They have laws unto themselves. unwritten laws. traditions. which bind and govern them. With them the end justifies the means. and that end. however accomplished. is their migration from an overpopulated and povertystricken landwhere the struggle for life is so severe that the old. the infirm. the incurable sick. and the female infant are thrown into the gutter to starve and die. as they could not produce but would consume. where the laws permit of the parents selling their offspring into slavery. where woman is a chattel and supposed to be without a soul. where the punishment for crime includes both the death of the. offender and that of all of his relatives over 16 years of age. and by cruel and barbarous methods. where individuals are bitten to death by their fellowcraftsmen for an infringement of their ruleto that Western land where a mixture of the Caucasian race have come. assimilated. and created a free. humane. and enlightened Government and phenomenal wealth. On the western shores of this continent. in Australasia. and upon the islands of the Pacific Ocean. whose farther waters brake on the shores of the Yellow Sea. have met the tides of immigration which parted company on the plains of Asia at some prehistoric periodthe one going East. the other West. and there has commenced the struggle which shall determine which civilization shall predominatethe simple or the complex? And the action taken by us today may. and probably will. influence the destiny of a nation for good or evil. The question now is. shall we exclude this people?
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The speaker describes the culture of the immigrants' homeland as one where the old, infirm, and female infants are left to die, offspring are sold into slavery, women are treated as chattel, and punishments for crime are cruel and barbarous.