The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 23, 1901, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1901 WHOLE STATE FIRM FOR EXCLUSION * ErPHASI1ZED \l—g/ RETIARK. 1TH A FTENT RIGHT fwxfifijfi CONGRE ooD W1 JSHED T A OF o RrRD To Hy Daz=z1L e > SPEE.CH rTAN A CoUPLE RAZHLE - Pl Closing Scenes| Are Marked by | Fervor. =3 — Continued From Pagé One. trade and business voices in most of sentiment all our State, ass of our citizens concerning ssity for the re-enactment of exclude in the future, even n itse! terms the ar u throughout ity the absolute n @we which shall more effectively than they have excluded in the past, Chinese and other Asiatic people from | cur State and nation. 1 need not explatiate upon the evils of | Astatic immigration to our shores. All who | have eyes may see the blighted corrupting in- | fluence which the Orientals have had on our husiness interests and our commerce; how th have degraded our labor—for American labor can mever compete ip the same market with Asiatic labor and maintain for one mpment its >w the presence of d self respect; and practic Qignity Orientals in our cl graded habits a: a State, with de has poisoned the pure springs of morality and religion, and cor- rupted by its evil influence all our social lifc. All these subjects be dwelt upon by carnest, the ful speakers, and £ the work of this convention, & reso- will to be cur be which easure passed and w delegates in Congress concerning the form of legislation demanded by the Pacific Coast for the protecty ure. the United States District At one sense of the word, ne practical workings of ny other depart- Gentlemen, ney's office has had, ae nuch to do Chinese exclus: of the Gover e first act of every crack probed by ¢ the Chinese re so the ; every link i been tested an: guerded us n the utmost In link ‘would break; every point, known to the law has been raised in behalf of the Chinese by the best legal tal of California. 1o distort the plain intentior f Ce some means by which ex- of Congress and find means by which ex. clusion might be evaded 3 3 States District Attorney’s office, in all the years since 1552 the duty has devolved of guar: ing in the United States courts the legel rights of Americans The experience of that office, after its tw years of continual warfare against the pers ent efforts of the Asiatics to enter despite the exclusion laws, must be worth something to this | eonvention. At this time it is unnecessary to attempt to | ®xplain the porvisions of the iaws passed by Congress for the exclusion of, the Chinese. Commencing with that of May 6, 1582, each law passed @s time went on—that is, the law of | July &, 1554, of September 13, 1885, the supple- | ment to the law of May 6, 1852, passed October 1, 1885, the so-called Geary act of May 5, 1862, | @nd the act of November 3, 153—was drawn more strictly more in conformity with gtrict_exclusion principles than the one which preceded it. The Geary act, or the law of May Bi5%2, continued n force ‘and effect all laws | excluding Chinese upon the statute books at that time, and in addition the principal provi- | sion of the Geary law required the registration of gll Chinese in the country, whereby they might be identified as those who had a right to be and remain in America under the former laws | The Geary act continued in force the exclu- | #lon laws for ten years after its passage, 80 | that by the terms of this act all Chinese ex- | clusion laws will expire on May 3 So the | guestion before us to-day is not what the old Jaw was: what its merits or demerits were, its strength or its weakness, but what the new law shall be. The purpose of this convention-is to | consifler how & wew exclusion law ‘may be | Tramed 8o a8 10 avoll the weakness and defects | of the old laws, and place upon the statute books of the nation an absolute barrier against | Chinese and cther Asiatic jmmigration. { Fortunately California is biessed at this with nine able, honest and earnest Congress- men and Senators, and one of whom is perfect. | iy capable of framing @ bill which will meet | &l requirements of our necessities, but still it | will be a source of strength and power to-them | o know that the whole State is behind them | and with them—giving them encouragement in | the battle whose -brunt will fall upon them when they meet in Washington the coming | winter. | It i the opinion of the United States District | Attorney’s office that the provisions of the | Geary law should be substantiaily re-enacted in | | the new measure. Of course ten years of the operation of the Geary law have demonstrated that improvements must be made; ten years of effort on the part of the Chinese to break through thet law have shown that there are places in it that must be strengahened, and | loopholes that must be closed, in order that a perfect exclusion law shall be placed on the books of the nation. For instance, it is suggested that the Bureau of Immigration of the Treasury Department should be made the original judge of the eligi- bility of Chinese persons and persons of Chi- mese descent to enter the United States, and that such bureau be authorized 1o make all nec- essary regulations to enforce the administration of_such lews. This, of course, would mot affect the rights of Chinese persons or persons of Chinese de- | scent, claiming to have been born within the | United States. i An appeal from the decision of the immi- | gration or customs officer should be permitted | %o the Secretary of the Trearury. The decision | of the immigration’ or customs officer showd | be final, unless reversed by appeal to the Secretary of the Treasury. { If this provision should become. a part of the new law, its terms should be especially clecr and strong and unambiguous, for a great question is now before the Federal courts of this city for & decieion. It is the question of the rights of Chinese in transit through the | country, Of late Chinese have been coming in numbers, en route to Mexico. Of course nder the laws as they are, the transporta- jon companies are required to take precau- me to carry the Chinese persons en route gafely through. anfl guard against their escape fle in the United States, but once over the exican line all responsibility on the part the transportation company ceases, and the inaman at once leaves the train on Mexi- ean sofl, learns a little of our language and eustoms, and some dark night, aided by white Snen Who are in the business of assisting Chi- pese to evade exclusion, he quietly slips across the borders and become & good American Chinaman. The %collectors of the ports of entry should heve the power of ruling whether the Chinese in transit are bona fide travelers em route, or whether they are merely entering the United States to cross to the nearest point In foreign | terested | proceeed ortginaily - DUTY OF EV from speech by Mayor Snyder of REGARD it as the sacred daty of every American citizen to discharge faithfully his political obligations to his country, a country every foot of whose soil has been consecrated to the cause of liberty by the precious blood of a heroic people. It is the duty of every American to see to it that the duplicity of Ori- ental corrupilonll(’l shall not deflle public sentiment and that the American people do not consent to legislation by the National Congress that will permit the contamination of our soil by an influx of hordes of the lowest type of humanity. our duty as American citizens to fearlessly face this great prob- lem and to stamp out once and for all time this threatened dan- ger of unrestricted Chinese immigration. to contribute to the preservation and elevation of a clear Ameri- can sentiment that will bring the blush of shame to the faces of all who advocate the opening of our doors to a flood of creatures who believe in no government unless it be despotism.—Excerpt ERY CITIZEN. I say that it is ‘We are assembled here Los Angeles. *- territory, there to leave the railroad or ves- sel_and return. The point is this: If the Collector has rea- son to suspect that the real purpose of the Chinaman is to uitimately work his way into the United States, he should be empowered to refuse the landing in the first instance, and his ruling should be final, unless the best of evidence be given to show the contrary. Of course in this class of cases an appeal should be given to the Secretary of the Treasury, but pending the appeal the Chinaman should be held without bonds. This is an important phase of the Chinese problem. Mexico is becoming more quiet ong the border; the turbulent Indian tribes are being well controlled by both American and Mexican Governments, and it is now safe for the Chinese to use that route and method in reaching their desired goal, while it was dangerous and difficult but just a few years ago. It is renorted on good authorlty that a com- pany of Chinese mérchants and Americans in- in the importation of Chinese has been formed in San Francisco for the purpose of establishing and buflding up a colony of one million Chinese on the border of Mexico. The principal business of that colony will be to work its members over the American bor- er. Again: United States Commissioners should be vested with plenary jurisdiction to deter- mine the status of Chinese persons or per- sons of Chinese descent within the United Etates, or of having failed to register while in the United States, as required by law. The laws on this subject are, if not open to question, at least debatable. There ‘are at least four or five enactments which vest United States Commissioners with | jurisdiction to ordef the deportation of Chi- Dese persons and persons of Chinese descbnt found to be unlawfully within the United States. There is considerable question whether sec- tion 13 of the act of September 13, 1BS5, ever became a law, and it is under that section that United States Commissioners as a rule ‘with reference to depor- tation proceedin and that an appeal by the Chinese persons is allowed to the United States District Court. Certain verblage used in section 6 of the act of May 5, 1832, as amended by the act of No- vember & 1893, would afford some ground for the argument that the status of Chinese per- sons charged with being unlawfully within the United States, by reason of their fallure to register. should be tried originally and ex- clusively by a Unjted States Judge, meaning thereby a Jjudg® of a United States court. The tendency of the courts has been to give the United States Commissioner full and ple- nary jurisdiction of all cases relating to the unlawful status of Chinese persons and persons of Chinese descent, irrespective of Whether that unlawful status was brought about by an orig- inal and unlawful entry into the United States or the original entry being unlawful was after- ward rendered unlawful by failure to register, | as_required by law. Therefore there should be in the new Chinese exclusion law a particular enactment giving United States commissioners full and unques- tioned jurisdiction in determining the status of all Chinese persons and persons of Chinese descent within the United States. Furthermore, a very necessary amendment to the law would be that grahting an appeal by the United States. As the.law stands at pres. ent the Chinese person only is allowed an ap- peal. The United States has no remedy by appeal, The new law should further provide that with reference to habeas corpus proceedings no bail should be allowed. This is a very salutary proviston. of habeas corpus, ctherwise, as it has occurred in the past, the Chinese will sue out writs of habeas corpus and obtain proiracted delays; meanwhile earn- ing a livelihood in the country. It is also suggested that a nmew registration of all Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent within the United States should be srovided for. Since the last registration law of May 5, 1822, as amended by that of November 3, 1898, under which the perlod of registration expired on May 4. 189, now nearly seven vears ago, a great many Chinese have, by eluding the vig- ilance of officers, fraudulently and unlawfully entered the confines of the United States and are now within the country as laborers. And again. The penal laws relating to the enforcement of the Chinese exclusién and re- striction acts should be somewhat reformed and rendered more effective. For instance it i made an offense to aid and sbet the landing of Chinese. The courts have held, under the peculiar phraseology of the present law, that unless the landing of a Chinaman be successful the offense is not con- summated. The law should be smended S0 that an attempt to aid or abet the landing of Chinese persons, whether successful or not, should be made ‘an offens The laws With reference to the taking of oaths and authorizing customs officers and others to administer caths should be improved upon #0 that prosecutions for perjury might be ad. Some suggestion has also been made that a Chinese laborer should be permitted to bring over his wife. This is an exceedingly em- barrassing question, for the reason that ft would be made the means of a ereat dea! of fraud; that is, under the guise of bringing women over as wives many women would be brought aver immoral purposes, The statute Mirected toward the deportation. of Thinese persons and persons of Chinese It tends to expedite the action of, | persons suing out writs — descent (not citlzens of the United States) Who have been convicted of crimes, should be =0 amended as to include those Who are here- after convicted of a fclony, as well as those who have been previously convicted thereof. As the law at present stands only those who | are convicted of a felony by the act of May 5, 1892, could be deported. . In habeas corpus proceédings, where the Chi- Dese persons claim to have been born in the United States, the widest discretion should be given the Judge or Commissioner in his rul- ings on the credibility of witnesses and the admission of the evdence. To illutrate this: Take the proceedings in the Commissjoner's Court almost any morning. A Chinaman is before the Commissioner on a Writ of habeas corpus: his attorney cialms that he was born in the United States; the | Chinaman does not claim it; he doesn’t know enough about our lanzuage or customs io claim anything: but, nevertheless, there are & number of Chinesé who can be found who Will testify that they knew the applicant’s father and mother twenty or twenty-five years ago; that applicant waé born at 710 Dupont street, on the third floor, in room No. 13; that when the boy was 2 years old he was taken to China by his mother to be educated; that he has ltved in China ever since that time; that now his mother is dead and his father i dead and he wants to come back to his native America to take care of the business of his old uncle or cousin—and the uncle or cousin is there to swear to it. So common is this story, so well is it learned, and so carefully is it presented in evidence in the courts, that one of the Federal Judges es- timated that if the story were true every Chl- nese woman who was in the United States twenty-five years ago must have had at least 500 children. Therefore the new law should give the United States Commissioners the widest range in ad- mitting Chinese testimony. The newspapers ¢t this clty have paid a great deal of attentlon to the question of slavery, and the public have come to know through the efforts of the press that here in this free land, In the city of San Francisco, under the very shadow of the flag | that is the hope, the inspiration and the glory of all who love liberty and rejoice in freedom, human chattels are bought and sold, bartered and exchanged—yes, in the very market place. And there is no Federal law on the statute books to reach and remedy this evil; and so the new Chinese exclusion law must be framed to wipe out the last vestige of slavery on Ameri- can soil. To learn this may astonish many, but it is a fact nevertheless. At present there is no law relating to the question of slavery, unless it relates to negroes, mulattoes or forelgne: therefore, with reference to Chinese slave gir} who claim to have been born in the United Btates, there is no penal statute by which thelr owners can be prosecuted. All that can be ddne in attempting to break up the invol- untary servitude of Chinese girls held for im- moral purposes Is to arrest the unfortunates on the charge that they are unlawfully in the United States and deport them should they fail to establish their right to be here; but If they establish their American nativity there is no Federal statute which will compel their owner to release them. This phase of the Chi- nese problem requires the careful attention of our lawmakers when they are considering the new exclusion act. In conclusion I wish to say again that we can justly feel every confidence in the states. manship and honesty and ability of our Cor gressional delegation. They will frame the new exclusion law and frame it, I _am sure, as wisely as human wisdom can. But this cor vention can voice the heartfeit prayer of all California trat the East may join with (} West and in the coming session of Congre aid us in passing a just and wise measure that shall guard and protect from the bligh ing curse of Aslatic immigration America’s labor and industry, her commerce, her trade, her homes, her children and her tuture, EFFECT OF IMMIGRATION TUPON THE PUBLIC MORALS Rev. William Reder Entertainingly Discusses the Absorbing Chinese Problem. Rev. William Rader, pastor of the Thira Congregational Churck, was the next epeaker. He dwelt uron the effects of Chinese immigration on public morals. The address was witty and forceful. It follows: . 2 It may appear to our fellow citizens In the East that the people of Callfornla are violat ing their sacred faith in the brotherhood of | man by resisting the immigration of Chinese. Standing as the nation has so many years for the brotherhood of man, inviting the allen races of the earth to seck shelter and refuge under our flag, it may be asked if we in the West are turning the hands back on the face of our national policy and repudiat- ing the Burlinghame treaty of 1868, confessing that we arc not equal to the task of chris- Uanfring the races of the world. e are not opposing immigration because we do mot like the Chinese. Indeed, many of us e e e e i e T ) Stops the Cough Apd works off the cold. Laxative Bromo uinine Tablets cure a cold in ome o N e Ty P s, A ¥ D legates Aim to Continue War- fare. 5 S - have become attached to this picturesque Ori- ental on our streets and in our Kitchens, who, like Tennyson's Maud, is ‘‘iclly regular, splen- didly nuli”’ It is not a question of 8- ion.” Our country is free to faith, provided faith be true to freedom and republican insti- tutions. Neither is it a question of human rights. Immigration is not a right, but a privilege. The enjoyment of American liberty is not a right, but a privilege, conditioned by the capacity to exercise such a prerogative. It 1s quite within the power of the state to regu- iate such national privileges. This has been the policy of European.governments for hun- dreds of vears. It is the prerogative and pol- icy of the United States, to be exercised not only in accordance with International good will, but in defense of national well being, in protection of commerce, the workingmen and national morality. This, then, Is a question of method, as’ to how the industrial and social integrity of the republic may be served and maintained. This great convention meets in the name of Ameri- can patriotism, and note with one word of race prejudice. The issue is that of Amerjcan civilization es against the venerable paganism of China, with the hope that the one may be protected, that the other; in the progress of iight and liberty may ultimately be destroyed and become civilized. v Three main arguments are used to support Chinese exciusion. The arguments of indus- try, of political economy and of morality. I have been asked to speak upon the last. Through our gates have come the down-trod- den, the Italian, and the Swede, the German and the Dane and all nationalities. We have bled and died for the blacks, Here in San Francisco we are not by any means morally perfect. We have troubles of our own. White vice is as evil as yellow vice, and it is because of this that we see danger in unlimited immi- gration. Humiliating as it may seem Chris- tlan _America is not equal to Pagan China. San ‘Francisco is not equal to Chinese immor- ality. Is Boston or New York or Chicago equal to the task of assimilating Chinese populations with American standards? Says a Chinese pro- verb, *“The light of heaven cannot shine into an inverted bowl.”” The Chinese in the United States are an inverted bowl. Henry Ward Beecher sald, ‘“When the lion eats the ox, the ox becomes the lion; not the lion, ox.”- It has been well said in reply that if there be to¢ much ox, or it he be poisoned, ye have a dead lion as & result. China is the ox. America is the lion. As well might a mouse try to digest an elephant as America to digest China. There s too much China-a China of many centuries, of four hundred millions, of fixed traditions and vices. You cannot empty the Pacific into a cup. This is what advocates of, unlimited im- migration would try to do.. What are the facts? 2 The present number of Chinese in the United States may approximately be put down at 100,000. Of these 18,000 are In San Francisco, 54,000 on the Pacific Coast outside of San Fran- and 28,000 in other . States and Terri- tories. It is estimated that the whole rum- ber of Chinese professing the Christian faith is about 1600. It is claimed that more than 2000 attend evening schools, that the number in missions and public schools equal 500 and that $60,000 has been glven by the Chinese for the building of chapels and for Christian work. I may venture the opinion, however, that in the face of these figures it is the opinion of Christian workers among the Chinese that the proper place to civilize the race is not here, but in their own country. _ We have falled to christlanize- the Chinese population of Californfa. From a moral point of view the Chinaman has not been a success in the United States, which is to say, he has not assimilated with American institutions and ideals. He has planted orchards, bullt raflroads, washed linen and prepared dinners for $30 or $40 a month, but has signally failed to become a moral American force. His nega- tive virtues have never become- positive In- fluences, This is true largely because he is the im- migrant without a home. He is a man with= out a fireside. Other immigrants have brought hither their wives and children, for whom thev have sacrificed. The cabin and the school, . the church and the library followed, and some of the best blood in America flows in_their velns. They have become pillars of the republic, but the Chinese are a homeless people. Con sequently they have imperilled thelr environe ment, and the influence of their lives has not been good. The Scotch have given us com- sclence, the Itallan artistic taste, the French- man wit, the English plety, the Scandinaviax industry, but the Chinese have made no perma- pent gifts to American life. FHe has cons tributed nothing to the moral or soctal fibre of the republic. He has left no art, no scl- ence, not even his fortune or his bones. Hn has taken millions from our gold fields. He has not left anywhere a permanent dollar. No man i3 a moral force in the United Statew Wwho takes away his money and his skull. A few years ago the Board of Supervisors of this city made an investigation, when it was shown that 30,000 Chinese lived within a space comprised in elght blocks: Fifty-seven women and fifty-nine children living as fami- li38; 761 women and 576 children herded to- gcther with apparent indiscriminate parcntal relatives and no family classification so far as could be ascertained: 576 prostitutes and elghty-seven children, professional prostitutes and children living together. There were 103 houses of prostitution, 150 iron-clad barred and barricaded gambling dens, twenty-six opium joints existing in de- flance of municipal laws and of police authori- ty. In habitations sufficlent for 250 persons ;l:l t-l:carmnyttce found 823 actual sleeping ocecu- . .Tyhe conditions are practically the same to- Shinatown furnishes the best argument a. nese im: tion from the -y, migra the moral Its odors and filth, its prostitution and ery, its opium joinis and gambling den: unsanitary conditions and atmosphere of secret sin—these convince the nostril, influence the eye and turn the stomach! We have cleansed Havana with broom and spade and flame, but every large city in the country has an annex of Chinese degeneracy Which needs, doubtless, Bibles and schools, but first of all ‘sanitation’ and cleanliness, which in the laws of health precedes godliness itself. Chinatown in San Francisco I8 a museum of orlental vice, kept oven for the benefit of East- ern tourlsts_and other people. It is & city of glavery, worse than the slave pen in New Or- leans which gave young Lincoln the inspiration to lift the thunderbolt of the Northern con- science. A second Harriet Beecher Stowe might write another ““Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and draw the picture of an orlental Eliza bound by fetters. There she stands looking through the iron bars of Chinatown! ; Crime Js bred in Chinatown. Hightinders execute their own laws of vengeance; murders e immigration from the moral standpoint. Its odors and filth, its prostitution and slavery, its opium joinis and gambling dens, its w stomach. and other people. vention. — are frequently committed. In thirty years 184 Ehiness felons have served time. During the last six months 1140 arrests were made It Chinatewn. It breeds. murder, ime, licen- tiousness, slavery. Destroy it. Let the plow run through the filthy streets. Plant corn where vice grows. Let fountains splash where the opium fumes fill the air. Open it as a playground for the children. Remove the standing menace to health and happiness and air thé most pow- erful argument against unrestricted Chinese immizration. Chinese immigration feeds the already active wickedness of our country through at least four well-known vices. They are prostiution, gambling, oplum smoking and murder. . In conclusion, what shall we do about it? We are here to memorialize Congress. Shall we ask for a closed door of ‘Chinese exclusion or_for a modified restriction measure? ‘We are united here in the West in believing some sort of exclusion is imperative, and the people of California are not in the temoer to take ary chances. We cannot open the dam of Mongolian invasion. ‘We stand for American labor, which must be rrotected. We cannot offer up American labor on the altar of international commerce, which is not threatened in any event. Lal must be protected and the moral life of the ublic be defcnded. Some form of exclusion s_a national, a moral, an economic necessity. We must recognize and acknowledge the friendly relations of the two countrles and make a recommendation in accordance with international treaty procedure in terms humil- jating neither to China nor injurious to America. Since the Geary bill was passed a new posi- tlon among the powers has been taken by our nation. ~We hdve been fighting battles for humanity. Let us act in accordance with the spirit of these wars and -in harmony with the spirit which actuated them. The world is watching us. Let us act with deliberution—not as partisans, but as broad- minded patriots. The class of coolies which make up the rank and file of the California population who come without wives or wealth. who intertere with American workingmen on the one hand and affect public morals on the other, should have the door of the nation closed tight against them and locked with a Geary 0y. If there is any doubt as to the working of a law with a qualification, let us give the pres- ent exclusion law the benefit of the doubt. That the men of brains and culture in China, the statesmanship recognized by General Grant in LI Hung Chang, whom he considered on> of the three greatest statesmen of the world, that the men who have adopted Eurovean or American ideas and who are the moral lead- ers of thelr race—students, teachers, merchants —that these should be recognized and respected by our declaration to Congress and by the law Congress mn{ enact is to say the least con- sistent with the higher spirit of the American people and just to the higher life of China. CONGRESSMAN WOODS IN SYMPATHY WITH MOVEMENT He Assures Convention That the Call- fornia Delegation Will Make a Strong Fight. Congressman S. D. Woods made a forceful address, which put his audience in very good humor. He sald: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conven- tion—I have not come before you for the pur- pose of making a speech. I came to this con- vention 2s a delegate. I came for the purpose of absorbing some of your spirit, so that if in Cangress the fight became serious and I became ‘weary I might be inspired by the memory of the thought and hope and action of this great convention. (Applause.) I am & product of Cali- fornia. (A voice, “‘And a good one, too.”) Over fifty years ago my mother, carrying me in her arms, landed at the corner of Jack- son and Montgomery streets from a boat, and 1 have seen this city and this Staté grow from my early childhood. I have for California a great love, and that great love makes me loyal to her )In this, the hour of her exigency. (Ap- lause. R pThere is work for this convention to do. We have a fight in Congress. I have been to Con- gress and was there two months and, knowing L e e T ) Piles Cured Without the ‘Knife, Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles, No Cure, No Pay. All druggists are author- ized by the manufacturers of Pazo Ointment to refund money where it fails to cure any case of piles, no matter of how long standing. Cures ordinary cases in six days: the ' woret cases in fourteen daya Ome application gives ¢ase and rest. Relleves ftching instanily. Shis is a new discovery, and is the only pile rem. £ay solq on a posltive suarantee, no’ cure no pay. A free sample will be sent by mall to %y‘l sending their name and address. . Soe. It rd Jour druggiat don't ke e e e P a L. B ARls MupreiNg GO st fauactied by also manufacture the Lazative Bromo-Quinine Tablets - 00 Sure, anitary conditions and atmosphere of secret sin——these convince the mostril, influence the eye and turn the We have cleansed Havana with broom and spade but every large city in the country has an annex of Chinese de- generacy which needs, doubtless, Bibles and schools, but first of -Ii sanitation and cleanliness, which in the lnws of health precede godlines ; itself. Chinatown in San Francisco is a mu eum of Oriental vices, kept open for the benefit of Eastern tourists— It is a city of slavery, worse than the slave pen in New Orleans which gave young Lincoln to lift the thunderbolt of the Northern conscience. riet Beecher Stowe might write another “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and draw the pieture of an Oriental Eliza bound by fetters. There she stands, looking: through the iron bars of Chinatownl—Excerpt from speech by Rev. William Rader at Chinese Exclusion Con- CHARACTERISTIC POSES OF SOME OF THE SPEAKERS WHO ENTERTAINED THE CHINESE EXCLUSION CONVENTION YESTERDAY. - | CHINATOWN AS A MUSEUr. CB!NA’I‘OWN furnishes the best argument against Chinese nd flame, the inspiration A second Har- Ll that during the next session this question would come up for solution, I tested the temper of the Congressmen to find out whether or not it was necessary when I returned to Congress again to be prepared for a conflict, and I found that I had to be ready for a fight with my col- leagues upon this question. We have expanded as a nation. There has been a difference of opinion on the question of expansioa, but these differences of opinion have been settled by the manifest destiny of the American nation, and she expands, un- der God, whether you want it or not. (Ap- plause.) ' Expanded” as she is in obedience to the divine decree, are we now to mutilate this expansion by allowing the doors of the Wwestern portion of the continent to be opened 10 400,000,000 of Chinese who bring to America nothing but degradation and despair? (Cries of ‘No, no!‘) You say no. That is our opin- jon. And I say that this convention ought to have been a convention of the Pacific Coast and there should be yet carried on along the | line of the Pacific in every Territory and State west of the Rocky Mountains this work, until, When we stand in Congress, the entire delega- tion from the Pacific Slope will stand as a unit, and behind us will stand as a unit the common ntiment of the entire Pacific Coast, repre- sented in great conventions in every State. (Applause.) You must work, and every news- raper on the Pacific Slope should from this ti ie for:m, under (he inspiratin cf your re- wuest Lo cuew., Woia, through their columns, to show the kast that there is no dissemsion and that there is no dissipation of hope upon the Pacific Slope upon this great question. ‘We know in America that the common man is the hope of the republic. We know that the rich may leave us if they desire, but we know that this country can never stand if the com- | mon man—of whom, thank God, I am one—is degraded in America. (Applause.) Keep this | convention alive from this time until the bat- tle is won. Appoint a permanent executive committee. Keep your chalrman in his place | ready to call this convention together at any time. (Applause.) And if we find that the commerciaiism of the East, represented by such men as Morgan, is against us and we | need help, that we can ask you, with the cry from Macedonia, to come over and help us, let him call this convention together again_and | tay in session untll we can say to the Bast, “There is a great convention of American citizens in session in California «nd they will | stay in session until this battle is won.”” (Great applause.) It you think that this delegation is going back to Washington to meet a Waterloo you | do not know the delegation. (Remewed ap- | plause.) Why, every mother and every daugh- ter of California is involved in this battle. And do you think that such men as we are, knowing that this conflict is for the mothers and the daughters.and the children of Cali- fornia, will ever give up this battie? (Cries of “No, no,” and great applause.) I say to you men 1 know what honorable impuises have brought you here. (Cheers for Congressman Woods.) "And if there is any man who has come to this convention with anything In his heart but a love for California let him away back and sit down. (Laughter and ap- plause.) I will tell you how I feel about this, It I knew that my resignation would bring about the passage of this bill as recommended by my young friend, Mr. McKinlay, here this morning, I Would write the telegram on this desk and send it to the Governor this minute to make California free from this possible curse. And that is how I love her. (Cries of ““Good"” and cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I said I did not come here to make a speech. (Laughter and cries of “Go on.””) Thi; no speech. (Laughter and cries of “Oh, no.”") It is a talk out o!xl man’s h eart, believing what he is saying. You keep splendid enthustasm ‘behind us men . i’ Con gress and all hell couldn’t beat us. (Laughter and great applause.) That is the way & Dove. Fhat ia the kind of Spiric that the ¥ at Manila when Georga Dewe: the ‘whole Spanish flest. That ie Dielt o 18t makce the o fag th s to make the American on the world. (Cheers.) oAy g flag of colleagues have a splendid majority In Congress, careful of that majority.” And T s Loils to tell them when I go back, and I don’ what the Republican party thinks of am going to say now. find that we will be made footballs next election by the American peaple and God we will de it. (Great appiause.) 1 Will tell them, “By God you ought to be made footballs of. (Renewed laughter and ap- I will say plause.) to you now n—this & wild talk, but it is not :umt::::?--brun& because I feel what I say, and I mean ha say, and you will find it - 3 have been seriously at wo:‘!lt' l‘n hes 3 for the last month. I every Sheriff in - fornia, and I have accumulated a I ¢ would chill you; s Wy Words of Cheer to Friends of Toil. <+ - cause these officers of the law have told me that these people who have aiready come to our shores are polsoning our civillzation at the very cradle almost. And that Is why it will chill you first and when the chill is over you will Bave the hot fires of indignation, as hot as hell to burn these destrovers of our cradles and to blast them forever from the land. I will hand these evidences—I won't give them to you—I will keep them for the commit- tee to read. and then if the committee want to find out whether these statements are true or not they can refer to the officers of thig con- vention for confirmation. And that is Why { want you to keep this comvention alive, to bolster us ud in our facts. Now I say go home as members of this con- vention and keep it alive, with the executive committee acting enthusiastically and hope- fully; go home to your papers and set them alive, and if necessary let the people of .the East, the commercial man and the devent woman in the East, who want to convert the world, understand that at present and until the passage of the exclusion act by Congress the Californians and the Pacific Coast. man, woman and child, knows nothing in the world but the absolute necessity of passing the Geary exclusion act, with all these splendid amend- ments that have been suggested. (Great ap- plause.) TEOPLE OF CALIFORNTA UNITED IN THE WORK Mayor Snyder of Los Angeles Prom- ises Support of the Southern Residents. Mayor Snyder of Los Angeles was the next speaker to address the convention. He was given close atiention throughout. He said: Mr. Chalrman and Members of this Conven- tion: This is the most impressive body I have ever had the pleasure of addressing. It is tm- pressive in that here are the representative cit- izens from all parts of the great State of Cali- fornia. You have left your homes, you have left your families, you have left your business, and at your own expense you have come hers, and all ‘are of one mind. This convention ls peculiar in that here we find Democrats and Republicans, we find the capitalist and the la- borer, we find the representative of the pulpit. | we find that all walks of life are represented here; and we are all of one mind, in favor of Chinese exclusion, for country, home and civili- zation. (Applause.) I regard it as the sacred duty of every Amer- ican citizen to_discharge faithfully his political obligations to his country, a country every foot of whose soil has been consecrated to the cause of liberty by the precious blood of a herolc peo- ple. It Is the duty of every American to see to it that the duplicity of Orfental éorruption- ists shall not defile public sentiment, and that the American pecple do not consent to legisia tion by the national Congress that will it the contamination of our soil by an influx of hordes of the lowest type of humanity. 1 say that it is our duty as American citizens to fear- lessly face this great problem and to stamp out once and for all time this threatened danger of unrestricted Chinese immigration. _(Applause.) We are assembled here to contribute to the preservation and elevation of a clear American Sentiment that will bring the blush of shame to the faces of all who advocate the opening of our doors to a flood of creatures who believe in no government unless it be a despotism, who have no obligations to the Government under which they live other thaa that inspired by fear. 1 shall speak plainly. The Chinese is a pagan, devoted to the worship of idols, despising Chris- tianity and hating our civilized institutions, disregazding our soclal system, sneering at our patriotim and doing his utmost to demoralize our people. Against him our gates should for- ever be kept closed. (Applause.) I am one of those who think that the ability of our peopls to assimilate ailen races is about exhausted, and that the invitation to the people of every clime to join with us aud to participate i this great Government of and for and by the people should be withdrawn. We are in a position to say that only the best menm of foreign lands shall be allowed to enter and become Ameri- can citizens. And we must fay in thunderous Continued on Page Three. ADVERTISEMENTS. Dragged:.Dowfi Feeling In the loins. Nervousness, unrefreshing sleep, despon= dency. It is time you were doing something. 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