Whenever in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States. or their residence therein. affects That Government of China is the government with which we have or threatens to affect time interests of that country. or to endanger the good orderof to deal. After Confucius. who made a prediction that a new and a the said country or of anylocalitywithinto territorythereofthe Government of better religion would come after him into Chinam. and would come from Chins agrees Ciat the Glvormnment of the United States may regulate. limt. or sthe West. after his period there was introduced into China from pendsuch comiagorresidence. butmynotabsolutelyprohibitit. The limitation Ihrsusponsion shall boresonable and shall apply onlyto Chinese who may gate the atited States as laborers. ether classes nt being included in the limitations. population. and which has fallen in successive generations so low tegislatiom Cake in regard to Chinese laboerswil] be of each acharacter onlvas is necessary to enferce the remlatin. limitation. or suspension of immigration. that it has become base material idolatry. In its origin it was aind imgr..nt sh.l no b I su|et c .I..a ~rameo a bue spiritual. highly moral in tone and character. but has degenerated into the wretched idolatrous exercises of which we hear and read I claim that the billas it stands instead of being true to its title today. is substantially a bill to abrogate in important respects the treaty to While I am on this subject may I. without wearying the House. which itrefers. as known tobe understood by the commissionerswho add one other note from the historygiven us by the old documents? negotiated it on the part of the Chinese. It was said by Confucius that later there should come further light I certaiily maintain. though I shall not attempt to make it formand more truth. and that it should come from the Westthat was ally. that a point of order would lie against the bill for radical about five hundred years before the birth of our Saviourand the defect in title. When the Chinese commissioners refused. as they history of China shows that the government sent out commissionsin did. to treat with our own on the basis of prohibition of immigration the course of later generations to inquire of the new religions of of their laborers. including skilled laborers to the United States. it which they had heard. One of these reported of Buddhism. You is not in the least degree probable. not even supposable. that they read in your New Testament that at the birth of Christ "three wise would have consented to negotiate upon a proposition to prohibit nen came from the East" in search of a newborn King. There is such imumigration for twenty years. more reason to believe that these wise men caiie from this much Twenty years covers the whole emigrating period of a mans life. -bused empire than from any other people. came in search of this To interdict a man for twenty years in such an interest as this is to new light and new truth which their great philosopher and teacher. interdict him absolutely. To prohibit for twenty years on a subject Confucius. had predicted. and of which they were in search during such as is now before us is to prohibit absolutely one entire generas cessive generations. as shown by their books of history. tion of men. Twenty years is a long term of years in human affairs.
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