Speech #470031754

IHis five thotsanlyears training to wretched on the second hne of the second section after the word "shall." I ftingalit.in competition with his five hundred million of fellowongolians has think further that on the third line not only should there be the amgits Itiit bowto live uponi the least possible amount of air and food. The conflictofthm. two races inCaliforiialias. so far. oulyoeen aqneostionofthesurviVal words " knowingly on such vessel bring within the jurisdiction of O the CHExAEST." and nota "survival ofthefittest." Cheap labor. as such. isa the United States" but the words should also be inserted " ad pereurs to tiny country--evu frmn a dollarandcent standpoint. The policy of mit to be landed." The two things I think should be necessary to tlicalp labor is a policy tending to the degradation and decivilizatien of tbe iany coistitute the offense. first that there was the intent to violate the liv teonrichment and advancement of the few. and as such we must oppose it. act ithe pernmanent prosperity of a country depends alpon the just distribution of the itri and next that the spirit of the act had been -violated by perwealth of labor among the producers of it. inittiug the landing of this class of people. because one or two might In 1877 a Congressional committee was appointed tota e evidence in California be on board a vessel secreted without the knowledge of the master from all classes of the community in order to arrive at an ictelligent estimate of as is oftentimes the case in voyages between here and Europe. and be the inlitteuce amid probable results of unrestricted Chinese immigration. After ia dh oe and u ea be pattinlly investigating the question. it their report they spoke of the Chinese as discovered after the ship had bet port. and yet it would subject the .imakiig their way by revolting cliaraetoristics and by dispensing with what captain to malicious prosecution by some one who proposed to levy wold be more necessaries in modert civilization." the late Senator Morton blackmail on hin. I have no doubt the amen(ments are reasonablo joited with time other members of the committee in declaring that "it itas b.eome and they will probably be accepted by the honorable Senator from aimftlly evident tiat the Pacific coast mmst in time either become American or ongolian. " also. that "the Chinese have advantages which will gait them far in California. advauce in the racef orpissessioam they can subsist where the American would I should also be disposed to enlarge the time. after the passage of starve. they can wr or wages shich will not fornish the barest necessaries of this act. for this class of people to come in and make it ninety days life to an American. Thle evidence taken before the California State senate committee on Chinese instead of sixty. but that is simply a question of detail. not afbecting immigration at Sacramento. in 1878. when testimony was taken from witnesscsuf the main object of the bill. but I think relieviug it from any possible mll clasescergyien.jumlges. lawyere. shipeaptains. Stateand city oficials. &i.- hardship in individual cases where from want of knsowledge of the fully sustained tme general belief of the people af California as to the disastrous law the thing may be attempted. for the penalties are very sevcro cousequences of Chinese presence in this country. involving heavy fines and long imprisonment. TIE GtEAT NUMBER.