They have heard the story of our wonderland. In imagination they have viewed our exhaustless mines of gold and silier. our grand mountains. our broad and fertile valleys. our waving fields of golden grain. our vineclad hills. our fruitful valleys. and they long to come to our sunny shores and dwell in that lnd of fruits and flowers. But. ah they have learned too truly that this most fruitful spot of this grand continent is occupied by the leprous Mongolian. who has taken possession of the field of labor in which the largest part of every country must engage. and they turn from us to other places. unwilling that their posterity shall be brought to the unequal struggle that grows out of the radical difference between the oriental and occidental civilization. I assert. sir. we have every reason to believe that had it not been for the Chinese in California. today. instead of less than nine hundred thousand population we wonld have had two million. Oregon would have double her present numbers. and the entire Pacific coast would have been at this time enjoying a degree of prosperity difficult now to conceivefar above anything heretofore exhibited in this landa marvel of the century. But. sir. we are properly shunned by the white laboter. he who develops the resources of our country. who dots the land all over with happy homes and families . the men who erect factories. build churches. found colleges and institutions of learning. who develop the arts and sciences. who foster commerce. in whose wake spring up towns and cities as if by magic. and who lay broad and deep with firm foundations all our national prosperity and the advanced civilization of the American conthient. The German. the Frenchman. the Irishman. the Englishman. and Scandinavian. who leave their homes and native land to cast their lots with us in this land of freedom. have also learned that the Asiatic pests are planted upon the Pacific coast. and they shun our States as they would the deadly upas. Mr. Speaker. in conclusion. being firm in the belief that the time is fast approaching in which that mawkish sentimentality that now pervades our peopfe in retard to the equality of all races and all people will be laid aside. aunT that intelligent discrimination will be exercised in the welldefined principles of homogeneity. belseving that the time will soon come when no such inefficient treaty as that recently negotiated with China will be permitted to stand. believing that the time will soon come when the great American people will see the injustice done to California and to Pacific States by fastening upon them more than a hundred thousand heathen slaves and retrace their policy. and say to China. "recall your slaves." believing. sir. that the necessity for such action will soon be made manifest. in behalf of the people of California I ask for the passage of this bill.
Identified stereotypes
Chinese immigrants are a 'leprous Mongolian' presence that prevents white laborers from settling and developing the country.