Speaking for myself. and I presume it was so with the others of the. party. representatives of all the American business interests there talked to me in regard to this condition. In addition to that. three of us met a large party of Americans who were affected by the boycottthose who were being hurt and who lived there. They were vitally concerned. and it was from them that we got the Information. We asked them if they expected us to go back and advocate the admission of Chinese coolies in order to raise the boycott? They said: By no manner of means. We are too good Americans for that.