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INSURANCES

PHONIX FIRE OFFICE

The Undefsigual are now prepared to GRANT POLICIES of INSURANCE against FIRE at Current Rates.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.

Agents for the Phamix Five Ofire, Hongkong, 17th Anynet. 1887.

THE UNITED STATES "AND",

CHINA.

REPLY TO CONSUL HO YOW.

THIS HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY OCTOBER 29TH, 1901

This Sun Francisco Chronicle of the 27th

Ho

alt says:--

Chihose Consul-Goneval at this port, makes a crafty uppeal to the commercint in stincts of Americans in the Bast, in his articles in the North American Heriew. He attempts to show that, by reason of the enforcement of exelasion laws against the Chinese, the empire has been closed to American goeds, and thuit it will not open to Americans until the people of Chian are permitted to

•pass unrestricted

into the United States. He draws a picture of Sau EVILE Undersigned, having been appointed actment of the exclusion laws, trying to make Francisco cominurey, hafore and after the GENERAL AGENTS for the abore- Company, are prepkend to ACCEPT RIKSpear that business fell off by million be

cates of the eselusion of Chine." at curvat rates

QURBAINE" FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, L. (Establinked 189.)

The Englisla cumanist agrees with the Amer ican Count-General in his description of streng labour auiens among the Chiuose, and adds

It is probable that workmen employed in cotton-mills will combius, but there is in China draultul proverty of the musses, due to rapid increase of population, wherever a district has been spared rebellion and famine for a few tens of years, and nothing can keep up the wages of common labour, which must remain, undor tho present system, close on starvation point.”

No wonder Ho Yow is doing his utmost to open the way for these patient millions into the ruited States, where Chirusa in two years, at ordinary trock, make enough to heop them for the rest of their lives in comfort in Chine on the Chinese basis of living.

Ho You's.

CHRISTMAS

Mounted na CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR CARDS, with CHINESE GREETINGS Stamped in real Gold in Chinese Characters with English Translations

PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS of HONGKONG, CANTON, MACAO and PEKING

MOTTOES:

A Merry Christmas and a Happy Now Your Plenty chancee, larges gain;

Dollar come alla same rain

.

Wishing you Happiness and Longevity

Success Crowns your Undertakings ↑

The tenth, as shown by the official reports, seriously cripples Ho You. The merchants of China do not infuriste at all. They probably have never heard of American trades

unione, and they have no concern with American in migration laws. Thoy attend triedly to business. Thecrotically, the Chinese of Chin should, perlups, stund as one man and boycott the United States because of its exclusion of Ta fnot, however. their coelie countrymen. they are no such sentiment. It is every man for himself, and the devil taka the bindniöst.

Ameriena enterprise, producing cheaper goods that other countries, ims apone the lips of the Shantung ogster. Under an accurate syston of recording commerce, it could be shown that are getting away with it, shoil and all. Aneriguns have not only opened the oyster, buk

Acolber statement by Io You and reiterateți unskilled, menial, sind non-competitive us he in various forms, is that the liness are an

would make the appear. They use the most skilled race, and therefore annast enter inin approved pattern of machinery. utal are paid competition argues nges that bestarvation

union with American labour. Is an American mid duration to the MESSRS, KELLY & WALSH, LD. sings, and that they relieve whites tu dari labourer perierus more work than the MESSRS. W. BREWER & CO. grading drudgery. The labour arbonists con-

Chinese, the latter will turn out manufactures eive the thinarian to be a competitor, says elisaper, oven though swarns of them are He You. This is in no evo a fret. He gaired to perform the work; for the opern- air, metines thug will domand and insists that they ar nuskiliol. When, how Lives will have pressing upon them the mass of millions of cheap workers, with just as good ated as a cone ever lighted Chinese use of they [1] is કાર્યો ! STEMSSEN' & cd.sidents in California withdrew from industry.vive their full ciue in rato of wages," he says.

close on starvation paint."

P. LEMAIRE & CO.

Ho Yor, alming his argument at Eastern Hongkong 7th February, 1001 [40 Feople who are not end to know the truth of conditions here crus with hundreds of TORTH GERMAN PIRE INSUR millions, and gives a grotesque idea of the

ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG situation that prevailed in San Francis

before and after 1880.." His words ava The Undersigned AGENTS of the above The gala days of San Francisco's life and Company giga and Chinese Risks at Curren 1850. The jassage of the exclusion la apex Company are PLED TO ACCEPT Firm-happiness were during the years that prended

Rates.

Hongkong, 29th May, 1899, 91

UN INSURANCE OFFICE, LONDON

-FOUNDED 1710.

The Undersigned luring been appointes

redused their properties to coin, and with it

returned to China, scrambling cat of a emuairy which they deemed inhospitable and safe Bashhess dried up Trade with China, which had lean advancing at the mie of St.000.000 year, tell off $7,000,000 in two years. It never AGENTS for the above Company, are pre-revived until Dewoy's victory. During the parel to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE interim San Francisco lost $200,000,000 of Current Rates,

business in her trade with China The SIEMSSEN & CO., city shrank in ruterprise and population. pete Agents.

The best method of ascertaining t

the truth as Hongkong, 16th May, 1392

to the offact, of Chineys unclusion upon sur commerce with Chinu is to exunino_the“ villeial TRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSUR TANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG tieul Abstract, show that He Yow's simile of a

figuros. These figures, taken from the tali cone over a lighted candle is inappropriate So far as the commerce of the United States with Chins is concerned, it could with greater plausibility be argued that the exclusion at the Chinese was a powerful stimulant. Trile in erense rapidly after the Chinese had been excluded, as indicated:

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The Undersigned, having been appointer AGENTS for the above Company, are pre pared to ACCEPT EISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

SIDMSSEN & CO.,

Agents.

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Hongkong, 16 November, 1872. THE WESTERN ASSURANCE COM. PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA, "INCOLPORATED 1951.

CAPITAL ****

E Undersignal, having bez orointed TENTS for the there. Compact, th prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.

WM METERINK & CO.,

Agánis... 1585

Hongkong, 18th May, 1900. SALAMANDER FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,

The Undersigned, having been appointed The Doors Company, are prepared to ACCEPT I(KƐ against FIRE at Current Rates.

HOTZ, JACOB & CO.

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Hangkong, 2nd April, 1900, NILE INSURANCE COMPANY

TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN TOTAL FUNDS AT 91st DECEMBER, 1900, £15,732,681

I. ADTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 0 SUBSCRIBED Capital.... 2,750,000 0 PAID UP CAPTIAL...... 687,500 0 2,833,716 14 II. FIRE FUNDS

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The Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, are pre pared to ACCEPT LINKS against FIBE a Current Rates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

Agante. Hongkong, 3rd July 1901. 2 1841 AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN-

BURANCE COM

OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL

THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, ar prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIR at Current Bates.

REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.,

Agenta. Hengkong, 21st April 1997.

PIANOFORTE TUNING AND

REPAIRING;

to

R. E. A BROWNE is prepared Mndertake the abores at reasonable rates.

All Repairs dout personally.

TUNING

Address

$3.50.

Caro of DRAGON CYCLE STORE,

D'Aguilar Street. Hongkong, 4th September, 1901. [2250

TSANG FOO & CO,

SAM WING HING

典榮

COAL MERCHANTS,

No. 48, DES VŒUX ROAD CÓNTRAL.

Telephone No. 929.

Hongkong, 23rd September, 1901.

B. J. REMEDIOS,

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1860

1881 1882

Total imports and exports. $27,099,482 33,062,091 31,762,313

And so on, with a fuctasting ratio of in- crense, up to 1900, when the total commerce with China (including Hongkong) Yus 832,269.686.

In 1887 the value of China's trade with the United States (excluding Hongkong), according to the Staterman's Year Book, was £5,331,251* or 12.13 per cent. of the total trade of the IT- pire In 1897 this trade had increased to £8,500,802, or 15,02 per cent. of the total trade a gain of 59.02 per cont. These figures prove that Dewey's victory in 1898 was not the cause of a rapid growth of commerce between the United States and China.

The simple truth is that the exclusion of Chinese from the United Statea has had no effect whatever on commerce between the two countries, even in the insignificant item of foodstuffis imported by Chinese into this country for their own consumption. They are some what exclusive in their tastes, and have a fancy for bringing dried fish, giz, pickled vegetables sto, from their own country. An examination of one month's importations, laken at random from the loul Custom-lause records, shows that as much of this staff is imported now asin 1881. Taking the great staple of commerce, it is Impossible to fideither in the offelul American or Chinese figures that the exclusion laws have had any deterrent effects on rade. Nor is it likely that the removal of these laws would stimulate trade. The Chinese, as Ho Yow knows, bare absolutely no sentiment in busi- ness. They will buy Amoriens goods if they are cheaper than those of other countries, sad they will sell their silks and tous to American

yuickly as to any other people Millions of Chinese have barely heard of the United States, and know nothing of exclusion laws: They purchase but a small fraction of the goods thay ensue from the United States or any other foreign country. The bulk of alt foreign goods and principally in the ports. In many reports entering Chias is consumed along the seab mal, from American Consuls in China, uention in male of our exclusion laws as affecting com merca, either for good or ill The Chinese coming or attempting to come to the United States are an infinitesimal part of that taul population. The Chinese us 2 Exey know practically nothing of us, and are less.

In other words, he asks Ameriet te on the

-conulzymen are, after all, not so

My chin olin in Hongkong

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AND OTHER STORES.

capacity themselves, and wages must remain RUPTURE RELIEVED AND

Ho Yow, wittingly or unwittingly, misstates OFTEN CURED

The conclusion 6 the whole matter is that

aur

over

BY THE USE

OF OUR

PATENT TRUSS INVENTION.

The Eunnet, October 3rd. 1885, says: "It is comfortable, adapts itself reality to the movement of the body, ani is very effective."

the facts when he deus that Lao Chines exclusion laws have hindered commeren butveon the United States and China; that our com merce with China (of which San Francisco in

1599 shared over 17 par cent, of experts

cent, 20 per

of imports) is rowing rapidly, during the times that this country that the Chiness as a race are not Chinese are being more rigidly excluded from pre-concerned with axelusion, and are buying our of entering into ruinous competition with goods freely; that they are a skilled race, capable Americaux and that, in addition to continuing HODGES & CO., 89, COLLEGE STREET, CHELSEA, LONDON, SW.

gates to the yellow workers, and give them a chance to learn the use of machinery. Then the Chien will reciprocate by demanding and receiving us high wages as Ainericans doing the same work. For not conferring this boon on the Chinese, the United States is pursuing a of disaster not paralleled in modern policy tiems, kys He You.

He fails to state whether the disaster falls upon the United States upon the Chinese who are thus ruthlessly vented from undering white labour.

Ara Chiness unskilled, and do they receive full wages when they bacon skilled Tho, answer to this question was made in the Chronicle a few days ago, concerning tho Chinese at work in this country. It was shown, by quific citations, that the Chinese are a skilled people, not only doing the work in cun- nuries, shirt-factories, shoe factories, women's wear-factories, broom-factories, cigar-factori, etc., but they own and manage the samo. They have driven white cigarmakers out in many cases, and they outaamber the white broomakers and shirtankers in Saa Francisco

Ho Yow's statement that the Chinese damsud and rooivu full wages whom they become skilled is totally inaccurate. The skillsi Chinese of California invariably receive less wages, than whites dong the same work. The Chinese live in squalor and ignorance; raise their families on a plane Hittle higher than Hogs, have no regard for Amerciau usages, and return bomo to China with their money as soon as possible. In every case where they compete with white labour the result is degrading, demoralising and rninous to the whites, who cannot bring themselves to live on the same bestial plane as the Chinese..

That is the situation in this country. But perhaps Ho Yow was alluding to Chinose in China Possibly he means say that the Chinese at home are unskilled, and that when they become skilled they demand and receive higher wages,

Here, however, the Consul-Geveral's astute appoul to the Eastern American is again based on thin air. Reputable Americans, inandis g our Consuls, give tastiidony to the skill of the Chinese, and to the starvation wages thoy

siya. Tiny are, in fact, a skifled race, particularly in work requiring dexterity and patient attention to detail. They learn the uses of moliuery quickly, and utilise American inventions irithout compunction or projudice. But the empire is suffocating with cheap labour. Fand its bright men like Ho Yow and Minister Wu are using every effort to provide an outlet into the United States, Here the pastures are greon, wages high, habite of living extravagant, and the Chinese would grow fat even from the crunts of white labour's tablo.

The American Consul-General at Shanghai has this to say of wages paid to skilled mechanics (Chi eso):

Trades unionism has for ages baen firmly It receives offiebil established in China. recognition; its rules are stringent; it is are all too plentiful ad human life is cheap, so tonacions of its privileges. But human hands that it comes to pass that many skilled

In 1898 the British Parliament received a report from a commission sont to in resligate the counvercial kitwutine in China. The report was writen by F S A. Bonrne. He devoted some aẞention to the future of inanufacture by Western mathods, in China, and on the question

British Medical Journal, May, 1885, says: "It is a very ingenious and successful tross,' their attention and skill to the improvement of trusses, for the treatment of various kinds of Medical Times and Hospital Gazette, 1885, says: " Hodges & Co. have for years past devoted Hernia, following the principles huid down by Professor Wood, of King's College Hospital,"

Particulars-

must employ its greatest enterprise and skill if the policy of strict exclusion of Chinese com petitors on Americau soil, the United States

inrcutis of awakening Chinese competition. it would proserve its Asiatic markets from the GREGRECKE Under these circumstances the people residing in the eastern portion of the United States ought to see the felly of letting down the barn of Chinese exclusion on the advies of the shrewd agent of the Chinese empire stationed at San Francisco.

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No. 252, Des Vœux ROAD WEST, Hongkong, Have always on and a Largs Stock of the following Timber:- AMERICAN PINE and FIE, BANGKOK TEAKWOOD, HARDWOOD, &c., že. tin Logs and Planks). An inspin is respectfully, solicited. Bengkung, 5th September, 1901.

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sebaris receive but 15 cauts Maxican a day while master workmen get 20 to 25 cents, a thee spinen labourer saves himself from starving on twa Mexicu dollars & month. Those wages must be cut almost in half for expression in United States money. Frequently there aru The argument is adrament by Ho You and

wives and children to be supportal, too, but in others that the restriction on the entry of the poorest families these smbers frequently Chiness, merchants into this country is too End employment in some of the mince indus- sover, and that commerce between the two tries, the women, perhaps, in the manufacture countries suffers in consequence. The term of shoe solos, the children in making paper Chinese merchant" is a byword and a reproach, money for offerings to the dead; or, as in ade so by the Chitose themselves. One Shanghai, in the manufacture of match boxes. Chinese firm in Chicago, doing a business of and so the slender earnings of the husband and 85,000 a year, claimed to have sinety-six part-father aro eked out. As things are at presgut Dera! The facts coming before the Collector, we cannot view with indifference the prospect upon an application of one of this swurm of of bringing the products of our own wage partners for admission into the country. he

eurners into competition with the cheap refused anch permission and the Treasury Guilers Department sustained him. The ordinary Chinose merchant" carries on a business of gambling and lottery-playing, under the cloak of a merchandise store. Dozens of such "stones" are in oxistence throngiunt California. - Mer- chants who chaitu to carry a'stock worth $8,000

empty boxes and a little rice, tes and gin, worth less than 3500. Anda establishment carries the weight of from five to rise somewhat in the faturs for the more skilled LNG CARTRIDGES NEWCASTLE

elangen of labour, as tho amber actually efficient CHILLED SHOT. twenty-five partners. The influence of sch people upon the commerce of the United States must be invited, at least until the system of with China is on a par with that of our italian apprenticeship, which is univeral in China, boat-blacks upon the politics of the Vatican. kus had moda take real ju-regard to the new In San Francisco and the larger towns of industry, bat any great change in the level of the State any a few large and well-mnunged wages among the plain workers must be very Chinese stores, landing Chinese curios and show, as the operatives will have pressing upon hunafactured ware, whose proprietors are then the inass of millions of chop werkers, neveirants in the strict sense. They are not with just as gool capacity as themselves. The confounded with the fronds who set up truth is that a man of good physical and in- Chinatown doggory aud while making their living as garants, tellectus qualities, regarded inerely as u comonic factor, is turned out cheaper by the Merchants of the Pacific, saya Ho You, Chinese than by any other race. He is deficient talk of the vast market of the Orient for in the lugher moral qualities, individual trust- their goods. That market is as truly closed to worthiness, pubic spirit, sense of duty, and then co the lips of a Shantung oyster 17. setive courage, a group of qualities perhaps If the Consul-General is right, why is it that best represented in our language by the word larger steamships and more of them aro bing manliness. but in the humbler oral qualities put into the trans-Pacific trade? How does Ho of patience, mental and physical, and persever Yow explain the reports from American consulsance in labour he is unrivalled.

VOREIGN AND COLONIAL STAMP of $10,000 bars in reality only a collecting

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GOLD STORAGE.

THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED To prepare se perishable gro ristors for Cold Storage at EAST FOINT at

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Henokane, 17th February, 1899.

AN-WAL

Manager, 165

M MARBLE AND GRANITE

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"In regard to wages, employers in China are

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pro-

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HOLLIDAY, WISE & CO. Hongkong, 16th September. 1899,

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C. E. WARREN, BUILDING CONTRACTOR, in China showing a rapid increase in commerce P "These millions of patient, reasonable workers

After quoting from the reports of various are only wanting leaders to make them

No. 3A, WYNDHAM STREET, U.S. Consuls in Chin, the Chronicle con

ducers op

gigantic scale, and leaders they CANITARY APPLIANCES SUPPLIED will most certainly find. Whatever the fatura and FIXED. Specially Designed TRAPS in politics of China may be, here these workers for Bathrooms and Verandahs in Stock. must remain and they are, in my opinion, des Agent for MOSAIC TILES.

Prices: on fined to modify profoundly the condition of the Application.

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at No. 1, Queen's Road East, Hongkong- Hongkong, 17th October, 1899. 12616

OREGON LUMBER.

All these matters, available to Ho You or any other advocate of Chiness immigration, prove that commeren between the United States and China is much larger than is oolly reportat, and that the Chinese do not hesitate to use American goods

THE Undersigned, being plopoly connectedThe merchands of the great consuming Twith the loading MILLS FORT nation of China have become infuristot, de-

LAND and PUGET SOUND, are always pro claros. Ho Yow, by the treatment their pared to book orders for any specifications at countrymen have received through laws adopted LOWEST RATES ALATAR and of the instigation of laboar nuionsts, and they

SIEMSSEN & CO. refuse to buy the product of the labour uniozista Hongkong, 14th February, 1961. [50 work

sindustries on manufactare, all Western To return to cotton they gel in lightness, and deftasss of hand, YEE employers and overseers of Chinese agree that and that they are well suited in physique and

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