I also recommend that timely provision be made for extending to Hawaii an invitation to be represented in the International Conference now sitting at this capital. Our relations with China have the attentive consideration which their magnitude and interest demand. The failure of the treaty negotiated under the administration of my predecessor for the further and more complete restriction of Chinese labor immigration. and. with it. the legislation of the last session of Congress dependent thereon. leave some questions open which Congress should now approach in that wise and just spirit which should characterize the relations of two great and friendly powers. While our supreme interests demand the exclusion of a laboring element which experience has shown to be incompatible with our social life. all steis to compass this imperative need should be accompanied with a recognition of the claim of those strangers now lawfully among us to humane and just treatment. The accession of the young Emperor of China marks. we may hope. an era of progress and prosperity for the great country over which he is called to rule.
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Chinese laborers are incompatible with American social life.