He who denies to his Government the right to say who shall land upon its shores denies the prerogative that is necessary to the existence. to the supremacy. to the welfare of a nation. and the nation is not worth preserving that does not exercise that right whenever the interest of its people demands its exercise. Mr. President. it is not a question of sentiment. it is a practical question. it is a question whether the American laborer is to be put in competition with the four hundred and fifty millions of people on the Asiatic coast that can be landed on our shores for $10 per head. The honorable Senator from Kansas and the honorable Senator from Massachusetts are in favor. they tell us. of protecting American labor by means of revenue laws against the pauperized labor of Europe. but they deny our right to protect the American citizen and the American laborer against what is the more than pauperized laborof Asia. They deny the right to protect our laborers against a people who can come here and subsist on starvation wages.
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Asians are described as a mass of people who can subsist on starvation wages.