All this to offset the salvation of a few score of souls of beings whose miserable lives and souls ought not in the aggregate to bear a feathers weight against the deep damnation of the curse they have inflicted upon our race. and the ruin and everlasting misery they have brought upon thousands--if the Christian religion be "the true faith" by which human souls are to he saved. In San Francisco over 35.000 Chinese are huddled together in the space of twelve blocks of that city. occupying what was once the fairest and best portion of it. and in all that great population there are less than sixty families living as such with legitimate children. Three thousand of these Mongolians are employed in various manufactures within the Chinese quarters. and many more thousands outside of it. supplanting white labor in almost every industry. As a race they have no regard for this country or its laws. They defy its authority. have a system of government of their own.and resist the payment of taxes whenever they can do so. paying in San Francisco only about one threethousandths part of the tax. and for the State at large less than one fourhundredths part of the revenue required to support the Government. The cost of keeping Mongolian prisoners in the State prison is more than double the whole amount of the property tax collected from the Chinese population of the State. As has been most fittingly defined. the Chinese population of this country is like a huge sponge. which absorbs all it can in America and is then squeezed out in China. The record of the Republicans. including my colleagues of that party in this House. on the subject of the pending treaty of exclusion and legislation to enforce it. has certainly been an anomalous one.
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Chinese immigrants are described as having miserable lives, inflicting a curse on the American race, defying American authority, avoiding taxes, and being like a sponge that absorbs but does not contribute.