Speech #450105307

Yet an equally and. if possible. a more insidious danger must eventuate by the great increase of this servile population. That thisimmigration is in no mannerhomogeneeus with us as apeople. thattheir social wants. habits. and character differ so materially that the standard of labor mustbo debased to such a degree by their vitiating intuence as to repel vastbodies of our most valuable operatives. and not oul degrade the social status and moral welfare of ourproducing classes. but arrest ohe advancement of our civilization. That the Asiatic has displaced to a great extent the citizen operatives formerly engaged in the various manufactures of the city of San Francisco. and is rapidly diqilacin others. uhat a occupatins giving profitable employment to both male and female have suffered through this cause. That the aggregate diminution of wages to American citizenscannotbe less than 9.00eo00 annually. That the expenditure of such vast industrial resources thus withdrawn from circulation has entailed privation among the working classes. taxed the most generousbenevolence. and operatedmost detrimentally against the prosperity of the city. That the spread ant augmentation of the number throughout the State of Callferniahas seriously discoragedthe increase of the most desirable class of European immigrants. such additions to our industrial population aeeking homes wherelabor is lessaegraded orin greater demand. � That your petitioners would urge upon your honorable consideration the necessity of an immediate revision of our treaty relations with China to restrain this overwhelming evil. That all treaty stipulations should be based on the principle of reciprocal advantages. not mutual privileges. The right or privilege for a citizeoef the United States to migrate to China and for a subject of China to migrate to the United States are not mutual in advantages. for it is an advantage to the subject while it is disadvantageous to the citizen to migrate.