Mr. President.isnot anoldone. Asstatedin an article recently published in the New York Nation. and referred to by the honorable Senator from California in his speech the other dayCaliforniaAnd the editor might have added the whole Pacific coastis the only American community and. in fact. the only western community from the beginning of history which has had any experience of the actual effect of a Chinese immigration. The immigration from which we in the Eastern States are obliged to draw all one inferences as to the probable effect of such an experiment haRoon from countries which are allied to our own by race. language. religion. c custoims. and the few Chinese whose acquaintance we have made have been chiefly oljects of curiosity to as. To California they have come in numbers. and. speaking a different langoiage. worshiping unknown gods. keeping alive imported customs and traditions. they form ahiost a separate caste. Now such a state of affairs is. under our system of government. very difficult to deal with.
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Chinese immigrants are described as forming a separate caste with different language, gods, and customs.