We have a Christian civilization. Apagan civilization is neecessatrily inconsistent with it. Take the State of Iowa. and take out sixty thousand of its white men. those who now give sinew to industry. who cause all the wheels of enterprise to revolve. and put in their place. in the place of the men who maintain churches. and schools. and free institutions. the Chinese. who come here for more temporary purposes. who do not come here to b citizens. who do not come here to be naturalized or to impart any value whatever to the comumity in which they reside. bitt simply to avail themselves of such means as such a community may furinish to got what the aminers in my State call . astake." and return back to their own country. and if they die in the meanwhile. to have their bones sent back. and I ask whether a curso would not be inflicted upon Iowa by such a change? It is true that we need labor to develop the resources of our country. that it is a pressing necessity upon America that these vast and magnificent resources of ours should be developed. but. sir. it would be botter that those resources should be developed more sjowly and be developed in the direotion of our Christian civilization than that we should squander them or throw them away upon an element which cannot assimilate with us. which never makes the attempt. which. as the snowball gathers the suw as it rolls. simply robs us of our material wealth to enrich China. and deprives our willing citizen laborers of the meuas of subsistence. Mr.
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Chinese immigrants are described as not contributing to the community, only taking from it, and not assimilating.