It is as patent and as true as anything. it is as certain as mathematics. that in securing that treaty there was no section of our country so earnest. so forward as that which lies upon the Pacific coast. We negotiated the treaty. we battered down a wall of commercial restriction that had surrounded the Chinese government in the long ages of the past. almost as restrictive as that Chinese wall that preserved that empire from the Tartar hordes of the north. We accomplished. however. the negotiation of a treaty which secured to us the right of trial by jury of our own citizens in that empire. which o pened up a given number of ports which should be accessible for the comerce of our country. and we granted in return the immigration of Chinese subjects to our own country. Why. sir. who does not remember with what welcome. with what rejoicing that treaty was hailed upon the Pacific coast. To say that they honored it is bardly adequate.
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