Speech #450113356

President. I cenfess that the Senator from California has touched a very tender and a very weak spot in my nature. He represents that the AngloSaxon race on the Pacific coast are to be engaged in a struggle with the Mongolian race . that the interests of society are to be affected. that we are to have turbulence. violence. anarchy. revolution. and bloodshed. and that there is no power or authority in the Government to suppress that violent exhibition of white human nature. . We heard the Senator from Maine state that in his opinion if this immigration was not checked in five years from now it would require the United States Army to preserve the peace. merely because the presence of this people is offensive. merely because contact with this alien race is offensive. The inferior race does not claim. as is the case in Louisiana. to exercise any politicalrights . they do not engage in any contest for political supremacy. they do not claim to enact your laws. they do not claim to administer justice to you . they do not claim to control every interest which society holds dear and every right and privilege to which man is attached. but simply on account. of their presence in your midst the declaration is made in the Senate by republican leaders that you will have bloodshed and revolution. Sir. one thing has struck me during this and other discussions.