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    The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868
    The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868
    The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868
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    The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868

    By Mark Twain

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    The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868
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    Mark Twain

    Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard L. Stein are members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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      Twain's droll humor is such that sometimes I find myself wondering if he was serious or really kidding. His take on our treaty and relations with China and "Chinamen" was ahead of his time obviously.

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    Title: The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained

           New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868

    Author: Mark Twain

    Release Date: July 4, 2010 [EBook #33077]

    Last Updated: October 31, 2012

    Language: English

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    THE TREATY WITH CHINA

    ITS PROVISIONS EXPLAINED

    By Mark Twain

    New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868

    Every one has read the treaty which has just been concluded between the United States and China. Everyone has read it, but in it there are expressions which not every one understands. There are clauses which seem vague, other clauses which seem almost unnecessary, and still others which bear the flavor of surplusage, to speak in legal phrase. The most careful reading of the document will leave these impressions—that is, unless one comprehends the past and present condition of foreign intercourse with China—in which case it will be seen at once that there is no word in the treaty without a meaning, and no clause in it but was dictated by a present need or a wise policy looking to the future. It will interest many of your readers to know why this, that, and the other provision was incorporated in the treaty; it will interest others to know in what manner and to what extent the treaty will affect our existing relations with China. Apart from its grave importance, the subject is really as entertaining as any I know of and—asking pardon for the presumption—I desire to write a few paragraphs upon it. We made a treaty with China in 1858; Mr. Burlingame's new treaty is an addition to that one, and an amplification of its powers. The first article of this new treaty reads as follows:

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    ARTICLE I.

    His Majesty, the Emperor of China, being of the opinion that in making concessions to the citizens or subjects of foreign Powers of the privilege of residing on certain tracts of land, or resorting to certain waters of that Empire for the purposes of trade, he has by no means relinquished his right of eminent domain or dominion over the said land and waters, hereby agrees that no such concession or grant shall be construed to give to any Power or party which may be at war with or hostile to the United States the right to attack the citizens of the United States or their property within the said lands or waters; and the United States, for themselves, hereby agree to abstain from offensively attacking the citizens or subjects of any

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