The deportation of the Chinese under the law will not be carried out to any great extent, however, at least not at present, for, as has been indicated in these columns long since, there is not money enough available for the purpose. Of the 110,000 Chinese in the country only 4,000 have registered. About $25,000 is available to send the remainder who have not registered, and who may be arrested and condemned to be deported, home to China, The cost of deportation is estimated at about $35 for each person, and the total sum required to enforce the Geary Act is about $6,000,000. But these estimates may prove to be very incorrect. In the case of two inoffensive Chinese in New York city found to be legally residing in the country it actually cust this government $924 to send them home.
ANOTRER ELEMENT, however, is sure to come into the question of Chinese deportation, It has scarcely deen heard of yet, but if the Geary Act, or the provisions of an earlier law which it is now the duty of the Administration to enforce, requiring that all Chinese who are not legally entitled to residence in the country should be deported, are actually put in force, there will come a wail and strong protests from the Pacific slope—the very home of all recent legislation adverse to the Chinese. Possibly too, it may dawn upon the intellects of some individuals in Congress who are responsible for the Geary and other ex-seclusion laws, that it is wiser to regard the true interests of the State of California than the noisy clamour of the San Praneisco hoodlums. There was a time, not many years since, when the development and prosperity of California were rendered possible only by the labour of Chinese. When Mr. B Jingame promised employment for a million Chinese un the PaciBe coast, it was not without a knowledge of the actual conditions and needs of the country. About the sume time was heard the complaint all through the agricultural sections of the State, of the insufficiency of labour, and chile the hoodlums were crying out against inese cheap labour," the farmers re cognised the fact, that "only higher wage: which they were willing to pay, "would bring the Chinese over."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.