Iwant to go slowly. What is the evil to be guarded against? The people of California and the Pacific coast say that they are fearful of being inundated by a vast horde of hungry coolies or contract laborerst call them cooliesIgnorant. vicious. debased. who come here without wives and children. who come here to degrade our society. an immigration of the lowest and worst classes of the oldest nation of Asia. It seems to me we might guard against the evils of this dangerous immigration without going to the extreme of excluding all laborers from China. We may limit. restrain. suspend. but we must not prohibit immigration. Here isaprohibitinn for twenty years. longer than the life of any Senator on this floor. for in twenty years time all of us will have disappeared from the stage in all human probability. Now.
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Chinese immigrants are described as a vast horde of hungry, ignorant, vicious, and debased coolies who degrade society.