The perils are too great. All questions of reform in the Government. all measures. all policies. all politics in fact. are merged in this one single issue of intelligence and property on one side insisting on supremacy with ignorance on the other. distrustful and incompetent. Considerations of public .policy induced Congress. in order to prevent the aggravation of the conditions unfavorable to constitutional liberty. to prohibit the immigration of the Mongolian race. the Chinese. into this country. and to deny to them any participation in the rights and privileges of American citizenship. And yet some of the earliest discoveries in science. and expressions of the highest morality. owe their origin to this race which in their own land have achieved the highest civilization to be found outside the limits of Christianity. I must confess that my experience has led me to look more and more to practical measures for the improvement and elevation of the people. the source of power. rather than to statutes and constitutions that become lifeless forms unless constantly invigorated by the virtues and intelligence of those upon whom they are intended to operate.
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The paragraph generalizes about the 'Mongolian race' and their intelligence and competence.