CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12] — Page 274

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sympathy with the feeling on the part of Chinamen which

had given rise to the boycott. They felt that the exolusion

laws had been administered with much too great rigor and

with greatly more severity than was consistent with the

rights of the merchant and the student class, and they

ventured to point out four respects in which they thought

the treaty and the laws might very well be modified and

secure from Chinamen generally an approval of the changes.

In the first place, they thought that the

term "labourer" ought to be more clearly defined. To this

Mr. Taft assented. He said that the rulings of the Bureau

of Commerce and Labour were not in his judgment always

just, and that it was far better if possible, as he thought

it was, to make a division which would leave no doubt

either in the mind of the official enforcing the law, or

of the Chinaman leaving his own country to apply for ad-

-mission to the United States.

Hon. Dr. Ho Kai then resumed, by saying that

there was a custom among Chinese merchants, for the purpose

of continuing the firm beyond their own lives, to take

with them into the United States as a part of the personnel

of their business, shop assistants, or persons who would

correspond to clerks and salesmen in the business of a

merchant of the United States, who were taken out with the

idea of subsequently, after having experience enough, enter -ing the firm and becoming partners. Such men, he said,

were not coolies and did not belong to the labour class,

alghough of course in the discharge of their duties there

was some manual labour to perform, as that of showing goods

of putting them back on the shelves, etc. Mr. Taft said

that he thought there was a clear distinction between a

labourer and a clerk or salesman in a merchant's store,

and that he personally saw no objection to an exclusion of

such a class from the definition of labourer; that he would

bring this matter to the attention of the President.

Second.