Speech #510026036

When under our system of local autonomy in each of the States. you enter with your superior wisdom and yoursunerior morality. asyon assume. you destroy all harmony. you make cooperation between diverse races utterly impossible. and then turn you around and abuse the unfortunate people whose condition you have made tenfold worse than it would have been but foryour interference. and then this state of affairs is made the occasion for renewed interference. Does the Senator from Massachusetts remember that in 1883. I believe it was. when the Chinese exclusion bill was before the Senate. learned Senators on that side of the Chamber. notably the Senator from Nevada and the Senator from Colorado . pointed out some of the difficulties in which their people were involved. when their communities were composed not only of heterogeneous races. but of antagonistic races? Does the Senator remember that the great Senator from Vermont asked him how he would like to have a million of the inhabitants of the Dark Continent settle in Massachusetts. declaring for himself that he wanted no such people in Vermont? That question the Senator from Massachusetts has never answered to this day.