I say that their developments in all these respects are not and cannot be congenial. There is no common ground of assimilation. If that be so. is it not within the competence of the United States. as it has been within the competence of the Chinese Empire itself and is to this day largely. to say. in every spirit of friendship and goodwill. it is not wise at present that this immigration should further proceed until we have time to test what now. at the best. seems so very doubtful. whether the immigrants already here are capable of assimilating in political form. in social development. and social communion with the people of the United States. or. to state it the other way. (which is the same proposition.) whether we are capable of entering into such an assimilation as to make a homogeneous republic in the State of California. in the State of Oregon. and in the State of Nevada. and wherever else over this great Republic of ours these people may come. for I do not need to call the attention of Senators to that fundamental principle of domestic government. that in order to success. that just success which produces happiness to its people. no republic can succeed that has not a homogeneous population. That was what was for so long a time the curse of our Southern sister States. It was the want of homogeneity that they thought was mitigated and helped out by the fact that the different races occupied different positions. one dominant. the other servile.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about the lack of common ground of assimilation between Chinese immigrants and the people of the United States.