And when the gentleman from Virginia speaks of members on this side of the Hall fixing the limit in an arbitrary manner. I desire to answer that this bill also fixes the limit in an arbitrary manner. and why may we not. after due consideration. reasotiably reduce the period which the bill indicates as proper ? The most to be apprehended from the radical change proposed by this so.etion of the bill is. that should it become a law it may raise the clamnor that. having prohibited for so long a time the inimigration of cheap laborers the sane rule in principle should be applied to all laborers proposing to immigrate to our country. It is answered by the friends of the bill. who do not favor modification in this respect. thi. these people will not. and from the very nature of things cannot. understand. enter into. or become interested in our political organization any more than in our social. that they will not permit themselves to become absorbed into and become a part of the bodypolitic. and this may be trueunder existing laws. And why? It is because they vire denied the right to become citizens. and not being such can have no interest in our governmental system. Treaty stipulations are opposed to their naturalization. And in the proposed enactments of this bill for the enforcement of such extreme stipulations it is sought to be made more binding and effective for their exclusion from all rights of citizenship. This brings us to the examination of the second chief objection to this bill. too wit. the absolute prohibition of all Chinese from becoming citizens of the Republic.
Identified stereotypes
Chinese immigrants will not assimilate into American society and cannot understand the political system.