Speech #460076269

The people of the Pacific coast understand this proposition. Their eyes have been opened. For thirty years they have had large numbers of these Mongolians ih their midst. Business men in every department. working men and Women. al find themselves quietly. almost imperceptibly but steadily. being supplanted They have come to understand that the presence of thXeChiiese doss not mean competition but substitution. Hence the efforts they are now making to exclude them from our shores they regard as efforts for the perpetuity of our republican institutions. The cry of the "C W1. I must go" comes not from a rebellious faction or lawless people disposed to coerce the action of the Government or to hinder the administration of just laws. but must be regarded as the expression of a determined and quiet resolve of a Christian community not to be supplanted by a heathen and pagan race. Once restrict the immigration and those now here will within a few years be gone. and that voluntarily. for none remain more than a few years among us. Much of the opposition to this kind of legislation is founded in the sentiment that this Government is the9 asylum for the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations." It is true that our fathers ordained this Republic a " city of refuge to our brethren escaping from the tyranny and oppression of the absolute monarchies of the Old World. but nore especially was it dedicated to the persecuted and humble Christian brotherhood. that they might here find a restingplace secure from persecutions. where they could erect their temples to the one true and living God. and worship Him according to the dictates of their own consciences. But I presume it does not enter into the belief of any sane person that it was ever the intention of our fathers that this land should ever become the possession of the heathen. or a mart in which he might gather and transfer to his own land the fruits and riches of this.