28rd August, In his speech to the pro-boycott meeting at Wuhu on the 13th,'in permitting which the' native Chief Police seems to have conveniently forgotten his recent proclamation, 'H.E, Tsui, ex-Minister to the U.S, jis reported to have said that "the United States is a just Government, and the present President is especially so." If he really thought that, and there was no reagan' why he Should not utter his real ' thoughts ata meeting that was in sympathy with him, his obvious duty was to -tell his hearers to-proceed no farther with the boycott until iv was'knowh What form Congress will give to the new 'Treaty, 1t: being'admitted then that President' Roosevelt' is gifted with an capedially keen' sense of justice, H. OK. Tsui and his fiends should ave'been content to accept the declaratioti of tho'President's determination contained in his loiter to the Acting 'Secretary of State, dated Washington, the 24th' of June, "The President' begins by it strucs-ing the State 'Department "to issue immediately to all the U.S. diplomats and consular representatives in' China, a circular containing the facts set forth in his letter,'aud stating that it is issued: by his direct order. ° He says "Under the laws: of the United S ates, and in accordance' with -the spirit of the treaties - negotiated between the United "States and China, all Chinese.of the coolie or labouring class—that is, all "Chinese labourers, skilled or unskilléd—are absolutely prohibited from coming to the United States; but the.purpase of the Government of the Unites States is to show the, wid st, an¢
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