It is one of the incidents of a political campaign. A campaign does not appear to be complete without some additional Chinese legislation. We have now pending this bill. which has passed the Senate. and is it not a singular coincidence that at this same time we have also a committee of this House taking testimony in the city of New York in regard to violations of previous laws passed by Congress to prohibit the importation of contract labor. and thereby protect the workmen of this country? My object in taking the floor today is to call the attention of the country to the fact that the passing of laws by Congress will not remedy these evils until you have a public opinion that will respect and back up those laws and carry them out. Whenever you have a public opinion in California that will enforce the laws you will need but little additional legislation upon this subject.
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