President. I have voted. I believe. for every bill for the restriction of Chinese immigration that has been passed during the ten years I have been in Congress. but I do not wish to disguise to the country nor pretend to disguise to myself the belief that the considerations upon which this public policy has been urged are without any foundation whatever. I have not deceived myself with the allegation that these people should be excluded because they do not assimilate with the people of the United States. that they do not intermix or intermarry with them. when there are twelve millions of people in this country as diverse from the white American people as any two races within the whole range of creation. Why. then. should this great deliberative body put its support of a measure of this character upon such a baseless and manifestly untrue foundation? Is there not as great diversity between the colored man. the African. and the white man. as there is between the Mongolian. the yellow man. and the white man? Yet. the African makes a reasonably good citizen. and performs a useful part in the public economy of the country. Why. then. shall you seek to justify this legislation with reasons which are in. defiance of your own constitutional amendment that every person born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction shall be a citizen?
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Generalizing that Chinese do not assimilate with the people of the United States and do not intermix or intermarry with them.