They become honmogeneous. Theirassimilationis completed within one generation. Therefore the immigration from Europe is very desirable to the people of this country. and particularly to the Pacific coast. We have in California a larwe area of country. We have a State larger in extent than any other gtate inthis Union except the State of Texas. We not alone desire population but we have done everything we possibly could to aid European immigrants. In the city of San Francisco there is organized a labor exchange for the purpose of sending out agents to the older States and to Europe to induce emigrants to come to California. the Germans. the Irish. and all classes of the kind of people we want to settle with us. and who alone are capable of building up a great State. But with what success have they met? Why. Mr. Speaker. I have a letter. which I will print with my remarks. from the vice president of the association. in which he says that in almost every instance our agents have been met with this reply: "Wewill not emigrate to California." "Whynot? Isitnot a great State there?" "Yes. it has natural advantages over ahnost any other State in the Union. but we are laboring men. we have no capital. if we go there we go there to work with our hands as manual daylaborers. and in your State you have 100.000 adult male Chinese who are giving today their days labor on terms that are degrading. we are unequal to the competition . we shrink from it. we cannot do it. and we will not go -to a State where onesixth of the entire adult male population are Chinese." Now. Mr. Speaker. these are facts that cannot be gainsaid or denled. We want emigration. We arenot trying to exclude all classes of laborers from the United States. We desire to receive the men who leave the r homes or country to bet.er their condition.
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