Speech #470041047

I do not treat his Scripture quotation in any light sense. but I call the gentleman to task for making special leas in this direction and attempting to sustain them by scriptural quotations. The gentleman also. referring eloquently to races. mentioned the colored race. and stated that if the political status of the colored race at the South has been established no man would dare say so. that it is rather an ntried experiment. So he rims the parallel between these races. the negro and Mongolian. and his parallel is correct in more respects than one. The negro has been for long years kept in bondage and denied the rights of citizenship. Of course it is not to be expected that the members of this race will spring at once into the front rank of civilization after this long period. during which they were crowded down with the brand of servitude upon them. Neither is it expected that these Mongolians. having drifted along for a period of many thousands of years in one channel. can spring at once from the peculiarities that have so long environed them and take a front rank in our AngloSaxon civilization. But why shall we continue to keep them down by unfriendly legislation? I am as much opposed to the introduction of China as China into this country as any ma on this floor. but when men from Eastern Asia come here with the avowed intention of becoming part and parcel of us.