Mr. Speaker. it is not my desire to take up unnecessary time in discussinga measure that Tam sure. when it comes to a vote. will pass this House with scarcely a dissenting voice. But the matter under consideration is of such vital importance. not only to the people of the Pacific coast. whom in part I have the honor to represent. but to the people of all the States of this Union when they come to understand it as we do in California. that I am constrained at least to voice the sentiment of my constituency in assuring the members of this Congress and the people they represent that. notwithstanding what may have been in the past. there is now but one side to the issue of Chinese immigration in California. It has been my province to see with my own eyes for thirty years the formation of the hideous Mongolian incubus upon that fair State. which has robbed it of much of its natural growth and prosperity. No tongue can convey or pen portray the ugliness of the monster. Personal inspection alone will convey anything like an adequate idea of the moral degradation of Chinese laborers wherever they are herded together in any considerable numbers in this or any other country.
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The speaker refers to Chinese immigrants as a 'hideous Mongolian incubus' that robs the state of growth and prosperity and describes their moral degradation.