Speech #430031085

Thesame thing. I may soy here. has heretofore been attempted in Australia. but they. nore philosophical aid farseeing perhaps. than we. have suppressed it. There is no longer any Chinese emigration to Austraia. For certain political and social reasons they found it absolutely necessary to prohibit it. Formerly they had one hundred thousand. now they have twenty thousand. and in the adjoining island of New Zealand they have prohibited and excluded it entirely. I have stated that not one in a thousand comes to the Stasteof California for the purposesof euoosity. or of trad.or as a l)ormotnent resident. according to thelangnageof thistreaty. They do notcome thero as free. voluntary imnaignents. with wives and children and the surroundings of hoetu. hut they come under servilelaborceontraets entered into before they leave the ports of China. and against the prohibition or decrees of the Chinese government. In a conversation that I had with Governor Low. our minister to China. a short time lbfore I left California. ho told me that the Chinese government had tried in every way to carry out the provisions of this treaty by prohibiting this kind of emigration. knowing that it was contrarytoouriaws and contrary to the provisions of article 5 of this treaty . but it is carried on through the English port of HongKong. outside of the jurisdiction of Chinese authority and law We cannot complain of the Chinese government as -violating that treaty by encouraging an invountary emigration nndor thess servilelabor contracts. They are enticed to the port of HongKong by the agents of the parties that own and control them in the State of Cali fornia. and they are embarked froni that port. and the Chinese government have no controlover it.or if it had. as I amintormed. it would have been suppressed long ago. The facts are these: all the Chinese in California are owned by companies. known as the six Chinese companies. an association of Chinese capitalists located in San Francisco. who have their agents in China. at HongKong and in the interior. collecting from that vast population the refuse. the most degraded portions of it. binding them to these servilelabor contracts. under which they are brought to Californin. and all Chinese soimported are owned and controlled by these six companies as effectually. as thoroughly. as the slaves of theSoath were formerly owned and controlled by their masters.