There are many other features of this law. there are many other results of this law. of deep and great interest. but I have said enough to satisfy me that I should be wrong. in the face of the facts proven to exist. and in full hearing of that cry of distress from that section of the country. if I did not feel authorized by the very spirit of comity and byithis treaty. deliberately and voluntarily made and solemnized between these two nations. to apply a remedy and apply it at once and for a practical period. not ten years short and unstable. Here perhaps I may as well present for insertion in the REcoRD the "appeal" to which I have alluded. "An appeal to tihe working men and women of the United States. "The representative assembly of trades and labor unions of the Pacific coast. having appointed a committee some three months ago to collect statistics on the Chinese coolylabor question. now present the result of its investigations as contained therein. . "The time has come when decisive action must be taken to stop Chinese Im. migration. A bill will be introduced in the United States Senate in December by Senator Miller. of California. totally prohibiting Chinese immigration into the United States. and the other California Representatives have promised to support the bill for this purpose. The people of California desire the hearty cooperation of all interested in the freedom and elevation of labor throughout the United States to agitate this question by public demonstration at the time the bill is introduced in the Senate. and thus bring the pressure of public opinidn to bear upon Congress. in order to show that the people are alive to the im portance and gravity of the situation. "The experience of thirty years of Chinese cooly competition with free white labor on the Pacific coast entitles us to speak with every degree of authority as to its pernicious and degrading effects. This competition is inevitably destructive. and will be certain to force the labring American down in habits and expecses of life to the level of the hallbarbarian.
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Chinese competition will force the laboring American down to the level of the half-barbarian.