Th governmetit ofagrcatnation cttntot afftird. dersyrpatheti lipset frti sister communities. iaspired only by these ignoble arguments. to enact rigorous. stringent. and cruel laws permanently affecting a great nation of people. I believe it to be the duty of a wise legislator to aidt in creating. fostering. and directing a libral. comprohensive. and patriotic public sentiment aumong the people of hll4 country. rather than to follow in a blind and submissive way the unreasoning and often bitter prejudices and passions. engendered through ignorant and superstitious. though wellintentioned. nasses of unlettered populations. Great stress is laid by some of the advocates of this bill upon the thct that poverty and prostitution are the characteristics of many of the Chinese immigrants. and there is a degree of force in the argument. But why not apply it to the many European immigrants also i There are certainly very large numbers of that class possessing the same peculiarities. and that they do not apply it is of itself alone one of the most eloquent arguments to prove the existence of the jassioi and prejudice to which we ascribe the chief opposition to these people. Dut these vices are not peculiar to either Asiatic or European immigrants. They and similar vices deplorably exist in many of our large cities among our own native population. Let any curious inquirer take a horsecar on any day in the year and pass along the great thoroughfare frum the Fifth Avenue Hotel to the Astor House in New York City. and unless he deliberately shuts his eyes he will discover in many places along that route umistacable evidences of shameless prostitution flaunting its brazen ensigns from many an open window.
Identified stereotypes
Poverty and prostitution are characteristics of many Chinese immigrants.