Chapter 24 Act 22 Trial of Cleveland

The scene is the same as Act 1. God Lee: (Stands up, hits the gavel) Now announce the opening of the 22nd Court of the "Last Judgment" (sit down).The defendant is Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. (Cleveland stands.) God Lee: You are Cleveland, born in 1837, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland: Yes. God Lee: In the last trial, the Stone Spring riot case was being heard. In that massacre, white atrocities spread to the western United States. In less than a month, Chinese people in Seattle were killed and burned. Cleveland: I've taken riot and protective action in Seattle.

God Lee: Conservation Action?Are you doing enough?You came to power in 1885. Just two years after you came to power, attacks against Chinese spread across the western United States. Stone Springs was the most serious place. 29 Chinese were killed and 15 were injured. The rest fled to the mountains and suffered property losses. $147,000.Zheng Zaoru, the Chinese Minister to the United States, protested that your Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard is the same as the Secretary of State Evarts in 1880. The prevarication reason is that the US central government cannot control the local area.However, this time the Chinese envoy took advantage of it. The Chinese reason was that Shiquan belonged to the Wyoming Territory, and Wyoming was not a state of the United States at that time...

Harrison: (interrupting) Wyoming didn't become a state until 1890, when I was in office. God Li: Since Wyoming was not a state at the time, the central government had the right to interfere. However, the dignified American government failed to protect the Chinese and violated the 1880 immigration treaty with China.After two months of protests in China, your Secretary of State Bayard replied, saying that the U.S. government recognizes the obligations in the treaty and the responsibility of international friendship, but the U.S. government is not responsible for the illegal actions of the Americans.What is this talking about? Ask President Harrison who just interrupted here. In 1891, the sailors of your ship "Baltimore" (Baltimore) caused trouble on the streets of Chile and were attacked. Didn't you, Harrison, force the Chilean government? Lost $75,000?Are you not the President of the United States, Harrison?Chile compensates the United States, but the United States does not compensate China. Isn't this a shame for the United States?

Harrison: This is President Cleveland throwing the United States face. Cleveland: (angry) This Harrison, talking nonsense. God Lee: He's not talking nonsense, but he's just like you. On February 17, 1890, when President Harrison was in office, the local government of San Francisco suddenly ordered the Chinese to move all my houses outside the city within 60 days, or they would be arrested and imprisoned.The Chinese embassy in the United States immediately protested, and President Harrison's secretary of state, Bren, replied that the reason was still old-fashioned, and that the federal government had no right to interfere with local administration.As for whether it violates the Constitution and the treaty, the Supreme Court has replied that it does violate the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the treaty between China and the United States. However, sorry, the United States is a country with separation of powers, and our federal government can do nothing .These shameless nonsense are the things that happened when President Harrison was in office, just like you, President Cleveland.

Cleveland: (embarrassed) I really didn't expect us Americans to be so sorry to the Chinese. God Lee: President Cleveland, you should understand the overall consequences.Do you know the anti-Chinese situation in the 20th century when President Roosevelt was old? In April 1902, the U.S. Congress decided to continue to extend indefinitely all the laws prohibiting the entry of Chinese immigrants, and prohibited Chinese laborers and their wives and children from entering the United States; in 1924, during the time of President Coolidge, the wives of Chinese businessmen were further prohibited from entering the country, and the world was divided into There are 3 major immigration areas, that is, the unqualified area, the unrestricted area, and the quota allocation area.All countries in the Far East and the Pacific islands not under the jurisdiction of the United States are all ineligible areas. People in these areas are not allowed to immigrate to the United States, and those who are already in the United States are not eligible to obtain American citizenship.Because of the passage of this string of bills, the Chinese are specifically excluded.Interesting, the Japanese, Germans, and Italians are all enemies of the United States, and their people are not excluded in this way. You are specifically against the Chinese, aren’t you?When you came to the New World, you claimed to bring light to people, but in the end, you killed people like hemp, from Indians to Chinese, and did not allow Chinese people to come to the New World. This is the light you brought, isn’t it? On October 28, 1886, you presided over the opening ceremony of the Statue of Liberty sent by France. When you unveiled it, weren't you ashamed?

Cleveland: Please also tell me about my friendliness towards the Chinese. God Lee: Do you have any?Oh, you are the first, maybe the only one among the presidents of the United States to have eaten "chop-suey", of course before you were secretly operated on for oral cancer. Cleveland: (wry smile) God Lee knows it all.I stand here just begging to believe that I may have done something else to love America. God Lee: Like, evading military service? Cleveland: I did pay that 32-year-old Polish immigrant to serve in my army for $150, but God Lee must know that buying someone to serve as a soldier for me is legal.

God Lee: It does comply with your conscription law of 1863, strange conscription law.I admit that you are much more "honorable" than President Clinton if you didn't serve in the army. Cleveland: They're deserters, it's a shame. God Lee: Are they enemies? Cleveland: (hesitating) Maybe? God Lee: General Edward S. Bragg stood by you, stating in his speech: "He was loved for his integrity, his vision, his fortitude; he was loved as hell for his enemies." ( They love him...for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.) This famous saying was later turned into the first person "We love him for having such enemies" ( We love him for the enemies he has made.) I think General Brigge would love you more if you denounced a president like you who did not serve in the military as an enemy.

Clinton: (stands suddenly) God Lee, I protest!I have moral reasons for objecting to military service. God Lee: You won't suffer.Cleveland, who refused to participate in the Civil War, evaded military service. If the reason is not up to you, you can also regard him as an enemy.But you have to be careful with him. When he was a sheriff (security officer) in Erie County, New York, he could put a rope around the neck of a condemned prisoner with his own hands, kick open the trap door of the gallows, and hang the prisoner. Clinton: (surprised) Whoops!Then I have to take back my words, he is not an enemy, I want to be friends with him.

(Laughter, Clinton sits down.) God Lee: President Cleveland, I saw a little card that said: Grover Cleveland did not marry until he was forty-nine at which time his wife was twenty-one. Cleveland had been her guardian since she was eleven. You were 19 years old and married a 21-year-old bride. You were hers Guardian, when she was 11 years old.This is another kind of "childhood sweetheart", right? Cleveland: I'm glad I've had amazing experiences that no one else has. God Lee: Among all the presidents of the United States, you are the only one who served two terms and was re-elected after a 4-year interval.One of your famous sayings is: What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?Do you really insist on choosing again and again?

Cleveland: Really. God Li: If some perseverance can be applied to Chinese people, I will believe you.Retire from the court (The curtain falls.)