This proposed legislation is expressly sanctioned by the article of the treaty already reforred to. The population of the Chinese Empire. according to the most reliable authorities. exceeds four hundred millions. The Pacific States. for thirty years. have been receiving immiiigrants from this overflowing Asiatic hive. It is true that the census of 1880 shows that less than 200.000 of these immigrants now remain in the United States. and the nmnber now entering our ports do uot exceed 3.000 a mouth. These figures are not very startling or alarmtug. but when we take into consideration the fact of the immense and overfloNwing population of China. and the further fact that the entire cost of bringing a Chinese laborer from Shanghai to San Francisco does not exceed $12. we must. I think. admit that China can. if no restriction be placed upon the immigration of her laborers hither. pour countless thousands of them into the ports of California and Oregon. When recently in San Francisco. I was informed by Colonel Bee. the Chinese consnlgencral. that all the Chinese who have immigrated to the United States were inhabitants of one province. which province is not larger in extent than the State of New Hampshire. The Chinese as a people are doubtless shrewd. calculating. and fairseeing. The great mass of Chinese laborers in their native country are poor. and do not dwell in physical comfort.
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The Chinese as a people are doubtless shrewd, calculating, and fairseeing.