I am not prepared to vote for a law which accomplishes no beneficial purpose. If the laws excluding the Chinese are not sufficiently severe. if they are not sufficiently comprehensive. if there are loopholes and gaps in those laws by which evasions are made on the part of the Chinese. let amendments be proposed to those laws. and I shall vote for those amendments. as will every Democratic Senator in this Chamber. as we have done in the past. We have been the advocates of Chinese exclusion. It was during the administration of Mr. Cleveland that the most exclusive of all Chinese exclusion acts was passed. We stand on that platform today. You have a race prejudice against these Chinese.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing that there is a race prejudice against the Chinese.