Chinam n who have a family and have a home and children. educated as many of theni ore. and we know that sim of them are educated as highly as the mot refined i our favored land. Why should they be excluded I When they wish to come here as skilled artisans antI laborers. wonderfully skilled in cerlain branches of manufacture. and contribute their labor and mingle with others. why should they not conic? Alt the rasooius against cooly immigration cease when you speak of these men. The immigrants that we want to exclude ain those men who have no wives. children. or homes. who are mere pauper laborers who are womse than pauper laborers. who are contract laborers. coolioes. a class of men who tend to degrade all labor. who can live so cheaply that no man. white or black. can compete with them. That is the mischief to be guarded against. that is the object to be sought. but now. because we have by the kindness of the Chinese GovernmentBy the magnanimity of the Chinese Government!made a treaty which onables s to limit the importation of laborers into this country we declare that all Chinese shallbe considered laborers except. forsooth. those described in the thirteenth section of the bill. If the main portion of that language should be inserted into a bill allowing the entranuce of the classes of people mentioned by the honorable Senator from 1Ohio and the classes mentioned in the memoraudism which the Chinese ininistcr sent to the President and which was mde a part of his veto message. then I say we had as well have no law at all.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing about Chinese laborers as being willing to work for less and degrade labor.