathers, the grand old citizens of this country, crushed out human slavery, and they said that no longer shall servile ‘labor, contract labor, which is worse than slave labor, come in here to compéte with the dignity of labor. (Applause.) The Ameri- can idea of government means the greatest good to the greatest number. It means in this con- vention that we are opposed to the introduction of Asiatic and Mongolian labor because it pulls down and degrades the dignity of labor. . (Re- newed applause.) It means that the Chinese are a non-assimilative race, that theéy come here, get what they can, and go away with it. ‘They have no family, no home, they do nothing to benefit our country; therefore they are a dis- ease upon the body politic, and we would not be true to ourselves, true to our country and our State, if we did not take this action. And I want to thank the authorities of this great clty, this great metropolis of the West, for baving inaugurated the plan of calling to- gether this representative convention of people from every part of our State. Your Congress- men, your Representatives in Congress, have only' one vote, only one voice that we can use there In presenting your wants. And already there is an undercurrent of sentiment coming to us that the extension of this Chinese ex- clusion act will not be smooth sailing for us. There are great interests in this country, there are interests in the Hawaiian Islands that are crying out for servile contract labor, and it is our duty by this very act which you are doing here to-day to say, “No, you shall not come into this country to compete with free Ameri- can labor.” s I have received any number of letters, even in California, in which the writers say, ‘‘Per- kins, we are opposed to Chinese coming in, and'I want to say this parenthetically, they are not going to attack the extension of the Chinese exclusion act and advocate the incom- ing ot the Chinese into this country; they are gomg to move in an insidious, underhand way y saying, “No, we are opposed to Chinese im- migration, they'all go back home; you say they have come here as contract laborers under one of the Six Chinese Companies; they make a contract that they shall be taken back home again, and that if they die thelr bones shall be taken back to China. So we say let this law rest for two years, and then they can come in for that time, ‘there will only be & very few Of them here; let them come in, and they will not come back again, and two years hence we Wil re-enact the law.” That is one of their plans, Another plan is to put the limit at 200,000 Chinese, and when it reaches that number no more shall come in, Then they have another plan that will appéal to our Eastern friends Who are friendly to us and who are opposed to Chinese immigration; that is that adopted by the Dominion ot Canada, by British Co- lumbla, which places a head-tax of $100 upon every Chinaman coming into British Columbia or Canada, and prohibits any vessel from bringing more than one Chinaman for every fitty gross tons of that vessel. That looks feasible; it looks easy. Why shotld any one object to bringing in such a few Chinamen a: that number would be in these vessels? An then we would get $100 tax for each. But, my friends, to-day the Japanese have one of the finest marine steamship companics afloat, and they are bringing immigrants trom the Orient into British Columbia, and wiil bring them by the score into California and the ports on the Atlantic. There are Chinese building ships, and they will bring that peo- ple here. And to-day there are American Ships that are working the Chinese in their firerooms as firemen and as coal passers, in thelr stewards’ department, paying them but from $10 to §15 a month as the maximum, when our Americans, who have thelr families here, who have their homes here, who pay taxes here, are recelving, as they ought to re- ceive, from 335 to 350 a month. (Applause.) How can we compete against that class of la- bor, that class of navigation? And so I want to say to ‘this committee whom Governor Budd has 20 prop- erly should be selected from the different Con- gressional districts of our State, that I hope that in their memorial they will take up and consider all these phases of this great ques- fon, and not be misled when a few orchard- ts who have an individual interest say, “‘Our frult is going to decay because we can't get labor to preserve it.”” I want you to get on a higher plane and say that we don’t want fruit cured or dried or put into the market or canned or sold unless it is canned by Ameri- can boys or American men. (Applause.) It is our people that pay the taxes that have bullt up our splendid institutions, and we should draw the line further, only this is not the time nor the occasion—I ‘would permit no one to come into this country unless he felt as he ng; proached these shores as Moses did when approached the ‘bush, that he stood upon sacred ground; and the volce coming out A of that bush from the American people speak- ing is, ‘'Unless you love freedom, unless you bellevé in the free public schools,. you can't come into this country. (Great appiause.) I want to carry this message back to my colleagues in Congress and say to them that the people of California to-day stand _just where they did twenty years ago, when, through the Legislature which provided the referendum, it was left to the people to give an expression on this question of Chinese im- migration, and there were but $83 votes cast in favor of admitting the Chinese immigrant into this country, and there were 154,38 against it. (Applause.) That is the sentiment of the people to-day, and your delegation in Congress stands shoulder to shoulder to carry out the wishes of the people of this great State. But we want your help, we want your co-operation; and I know the memorial and the resolution you will adopt will supply it, because the electric wires will send it across the contingnt, and it will say to our friends in the East that the people of the great Pacific Coast States are a unit in this question. They ar: the power In the land and we can no longer hesitate, but we will stand in with them and re-enact the Chinese exclusion act. (Applause.) I will not weary you, my friends. We have our Congressmen and others here who wish to speak. 1 only want to say again and again to you that we are the same after election as we_ were before It. We sald then that we only wanted to be the servants of the people, to do that which would meet with your approval, to carry out Your wishes, and if we do that the highest encomium any one can receive is the approval of his fellow citizens. REMOVAL OF CHINATOWN URGED BY A. SBARBORO Strong Address by President of Man- ufacturers’ and Producers’ Association. 'flle next address was delivered by A. Sbarboro, president of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association. He presented the issue as it affects the people of San Francisco, and particularly urged the removal of Chinatown. His address in full was as follows: Mr. President and Members of the Conven- tion: Once more we are called on to take measures to defend our State from the threat- ened Chinese invasion. Every important county in Calitornia is here represented by delegates chosen from its legislative, commercial and in- dustrial organizations. California is vitally in earnest over this question of Chinese exclusion, for California knows better than any other part of the country the seriousness of unre- stricted Chinese immigration. The citizens of this State are determined that the blighting experience of the past shall not be repeated, it effort on our part can prevent it. The Chinese began coming to this country upon the discovery of gold in California with other peoples from all parts of the world. It was not long before it was found out that the Chinese were an undesirable race. I re- member taking part in the formation of anti- Chinese clubs In every district of San Fran- clsco as early as 1860. For thirty years this agitation against the admission of the Mongol was kept up and the people of the Pacific Coast almost unanimously appealed time and ugain to Congress for a rellef from the in- pouring of the Chinese to California. Finally Congress listened to our prayers and passed the Geary excluslon bill, which, although it did not entirely keep out Chinese laborers, served to Mmit them to such a number as to modify the harm to our people, and let me say right_here that the State of California owes Mr, Geary an unpaid debt of gratitude for the most valuable services which he rendered to the State and to the Pacific Coast. The force of this bill will soon expire and unless the next Corigress re-enacts this meas- ure we will goon again be flooded by hordes of Chinese, a disaster of terrible menace to the peace, harmony and happiness of the people of California. All_the evils which caused the passage of the Geary bill exist to-day and they exist more strongly than ten years ago. We have had now fity years of experience with the Chinese among us. The more we know of them the more We see the necessity of excludi them from our shores. Other speakers wi enumerate the many reasons why we object to Chinese immigration. Let me point out only a few of them. The Chinese, as has been proved by decades, take back With them to China all the property accumulations which they make in this coun‘ry and leave us only their vices and diseases. They dwell among us in fiith. They have made in the center of this fair city a dis- trict the very name of which Is synon: with disease, dirt and unlawful deeds. defy our laws. they gamble in hundreds of DG T S an ey ev its. noxious stenches, ik ane Dr. Willlamso n his annual to Board 'of Health: says that Chinatown shouig be removed. I fully agree with him. He says turther: “Chinatown, as it is at present, can; rendered sanitary except by total oblll!::: 'y It should be depopulated, its bufldings lev by fire and its tunnels and cellars laid base Its occupants should be colonized on some dls: tant portion of the peninsula, where every building should be constructed under strict municipal regulation and where every violation Yected: The G2y has paseed when a ncs S . a sive city ltke San ol o SENATOR PERKINS SOUNDS A WARNING Arguments in Favor of Exclusion Are Heartily the Con Cheered by vention. Continued From Page One. ‘would result in the dogradation and dc- struction of American labor. The Sena- tor went on to say that he would draw the line on all immigration to this coun- try, and say to the na¥comers that they were on sacred ground. and that if they did not believe in frecdom, our public | schools and all of our institutions. they should not be permitt2d to land on our shores. He was followed with a stroag speech by A. Sbarboro. in which the re- moval of Chinatown from the heart of San Francisco was earvestly urged. Mr. Sbarboro’s remarks were punctuated at intervals by warm applause. Thanks to the President. | Numerous telegrams from Governors of | Pacific Coast States and other officials | were read by Secretary Mason. These | were from Governor T. T. Geer of Ore- gon, Governor J. R. Rogers of Washing- ton, Governor R. Sadler of Nevada, Gov- ernor Henry T. Gage vt California, Cor 1 gressman Julius Ka'n, now on his wa; to Washington, and Samuel Gomper president ™% the American Federation o Labor. Following the reading of a_tele- gram from Congressm-n J. C. Needhar, announcing that President Roosevel would_urge th> re-enactment of the Chi- nese Exclusion law in his message to Congress, the convention decided to send a telegram to the President, thanking him for his firm stand in the matter. An excellent speech was then delivered by Congressman Franx H. Coombs, mn which the subject of Chinese exclusion was carefully treated. His remarks wers greeted with applause. and when he con- cluded the convention took a recess of thirty minutes in order to enable the se- lection of a memorkl committee, one each from the various congressional dis- tricts. This work having been completed the convention adjourned to meet again at 10 o’clock this moin.ng. L e et pelled to -tolerate in its midst a forelzn com- munity, perpetuated in fiith, for the curiosity of tourists, the cupidity of lawyers and Lhe adoration of artists.’” Dr. Willlamson s .an authority on these mat- ters. He has devoted years and serious study to them. | The taxpayers of this city will soon be called | upon to vote millions of dollars for school hospitals and other improvements. Gentlemen, there is no betterment that this city can pro- cure which is more an urgent necessity than the removal of Chinatown to the southern end of San Francisco. We know the curse that the Chinese have brought among us, but unfortunately our fellow citizens residing east of the Rocky Mountains, not being inflicted with any large number of | Chinese immigrants, do not understand the | detriment that these Chinese laborers are to the | country in which they settle and therefore do | not sympathize with our cause. It is owing to this lack of knowiedge of the facts that we are in danger of losing the protection given to us by the Geary bill. 1 understand that many of our Eastern mer- chants labor under the false impression that by the renewal of the exclusion bill their trade with China will be materially decreased, or that its growth would be stunted. In answer | to this argument I have prepared a few sta- tistics which I trust will convince this busi- ness element of the East of its error. The Chinese Minister, Wu Ting Fang, In a recent adfiress made in’ Philadelphia, said: “‘Since the opening of my country to foreign | commerce fifty years ago China's trade with | the United States has been steadily increasing. | Go back no further than 1891 (one year before the date of the passage of the Geary bill), you will find that the volume of trade has increased rapidly every year. Gratifying as these figures are they wiil not stop here, but the commerce between America and China will continue to advance every year.”” From the monthly summary of commerce of | the United States in the Bureau of Statistics | of the Treasury Department, under date of | June, 1901, we learn that the principal exports | from' the United States to China are drills, | Jeans, sheetings, flour and kerosene; that two | of the largest imports into Hongkong are from | the United States, namely, flour, 100,000 tons, | which is an incréase of 41,000 fons over the previous year, and kerosene, G7.000 tons, which | as held its own since 1890 against the deter- mined attempts of Russia to capture the mar- ket with a cheaper and inferior article. We further learn from the same authorify that the imports from the United States to China in 1582 were $4.400.000. Afer 1352 there | was no marked increase until 1531 and 1892 and thereafter, following the passage of the Geary act. Ini the year 1897 the value of the tmports was | $9,700,000, and in 1839 $16,000,000. In 1999, not- withstanding the heavy falling off owing to the war, we exported $11,700,000 worth of goods, against ‘an average of one-half that amount previous to the passage of the Geary bill. Certainly this showing should refute any as- sertion that the re-enactment of the Geary bill would interfere with the commerce be- tween the United States and Chi Gentle- men, as a business man, I am free to state my belief that the merchant. be he from China or from any other part of the world, does not exist who will not purchase from the plople | of the country where he can obtain the best | article at the lowest price and who will not | sell to the people of the country which will | pay him the best price for his wares. Fur- thermore, we buy a great deal more from China than China buys from us, so that, even if such a_thing as sentiment in trade was pos- sible, the Chinese merchants would still remain our customers, as they have far the best of the bargain. 1 _sincerely hope that our Eastern brethren ‘will ree that they have nothing to lose by aid- ing us in the passage of this bill. By helping us with it they will not only advance their own | interests, but they will cement still more | strongly the bonds of friendship which now | exist bstween the people of the East and the | people residing on the border of the great Pa- cific. The State of California’ wants immigratio we need morz people. Here we can maintain 20,000,00¢_or 30,000,600 inhabitants, while we are barely 1.500,000 souls. But, gentlemen, we want people who will help to upbuild the States; no i coolies who are a detriment to every country they invade. We want our own countrymen from the East to come here among us and to enjoy the boun- tiful blessings which God has soread over this fair State. We want the Scotchman, who Is tull of enterprise and who is as strong in his business integrity as the giant rocks of his highlands. We want the Englishman, who brings with him capital, industry and enter- prise; the Irish, Who build and populate our Citlesy the Frenchman. with his vivacity and Tove of liberty and his keen knowledge to de- | pean ur viticultural industry; the Swisé free- TP Who are supreme in butter and cheess making: the industrious and thrifty Italians. Who cuitivate the fruit, olives and Vines—-who come with nuetry and music from the ¢lassic lard of Virgil, and who bring to us the best from their native soil; we want the Teutonic race, strong, patient and frugal, to develop the productions of our soil and the inexhausti- ble opportunities. We want the Danes, the Swedes, the Slavs and the Belgians; we want all good people from all parts of Europe. 1t is these immigrants and their children, with their diversified industries, Who have made this country in a remarkably short period of time the greatest and most prosper- ous on the face of the globe. To these, Mr. Chairman, we should never close our doors, for aithough when the Eure- jmmixrant lands at Castle Garden he @ay be uncouth and with little money, yet soon by his thrift and industry he improves his condition; he becomes a worthy citizen and the children'whd bless him mingle with the children of those who came befors him. and when the country calls they are always ready and willing to defend the flag, to follow the stars and stripes throughout the world. Can you recall any battles In which ths Chinese have raised their hands in defense of Old Glory? Can you point out examples of patriotic Mongols dying for the flag of eur country? Did they rally in the ranks of the patriots who lowered Spain's pride? No; they do not fight, except whem with hatchet and revolver they lay low the mem- bers of their tongs who offend them. Gentlemen, when our lamented President Mc- Kinley called for men to defend the flag of our country the California boys were the first to answer the call and to carry that flag to victory in the Philippine Islands. Our San Francisco mechanics sent the Olympia to de- stroy the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay and sent the Oregon to wige out of the ocean the grand armada of Spain at Santiago de Cuba. (applavse.) r. chuirman, members of this convention, the good Deople of the State of California at the election last year gave their enthusias- tic approval to the Republican administration by voting for the protection doctrine of our late beloved President McKinley. Now. in re- turn we most earnestly pray, nay, we demand, that the present administration and every Representative in Congress do protect Califor- nia and the Paciflc Coast from this threatened disaster of Chinese invasion. FLOQUENT ADDRESS OF CONGRESSMAN COOMBS Californians ‘Should Raise Their Voices in Appeal to Con- gress. Congressman Frank L. Coombs was in- troduced by Chairman Geary and when | the applause subsided he delivered the following address: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the: United Chinese Convention: I congratulate you upon assembling in _order that you might make manifest through your voices the sentiment of the people of the Pacific Coast, and I hope that it will re-echo the sentiment of the peo- ple of the United States upon the Chinese question. As I understand it, it i3 because we have thought that there might prevail in the East some idea or suspicion that the people of this country were not united as they were ten years ago that we have called this convention. And it is your office now, echoing the voice, the sentiment and the majesty of the people of this State, to send in clarion tomes to the capital of the nation your protest, as it was your protest of old. against the admission of Chinese further into the State of California and into the nation. I bhave read in the papers and heard here discussed to-day considerably the question of commerce. It has been set forth that a striction of Chinese immigration might ope- rate to the disadvantage of the great com-* merce for which the grand Pacific opens up a splendid and glorious future. Upon that sub- ject I desire to say that it seems to me, and it bas always seemed to me, that the ques- tion of bumam slavery, as evidenced by the Chinese in the past, does not tend to pro- mote nor does it tend to hold back commerce and its development. It is regulated by an en- tirely different proposition, by entirely differ- ent motives, by entirely different international communications and privileges. Yet above it all, my fellow-citizens, it is to be found Continued on Page Five. Our dollar shirts, be but little better But we do offer you advant: about the largest assortment in to have it if the shirt has ever been the next best thing $i. Most all dollar shirts are made u; same manner frouy the same quality of material—there Ispvem e 7 although we buy lmfly than some other dealer’s shirt for the same price. [0 & aux Goilar ahirta—you wilf fnd heve n Francisco—evs estgn popular color is re“menhd; no matter what your"tyu‘tc:’lz. we are good deal of satisfaction is buying what in some store wh: is limited. 44 We would like to show you our' n;:'o; :er‘::loon::f;:: t:r . Out-of-town orders fillsd—write us. SNWooD 5 (0 . 718 Market Strect. about little difference between them. the best of manufacturers, can and sure made in that pattern. There is a ou want, rather than 00 !