President. I reaffirm for myself. and for the people whom I immediately represent. every syllable of that eloquent declaration. I am willing to join my friends from the Pacific coast in regp.4lating immigration so as to extirpate. root and branch. every form of cooly labor. I am willing to plant at the outer gateways of this Asiatic nation vigilant and competent consular agents. without whose certificate no man shall come to our shores whose labor is not his own property. who does not come with his family. if he has a family. who does not come under the fair promise that he is likely to take upon himself in good faith the responsibilities. the duties. and the opportunities of American citizenship. Not an evil has been suggested in the petition and complaints that have come from the Pacific coast against which I will not join with its representatives in striking a hard and fatal blow. But Twill not strike at an honest. industrious. temperate Christian laborer because I am afraid that his labor is more skillful than mine or than the labor of the men of my race.
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