I do not rise to protract this debate. I have discussed this question so often that my views are well understood and I believe they are now in harmony with those of nearly all the thinking people of the United States. There was a time when there was a great diversity of opinion on the question of Chinese immigration to this country. but I think there is practically none now. The American people are now convinced that the Chinese can not be incorporated among our citizens. can not be amalgamated. can not be absorbed. but that they will remain a distinct element. and in this country they will simply be a servile and disturbing element. interfering with our labor system. taking the labor from our people. and interfering with our whole social system. Where they are. you can not have American civilization. Churches. schools. and everything which pertains to American civilization disappear before their civilization. and when they come in sufficient numbers our race must disappear before them. That is our experience. The attention of the country has been recently called to immigration from Europe. and there is a pretty settled purpose now to exclude all foreigners who can not be incorporated into the bodypolitic. all who are criminals or paupers or diseased in any way. There is more attention now being paid to that subject than ever before. We must do it for selfpreservation and for the protection of our laboring people. The attention of the East is called to that question. and there is a pretty uniform sentiment that while the immigration from Europe of good people is still desirable. and that they can still add to our prosperity and we welcome them here. yet in that immigration we have to be more cautious and circumspect than we have been heretofore. There is a disposition on the part of many countries in Europe to unload their paupers and criminals upon us. Transportation has become so chcap that that is an easy way to get rid of undesirable classes. and we find a disposition to flood us with that element.
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Chinese people cannot be incorporated, amalgamated, or absorbed and will remain a servile and disturbing element.