Speech #470037386

No. Mr. Speaker. this bill not only violates the provision of the treaty in absolutely prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers into this country for twenty years. and then reserving the right innediately on the expiration of these twenty years to add another term inlefinitely as we please. but it violates tho other provision by which those who are permitted to come and reside here. because they are here now or because they are travelers or students. or those who come hcre as a matter of curiosity. have imposed upon them these onerous and circumstantial details of registration and certification. I an opposed to tl is bill. not only because it is opposed to the commercial interests of the country. not only because it is opposed to the 1940 treaty provisions between this country and China. but because it is opposed to the traditions of the country. to those great principles of equity and right upon which it is founded. We wrote over the very gateway to our national career the words. "that allmen are created equal." and I do not see with the gentleman from Indiana any reason at the end of our lirst hundred years to erase that legend and write over it another.