I stll not concede rights that I do not concede to peoptle from other parts of the world. And. so believing. I believe it is timne to ieet this question today. whether you are to put the four hundred millions of Asiatics who can come here (and who cannot only dhive out your labor. but who can degrade it) on a par with the America citizen or not. I am not afraid to put myself upon the broad grond that. independent of the wants of California. independent of the wants of her Senators. I am prepared to record my vote in fivor of the protection of American labor. not simply by protecting it in otr manufactures. bit to prevent it from beitgbroiught in contact with a labor that must necessarily degrade it whenever it comes in contact with it. Mr. President. believing asI believe. I am prepared to vote for this bill. and I vote for it with no excuse. 1 vote for it with pleasure. not speaking now of its details but of the principle. because I see no other way to protect American labor in this country. not onlyagainst Chinese but any other class of people who may come to this country lacking the qualifications that I think the immigration should have. I would be willing to legislate against and to restrict. Suppose that front some of the populous regions of Africa thousands and hundreds of thousands of those people shold attempt to come to this country.
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Asiatics are portrayed as degrading labor and driving out American workers.