But. Mr. Speaker. the importation of Chinamen. as carried on for many years. is not immigration. Immigration must be voluntary. These Chinese laborers come here almost exclusively under a coutract. They are imported for the sole purpose of underbidding our American workmen. they come here for no other but mercenary realsons. their presencein this country does not elevate even themselvesis conducive to the degration of American labor. their habits of life. which they never change. enable them to live on wages where our workmen would starve. their presence is demoralizing in more than one sense. they do not want to become citizens of this country. which they dislike. they will not even allow their bones to be buried here. Mr. Speaker. were my own German countrymen to come here with such intentions. with such ideas. with such motives. under such circumstances. for such purposes as these Mongolians do. I would vote to exclude them from this country. While I would be glad to have the pending bill amended. while I would vote to strike out the sixteenth section. while I would like to limit the time to ten years.
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