We are not afraid of these incoming elements. and I insist. sir. that we are more intensely republican today than we have ever been in the history of the nation. American republicanism has gained strength year by year. and at this very hour we are able to receive into our embraces as a nation whatsoever may come to us. I clearly admit that those men who come to us from Asia do not come to us as the other elements have come. and also admit all that may be said in this direction. yet I do not thinkthat a great nation of fifty millions. with institutions broad and generous and liberal. meeting the aspirations of every human breast. need be particularly alarmed about the incoming of a hundred thousand Mongolians. I hardly agree with my colleague who spoke yesterday. He spoke with force. with eloquence. and with good logic. yet I hardly agree with him in his conclusions that American labor is just now put in peril by the immigration from Asia. When this peril shall impend the laboring men of the country. then we will seek a treaty under which we can honorably suspend. fully and forever. But I rose to speak more in reference to the treaty which we have with China.
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