Speech #450113354

I do not believe. nor would I for a moment be influenced to cast my vote in favor of 5Ir. flmem understands that the statutes of the State of California prohibit. in words. the attendance of Chinese children at the public schools. the abrogation of a treaty. where we invite another nation to send their people into our own country and then turn around and tell the very peoplewhomwe have invited into onrown country under treaty stipulations that they shall not come into this country for the simple reason that they cheapen labor. I do not believe that such an argument would be addressed to France or England or any of the other great Christian states of Europe. Suppose that the French Canadians were to immigrate in large numbers into the State of Massachusetts. as they are doing today. and on account of their economical habits they could afford to live at a rate 50 per cent. cheaper than the Anterican artisan. suppose on account of some great changes in the Republic of France a large immigration of French citizens should come into the State of Louisiana or into any other State. knowing as we do that they can live upon onethird what it costs the American operative or the Americanalaborer to live. would any Senator undertake to legislate. to tell the French or English government that for that reason their citizens or their subjects shall no longer come to the United States? What cause of complaint isit to say that the Chinese eat rats? Is that any reason why a treaty should be abrogated.