Speech #470036843

I have read this extract for the purpose of making the observation that in a comtry like ours. broad in territory and having all climates within it territorial limits. a person who will not respond to the necessities of the people in any part of the country is not broad enough to legislate for the Republic. If there is a condition of things applying peculiarly to any part of the country which demands at the hands if Congress serious consideration and legislation. no sentiment. however plausible. should stand in the way of doing justice to that conmunity. It is a wellknown fact that all classes of citizens in aliforniawith the rarest exceptionsmen of all shades of political opinion. all denominations of Christians demand at the hands Of Congress some legislation restricting this immigration. There is. no adverse sentiment on that coast upon this subject. There may be here and there an exceptional case. but I am speaking of the greet sentiment of the people.