The proposition may reach us in that shape. and if so I may have some words to say to satisfy the Senate that it is wise and just and expedient that we should adopt it. that it violates no national faith. and that if the government with which we negotiated that treaty is right it may well afford to terminate the provisions of those two articles in the treaty. This is the practice. these are the precedents to which I refer. and they ought to guide us in the case before us. We may have the power. we may say that we will violate the article of the treaty with China that allows an unrestricted emigration of her citizens to this country L we may have the power to do it. but when we have done that. we have done that precisely which will bring in all human probability reprisals from that government upon us. John Chinaman is no fool. and I think this whole thing here is illustrated by that poem which has been so celebrated and with which we are so familiar and which was the production of Bret Harte in which he describes so graphically and teaches us a lesson so morally that when two Caucasians. Yankees if you please. undertook to cheat one Chinaman and were unsuccessful they were.very much opposed to "Chinese cheap labor." because the one John Chinaman overreached the two Yankees. I think it teaches a moral that applies to this case. I turn now to an examination of what has been said in this discussion in favor of the bill. It has been said that this treaty has been violated on the part of China. that she has passed no law in conformity with the sixth article of the treaty. regulating the free emigration of her citizens to this country. I have only to say that that is simply a declaration. We have had no evidence of it here. none whatever.
Identified stereotypes
Uses the stereotype of "John Chinaman" to suggest Chinese people are cunning and not easily cheated.