It hardly will do for a great nation like the Republic of America to make a treaty with any nation and then trifle with its teruis and conditions. A nation gets nothing of honor. gets nothing of glory in the family of nations when it in the slightest degree shall trifle with its solemn stipulations. In this late negotiation the people of the United States said to China. "Enter into another treaty with us. and among other things agree that we may suspend immigration of your people into the ifaited States for a reasonable period" That is our declaration to them. Whether we went too far or otherwise is not the question. We solemnly declared to China. and at the same time we solemnly declared to all the other treatymaking nations of the world that if we did propose suspension that suspension should be reasonable.
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