I move to amend the paragraph just read by striking from the eighteenth line the words " from any foreign port or place" after the words "it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborers to come." I do not propose to discuss that amendment. but simply avail myself -of this opportunity to respond to an imputation made by my distin.guished colleague that in the remarks which I delivered to the Committee of the Whole a short time since I attempted to institute a comparison or to draw some kind of a parallel between the Mongolian and other races. I did no such thing. I believe in the superiority of the white race and always did. But that has never seemed to me to be a reason why I should deny to the blackest mannin Africa or the yellowest man in Asia the common rights of human nature. I have .always believed that every man had the right of an even start and a fair chance in the race of life. and that equality meant simply this. that every man had the right to be the equal of every other man if he -could be. What I said in regard to immigrants who landed at Castle Garden was this. that the objection made to the Mongolian was that he was a -competitor with American laborers in the labor market. I said that was the objection made to the Mongolian. I say that every man and woman. every working man and woman who arrives at Castle Garden from the old countries of the world put their labor into competition with American labor. that is all. I welcome laborers from Germany .and Ireland and Scandinavia and everywhere.
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