Christianity will enroll them among her supporters and use them to extend and strengthen her kingdom. As a nation we have always been taught. and have acted upon the theory. that error is never dangerous when truth and reason are left free to combat it. I am therefore not alarmed for our civilization. and under humane and reasonable provisions of law and proper municipal regulations limiting and restraining. when necessary. the immigration of foreigners to our shores. I have no fears that our laborers will suffer in consequence of being brought into competition with them either in California or anywhere else. Will any man contend for a moment that American laborers have been degraded or their condition made worse by the immense immigration which has been poured in upon our shores for the past fifty years from every nation on the globe? Why. sir. "while the emigrant has bettered his own condition" and increased his happiness by coming among us. lie has increased the wages of the American workman by his presence. and "has raised to a higher grade of social life and wealth the American laborer whose place he has taken." While I do not claim that a large influx of Chinese would be either desirable or profitable. yet I have no present fears regarding them. and cannot consent to join in this line and cry. got up by interested and prejudiced persons. many of them no better than the Chinese. who would resort to any measure however wicked. unjust. and cruel to get rid of them. I do not claim that they are paragons of virtue and morality. or deny that they are. to some extent. afflicted with the failings and vices of the rest of mankind. yet I do claim that they are an industrious race. that they are economical. that they never beg. seldom g et drunk. are never lazy. and if we are to credit those who have lived among them and ought to know. they are quiet. peaceable. lawabiding. faithful to trusts. and are rarely. if ever. found in a court of justice either as a party in a civil suit or as respondent in a criminal prosecution. These commendable things. if true. should certainly be set down to their credit in the terrible reckoning you propose by this bill now to have with them.
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Generalizes that Chinese are industrious, economical, never beg, seldom get drunk, are never lazy, quiet, peaceable, law-abiding, faithful to trusts, and rarely found in court.