The main idea of the bill is to prevent such people from landing there. and you bring in a bill asking an annual expenditure of $250.000. which you say New York has had to pay out of its own pocket. to reiiburse you. But when California comes here and says this "home of the downtrodden and oppressed of all nations" is being overrun by the Chinese to whom you deny the right of citizenship and naturalization. and tells you that three of our fairest States on the Pacific coast are being flooded from this cesspool of corruption. and asks you to interpose your objection to it. and pass a law to limit the number of immigrants from that country. inthe future. to a certain number. you regard it as a crime against our traditions and have no remedy you are willing to apply. If it is a crime to ask for this. how much more criminal for you to prohibit a man from landing at New York or Boston because be happens to be poor. And I see my friend from Massachusetts before me. who also will not vote for this amendment because this is the "asylum of the downtrodden and the oppressed ." and I have no doubt my friend will nevertheless give the bill his support. although it is obnoxious to the objections which I have just specified.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization of Chinese immigrants as coming from a 'cesspool of corruption'.