I trust I have been. and am now. in full accord with the liberal sentiments of the party to which I belong. and with which I have acted for the last fourteen years. While I do not claim to represent any political party in the views I now express here. yet I do claim to represent men of both parties and the interest of the laboring class of my State and the Pacificcoast. I do believe that this Government has the right and ought to exorcise it to prevent the immigration of any class of people to this country whose moral and social relations. whose habits and mode of life. are so at variance with the genius of our institutions. that they would cause the blush of shame to mantle the check of the most depraved of our own race. who bring their women hero as slaves to be sold into prostitution. aud who openly flaunt their immoral calling on the public streets in the very face of our wives and daughters. whose corrupting influence ott the youth of the country is to be regarded with horror. in fact. whose bligliting influence is felt and seen on every hand. This people breed a moral pestilence wherever they go. the increase of which is daily multiplying upon us with all of its evils. and yet in the very face of all these facts we are told we are powerless to remedy this evil. that its blighting curso is to be continued because we have a treaty. Then.
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Chinese immigrants are described as bringing moral pestilence, engaging in prostitution, and having corrupting influence.