It amst be done by authority of the State and the execution of the laws in every community of the State. If the people of any State want them. why not allow them to have them. and if they do not want them. 8o legislate as to allow them to exclude them? In the absence of either treaties or naturalization laws they would be subject to the laws of the States excluding them. I am indifferent as to the passage of this resolution because it does not affect the people of Florida. but I wish to make my protest against the theory upon which it is based. which declares that a great part of the human race. five hundred millions of people of Asiatic origin. were improperly created. and are not capable of civilization. and can not contribute anything to ours. and against the other declaration of this resolution that intercourse between all nations of the world is a bad thing amd ought to be prohibited. that we shall build a Chinese wall around this countrywhile excluding the Chinese. adopt their policyand separate ourselves from all others. If it be true in part. it is true in whole. If there be so large a portion of the people of this globe as the whole Asiatic portion of the world that. because of their origin. and because of their locality. and because of habits that are peculiar to them. are incapable of elevation. incapable of civilization. unfit for contact with us. then the other doctrine is true that we should build this wall around oun61ves and makethe hemisphere divisibleinto two parts. one of which shall be full of barbarism and darkness. and the other of our civilization rnd progress. I do not accept the theories on which this resolution is based.
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Asians are incapable of civilization and cannot contribute anything to ours.