Speech #470036857

I should state here that on taking them back to China I found a greater proportion then than that. It was very rare to find a Chinaman thirty years of age retn*nig to China but what had the smallpox. whether before he came or after e wras here. but it exists among them all the time. Governor Low. at page 74. says: I think that the wellbeing of the whole coastwonld bepromoted bylimiting it. (Chinese immigration.) I think on the broad principle. as I stated. that it is undesirable to have an unlimited quantity of an alien people who cannot assimilate. who cannot with safety to ourselves be allowed to become citizens in a republican form of government. But it does not stop there. Ninetynine out of every hundred of them have the smallpox. and that is testified to by those who are well qualified to give information upon the subject. It has been testified that from the time the first ship arrived on the Pacific coast with coolies up to the present day these people have never been free from that loathsome disease. Now here is the coolys idea of America in his own home. and some time it is well to know just what people think of us. This is the idea that the cooly brings with him here of our nation. as testified to by these witnesses.