Speech #470041105

It is a policy of excluding labor that you announce to the world. There are skilled and unskilled laborers in Europe as well as China. There are skilled and unskilled laborers in Asiatic Russia. and the line that divides them from China is but a shadow. Dare you fence them off in your policy of protecting labor? Gentlemen are safer in holding on to first principles and seeking some solution of this perplexing problem that does not involve their betrayal. They may find themselves straying into Democratic pastures where the prejudices of race against race. class against class. laborer against laborer. are played upon as pieces upon the political chessboard. The Republican party has no life or hope in any such policies. but it can have strength only in holding fast to and forever defending the principles of equal rights and equal justice and universal freedons that it was created to defend. I do not believe that American civilization and progress are yet in danger of being obstructed or retarded iu their onward flow. but I believe the pure and mighty stream will absorb and wash away all foulness from such admixtures as are likely to come from the stagnant pool of Asiatic civilization. The problem to be solved is a specific relief for a specific evil. There is no impending conflict between the Mongolian and Caucasian races. If there is. God pity the Mongolians. for their days arc nuasbered on the face of the earth. The mighty and organized power of Caucasian civilization will soon sweep them and destroy the effete and powerless Mongolian. The evil is the importation of servile laborers. of diseased and lewd persons. criinals. and paupers. I will vote for any measure that is directed to the correction of the evil. But no necessity to use the words of my eloquent colleague is upon me to vote to exclude the laborers. skilled and unskilled. of onethird of the human race. to vote to forbid the naturalization of any citizen of China. to vote to place this nation subject to the charge of punic faith in treaty obligation. to vote to revive a relic of slavery by establishing a system of passports and registration in this land of freedom. and. worst of all. to vote to fan the fierce flame of prejudice against a race of human beings. created by the same God as we are. endowed with emotions. capabilities of feelings of suffering or of joy. and. as I believe. endowed with capabilities of education. civilization. progress. and Christiauization.