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Thatan intelligent people was necessary to perpetuate a government "of the pee plIc" and rule by public opinion. That to become intelligent botime and means were required for education. that to procure these the laborer must be protected and a more general diffusion of wealth among the masses must be provided. and that by the only possible method. viz. an increase in their wages and the reduction of the hours of labor. now made possible by "natural power. engendered and put forth by material objects." the elements being the motive power directed by the hand of labor. the result a multiplication of production and wealth many fold. That for the creation of wealth the law of supply and demand must operate conjointly. consumption being necessary for production. and that to consume labor must b3 employed. and. as an economic writer puts it. " to enlarge the social opportunities of the masses." And hence. in consonance with this newand practical economic sentiment. we have legislated against the importation of the products of cheap labor. we have passed laws against the incoming of the lowprice and contract labor of Europe. of paupers. convicts. insane. and vagabonds. and to prevent the influx of the most immoral and the cheapest of all labor. the Mongolian. But our laws are incomplete. they are defective. hence evaded. and. in consequence. do not meet the desired end. These defects more especially apply to the exclusion of the Chinese. as it is far more difficult. next to impossible. to legislate against a race that has nothing in common with us. but whose interest and sentiment are averse to ours and who have no regard for the sanctity of an oath. than against a race of our own type.