In other words. can we digest it and have it ecome a part of our system and bodypolitic. and will it. like healthy blood. build up our national bone and sinew. or will it poison and canker all its surroundings? Too great care in the accretion of this foreign population cannot be taken. It would be well to state here that many of our eastern people have formed favorable but false or erroneous opinions of the class hereafter to be excluded. derived from articles in books and papers referring to a different and better class of Chinese. an upper caste in China. and differing from the lower caste. the servile coolies who are imported here. Some of the better class are on our coast. and both the treaty with China. and. consequently. the bill before us. allow them to come and to go as they please. The bill does not molest them. neither does it nor can it. under that treaty. interfere with the hordes of the lower classes already here under the Fanction of our treaties and laws. All that it provides for. and all it can provide for. is that a restriction shall be placed upon the further importation of cooly laborers. I say importation. for it is a sad mistake to call it immigration. It has none of the essential characteristics of other immigration to our shores. In the first place. pure. gennino immigration is never eastward. always westward. No instance otherwise exists. to my knowledge. in the worlds history. The great tide of hmigration has been. and is now. westward around the world.
Identified stereotypes
The speaker generalizes about the 'lower class' of Chinese, contrasting them with a 'better class'.