Speech #470040400

Alien in manners. servile in labor. pagan in religion. they are fundamentally unAmerican. Our civilization.which is the most potent in the world in blotting out race distinctions and amalgamating nationalities. is utterly powerless to efface in a single aspect the primeval national characteristics of the Chinaman. le is literally ironclad to the geninsof our institutions. He is the same unadulterated Mongolian on the banks of the Sacramento River as he is on the Roang Ho. He is the same bigoted pagan. after twentyfive years residence nuder the spires of San Francisco. as he is among the joss houses of Canton. He isthesame unbending Asiatic. whether toiling on the Union Pacific or under the shadow of the great wall of China. His national characteristics. his physical life. his very vices. enable him to underbid and drive out white labor by unequal and injurious competition. I will not stop to specify the inequality of this competition. It is sufficient to affirm in general terms. that wherever Mongolian labor goes in sufficient iorce. there white labor inevitably succumbs. No other result is possible. In the light of these facts. I therefore assert that the Caucasians and the Mongolians cannot dwell together much longer in peace on the Pacific coast. It has been asserted that the Pacific States would in the end become all Caucasian or all Mongolian. I believe that language has been ascribed to the late Senator Morton. I doubt very much whether he ever used it. If he did. it was a most inexplicable inadvertence. The man who declares on the floor of this House or on the floor of the Senate that the race in whose veins flows the blood of Cromwell. of Hampden. of Burke of Washington. of Webster. of Lincoln will surrender the Pacific 9tates to Mongolian ascendency has studied the history of American people from a most fallacious standpoint. This question is not the question of possible Mongolian ascandency in the Pacific States. That is not the danger. It lies in another direction.