20th Tanwary. sive from Mr. Gorge y U.S. Consul-ati ami U.S. Minyister at Peking, one of the ablest of he many able men that the United isi ut to China from time sits represen-atives, a copy of jan address on ©The United States Nand China" delivered by him before the Congregational Club of Brooklyn the 28th of Oxtober 1902. The question of the eve, he said, International Justice as to China,"
Wed, "the ne able inacrer in the wisiory of our domestic dealings with the Chinese is their exclusion from our territory." H" then gave a short historical sketch of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, pointing out, that in an Act of Congress in 1868 it was solemnly laid dowa as one of the great principles of the Republic that she "freely received emigrants from all nations and invested them with the rights of citizenship." Th" Burlingame Treaty of the same year one of its terms the following: ©The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recogn's: the inherent and ina'inable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the, fee migration and emigration of their citizens and swbjec's respectively from one country to the other, for the purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents." In 1879 Mr. Seward was at home on furlough, and seeing that the question of Chinese immigration was likely to become a factor in the Presidential election he, as Minister to China, drew up a. set of ions, to be adopted. by the nent, by which really undesirable immigrants. were to be excluded. They were approved en bloc by the then Secretary of State und subsequently by the Chinese Government, but on Mr. Ssward's returning them to the D-par; ment of State with the notice that China was ready to sign a Convention, embolying them, no notice whatever was taken of his report.
Dr. Angel, Mr. Trescott, and Mr. Swift were then sent out to China to negotiate an Exclusion Act, and Mr. Seward was calmly disavowed al he policy of exclisic orig nally an elecsionesring exp en', has een plain -d to this day, but Mr. Seward hops that sooner or later the question will em: for review under happier ausp ces." He then goes on to his second point "Justice ty the Chinese p ople and government as respects things that are domestic to them." Going. back to the inauguration of th: "cooperative policy" at Peking by Mr. Burlingame, whose colleagues in 1862 were Sir Frederick Bruce, England, M. Berthemy, France, and Generul Viangaly, Russia, he shows how that: policy lasted, mire or less, until the time of the 'China-Japan War. Thin came the fered retrocession of the Liantung peninsula by Japan at the instance of Russia, France, and Germany, in return for which Russia was secretly given the Manchuria Railway concession' and the Ivase of Port Arthur, Then Germany seized Kiaychou, and France leased Kuangehouwan, and England took over Weihaiwei from Japan. This led up to the Boxer outrages. China "responded when she was treated with justice; she responded also when she was trested.with injustice, Aod I know not,", says Mr. Seward, "who could expect that
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