We ask for this legislation also because it is in accordance with the terms of a stipulation ha the recent treaty with the Government of China. The Government of the United States. as has been properly said by the Senator from Massachusetts and others. has guaranteed to every State in the Union a republican form of government. and in order to protect the citizens of these States the strong arm of the General Government must be extended there to establish and carry out that right. If the immigration of Chinese to the Pacific coast in the numbers tey have been coming for the last few years shall continue. those States will come to be anything else than republican forms of government. The strong arm of the law of the State. its constitution. cannot protect us. and hence we appeal to the right that Congress has under the present treaty between the two countries. Men and women who depend upon their everyday labor for a living to support their families. to provide a comfortable home or a place t sleep and something to eat. cannot afford and will not submit to the innovation upon their rights by this class of people.
Identified stereotypes
Chinese immigrants are portrayed as a threat to the republican form of government and to the economic well-being of American laborers.