The people with whom we talked would not say they thought the Japanese were behind the boycott. but that is the easy inference. We asked them why the Cantonese people. or those In that district. were so anxious to have the Chinese cooly come to the United States. They said because all the coolies in the United States are from the Canton district That is not literally true. but 90 per cent at least of the Chinamen in the United States come from that district alone and most of them from Canton. and they send back to that district some $25.000.000 a year to their merchants and to their people. and those remaining there argue that if more Chinese coolies came here from the Cantonese district. just so many times $25.000.000 a year would go back to Canton and to that district. and $25.000.000 is an enormous sum in China. Now. the viceroy sympathizes with this boycott He pays no attention to orders from Peking. The Peking Government can not enforce its demands.