Panama Chinese Protest.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 15, 1913:
Say That New Laws Will Drive Them Out of Business.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    PANAMA, June 14.— Panama is likely to have a Chinese question as serious as the Japanese question in California. The recent decrees and laws here practically drive the Chinese out of the republic. They are likely to be forced out of all businesses, although many of the leading merchants here are Chinese. The Chinese Ambassador at Washington has been appealed to by the Chinese Consul General O Wyang. The laws and decrees, however, are likely to stand.
    The Chinese say that the Panama Constitution gives them rights which are being ignored. If they cannot get satisfaction from Panama, it is said that they will ask the United States for protection. The Chinese merchants pay annually 70 per cent. of all the import duties of the republic, but the new laws would tax their Chamber of Commerce $1,000 a month.