Is this legislation a new departure in the experience of our own or of other lands? I deny it. I say that the American Congress and the people of the United States are only following now in the path that has already been trodden" by France. by England. and by every country in the world thathas ever suffered the disadvantages. the horrors. and the burdens of Chinese immigration. As tr back as 1855 the English colony of Victoria levied a capitation tax of $50 upon every Chinese immigrant. In 1861 a similar tax was inposed by the colony of New South Wales. and in 1877 by the colony of Queensland. and also by the French colony of Saigon. The same opposition has been aroused in Java. in Siam. in Singapore. in the Philippine Islands. and in the Australian colonies.
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