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CHINESE EXCLUSION AND CHINESE
, TRADE.
On December 8th the existing trade treaty with
China the "exclusion treaty" will expire. "When
that convention was mutually agreed to in 1S94 it
' was stipulated that its provisions should be bind
ing for a period of 10 years; and, furthermore,
that they should be extended for a seeond deeade
unless either government signatory to the treaty
should give notice, six months before the expiration
f the first period, of a desire to end the agreement
China has given such notice and asks for the ne
gotiation of a new treaty. One of the most vexatious
questions in the whole field of America's foreign re
lations must be reopened and Secretary Hay has on
his hands about as hard a task as any that he has
ever grappled with in the course of a long and bril
liant diplomatic career.
The Chinese government will demand, and
rightly, better treatment for its merchants coming
Here to trade. That the present treaty is grossly un
just to the Chinese no fair-minded person can deny.
But, aside from its injustice to the man from the
Celestial empire, it works to the detriment of Ameri
can trade. American manufacturers and merchants
eeking trade in the orient know this very well and
are in favor of less drastic treatment for the Chi
nese merchants coming to our shores. How can you
txpect a trader to buy in a market where he is not
permitted peaceably and decently to examine the
goods! It is notorious that many a high-grade Chi-.
nese merchant attempting to visit the United States
las been so harshly, even outrageously, treated by
our immigration officers as to discourage him and his
associates from all further thought of commerce with
There is a vast field in China for the sale of
eertain American products and manufactures
i field whose outer edges only have barely been
touched. But, if advantage is ever to be taken of
that field if the door ajar is to be opened wide
this government must meet China half way and ac
cord her a more liberal treatment. Any reasonable
demands by the Chinese government in this direc
tion should be granted at once. The great difficulty
will be to secure the necessary two-thirds vote in the
United States senate to ratify a more liberal treaty.
For there the sagacious labor unions will undoubted
ly concentrate all the strength that they can muster
in opposition to any alteration of the old treaty.
Immigration Commissioner Sargent, who is heart
ily in sympathy with "organized labor," and who is
himself an ex-labor leader, has already let it be
fcnown that he is "unalterably opposed" to any
abstantial change in that section of the expiring
eonvention relating to the admission to the United
States of Chinese merchants. He admits that wrong
h often done to intelligent, cultured, "genuine"
merchants coming here, but at the same time he in
siste that the present stringent regulations are neces
nary to prevent fraud and to keep out a horde of im-
posters and substitutes ever eager to circumvent the
law. .,
It should be possible to prevent such frauds with
kit barring the legitimate merchant class and con
stantly checking the advance of American business.
Even if a few low-class Chinese should find their
Way into this country, they would in no way consti
tute the competitive bugaboo feared with such ab
ject terror by the labor unions.
I It is to be hoped that the senate can be induced
to take an enlightened and broad-minded view of
this question and to sanction, without truckling to
the labor unions, a more liberal trade treaty with
China when the secretary of state shall have ens-
eded in drafting one that will be acceptable to the
Chinese government.
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: A MINQR CURRENCY REFORM. .
;' It is announced that the treasury department is
f nding it next to impossible to meet the demand for
ne and two-dollar circulating notes. The reason
is that the law requires that bills of these denomi
nations shall consist of silver certificates ; but, as the
ame law prohibits the use of such certificates ex
cept upon silver dollars that form part of the treas
ury's "general fund," and the amount of silver dol
lars in that fund is less han $y)00,000, the issue
f this class of notes has conie practically to a stand
itilL To add to the difficulty, the treasury's supply
f silver bullion, out of which" Ulver dollars have
hitherto been coined, has become exhausted, says the
Nov York Commercial.
It has been evident for some time that a " fam
ine" in one and two-dollar notes would sooner or
later occur. Of the outstanding paper money on
June HO, i;it:t, loss than $KI0,0tM,000 consisted of
five and ten-dollar bills composed chiefly of United
States and national bank notes and $.152,00O,(K0 of
twenty-dollar bills, made up mainly of national bank
notes and gold certificates. Over $150,000,000 of the
outstanding paper currency consisted of fifty and
one-hundred-dollar notes, and over $120,000,(XX of
five-hundred, one-thousand and nve-thousand-dolliir
notes.
It ought to bo possible, without serious inconven
ience to anybody, to convert a vast amount of larger
uotes into denominations that are more adapted to
hand-to-hand transactions.
United States Treasurer Robvrts' suggestion that
congress authorize the issuing of five and ten-dollar
gold certificates the lowest denomination of these
certificates is now twenty dollars would, if adopt
ed, greatly relieve the present situation. The amount
of gold certificates outstanding on June 30, 1903, was
$409,000,000, of which amount nearly $160,000,000
was composed of twenty-dollar notes. It is diffi
cult to see, however, why the present prohibition
against the issuing of national bank notes of
smaller denomination than five dollars should not
be modified. New national banks are springing into
existence almost daily, and a relaxation of the pro
hibition in question would alone soon do away with
the existing dearth in the smaller circulating notes,
in all probability.
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ATTENDANCE AT THE FAIR.
In the opinion of those who have visited the
great world "s fairs of recent years, the Louisiana
Purchase exposition is in many respects the greatest
ever held. In the matter of attendance, however.
it has fallen far below the Columbian exposition
of 1893. From April 30 to Octolier 30 the total at
tendance at the St. Louis fair was 13,993,295, while
from May to Octoler 30 the attendance at the Chi
cago fair was 27,539,521. This great difference in
the number of visitors may be due to a number of
causes, but the chief ones probably are the more
favorable climatic conditions at Chicago, the greater
advertising that fair received, the greater population
within a redius of 100 miles and the fact that expo
sitions were then a new thing to the Mississipip val
leyley and the great west, which naturally furnish
ed the great majority of visitors. The fact, also,
that the St. Louis fair was contemporaneous with a
presidential campaign may have had its influence,
especially in decreasing the attendance in Septem
ber and October, the months best for sightseeing andj
travelling.
Still it must be admitted that the frequency of
world's fairs has worn off the keen edge of public
curiosity and this is probably the greatest of tin
causes which have conduced to a lessened attendance,
That, notwithstanding all the facts that made against
it, the fair has repaid practically all of the big loan
made to it by the government is greatly to the credit
of the management. It is to be hoped the closing
days may largely increase the attendance, for it iv
not probable that such a wonderful exhibit of tin)
world's progress will soon again open its gates to
the public.
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No one can tell what happened on this continent
thousands of years before Eric the Red explored the
coasts of America which now bound New England.
The red man may have been an aborigine or a
usurper who can toll ? The only true American
there can be today is the man who is loyal to the
principles upon which the republic is founded. It
makes no difference where he was born or who his
ancestors. Are you not aware that the genealogical
research of modern times has nearly, if not quite,
proven that we can all trace our lineage back either
to royalty or the nobility. Anyway, , we all claim
God as our Father; and if there is any father of
higher rank will someone .please bring him out f
There in no such common stock among us as you
imagine? and all of this I-am-better-than-y6u-ness is
the shoddiest shod of life. ;True Americans need no
groove. . "
Trade reciprocity between the United States and
Canada got a big, impetus in the triumph of the
liberal party, in the Dominion last week, and it got
another in the election of William L. Douglas, a
democrat, as governor of Massachusetts. There is a
suspicion that it has got another "boost" from Presi
dent Roosevelt's statement that he will not be a can
didate for another term a statement that leaves him
free to act as the, best interests of the entire people
of this country dictate,
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543-545 Bond St.
lnwii, tno. bi t lor built. In ninny re-dpei-ln,
thun 1 i m p hnl lire of venrra
tile ago. The population l typical of
the country, All i-U hmJ romtltlniiN
f nwn and women have t'n Ht
traded to Fairbanks by the 'lure o
gold.' but df.plte the t-omnopolltan
population Full bunk l a luw-ublil-Ing
rump."
llM'UMltig Vald ond liUMlueM
conilltloim there, Mr. M-I'lee mild:
"Vnld. too. hu n future Iwfore II
thnt In going to make It one of the
mini proeperoun town In Alimkii.
Travel to the Tunana In via Vuldea.
and next eprlng In going to wltneim a
large Influg of people to the new camp.
Influx or exodu. however. Valdea will
receive the people, and for that reneon
it la liound to prosper."
CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT.
R.op.n.d Und.r New Management.
John Hlnxli h hua leased the Califor
nia Restaurant and Oyster House and
la now prepared to eerv the public.
The best oysters and meals In the
city. Family trad supplied. Good
cooka, polite waller and prompt service.
Have the 1m Imperial bund and get
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TAANA'S PR08PECT8 BRIGHT.
President Roosevelt has two gigantic projects to
execute during his four years as president the
achievement of an international peace agreement and
the completion of the Panama canal. Both are fairly
started to successful completion.
But for the race question at the south, it looks as
if the thing would have come pretty close to being
unanimous.
The climate is changing in Missouri.
Thr.e Creeks Which Justify All That
Has Been Claimed for Locality.
Tacoma Ledger Glowing reports of
the Tanana country are brought from
Fairbanks by W. H. McPhee, a guest
at the Donnelly. Mr. McPhee Is pro
prietor of the Ocean dock at Valdes,
Is a pioneer of the Alaska camps, and
has Just completed his nineteenth
summer up north. ' He Is well known
In Tacoma, and Invariably makes his
headquarter here when he cornea out.
HI home I In California, and he will
leave for the south In a few day.
"When a man ask what I think of
the: ?anana, I always tell him that I
consider It ona-of th greatest camps
In Alaska, and I add that 1 am going
back nex( March. Mjr confidence V In
the new diggings I such a to take me
there again, and I don't think' a man
could bnck his judgment by anything
more, convincing than a return to the
new gold camp.
"I do- j not speak from hearsay,
either, when I discuss the future of the
Tanana. I have been there, and I
have seen with my own eyes the things
that make me believe It Is a camp of
vast ' hidden wealth. There are three
creek In operation todoy, the Cleary,
Pedro and Fairbanks, that Justify all
that Is claimed for the country, and
those three creeks ar a few among
hundred of creek that are Just a
valuable,
'The Tanana country ha attracted
hundred of miner and other people,
and it I really one ot the wonderful
district in Alaska. The town of
Fairbanks Is a study tn Itself. It is a
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