Circumstancesand it is not necessary in this conncetion to give the reasons whyforced into citizenship the colored race. But they were born here among our own people. they were within our limit. they were under the control of our laws and they had to be provided for. But the Mongolian race are not of our household. they are not of our people. nor is there any thing in the Cosstitution which would demand or require us to provide for them by opening out and extending the benefits of this Government to that class of people. It was never so designed. it was never so intended. Every word which is referred to by Jefferson and by all the other great lights in respect to inviting the oppressed of foreign nations to this country referred. and referred alone to the Caucasian raceto white pcopleo. to those who could come here and become assimilatet with our people and amalgamated with them. and become "bote of our bote and flesh of our flesh." and their posterity would be ptre and untixed Caueasian. the same as those who made the Constitutioun. That. its my judgment. is the meaning of it. clearly. unmistakably the meaning of the Constitution. Mr. President. the Mongolian race has a civilization wholly and essentially distinct. Is it the enlightened and intelligent of that people who come here and settle in our midst? No. sir. of all the 450.000.000 people of China it is the lower strata. the very dregs of that population that are spewed out upon the Pacific slope. to move amnong our people but not be of them.
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The speaker claims that only the "lower strata" and "very dregs" of the Chinese population are immigrating to the US, and that they cannot be assimilated.