Not shiploads. perhaps. but they are coming in all the while one way and another. These contracts are being made. such as are referred to in this very article. showing the prices paid. as much as $1.300 being paid for one woman. They are regular written contracts drawn up. signed. sealed. and delivered. Now. where I think the Committee on Foreign Relations are in one respect at fault in not reaching far enough in order to suppress this evil is in their recognition of the right of merchants. socalled. to come to this country. As stated by the Senatorfrom Washington today. the testimony shows that there are really no merchants who come to this country. but hundreds of mere coolie laborers. come in professing to be merchants. proved to be merchants by perjured Chinese testimony. and thus violate both law and treaty and defy the national authority.
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Chinese laborers are coming to the country under false pretenses, violating the law and treaties.