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Mr. President. before closing I want to refer to one other matter referred to by my friend from Minnesota . My friend. genial. able. erudite as he is. losing sight evidently for the moment of the great evils. the great dangers Apinr 26. to this country likely to result from continued Chinese immigration. forgetting for the moment the lesson which history teaches us as to what the pagan Chinese did over five hundred years ago. when. under the great Tamerlane. by the mere force of overpowering numbers. they subdued principalities and peoples along the Tigris. the Euphrates. th6 Volga. the Ganges. and the Nilelooking away beyond all this. my friend from Minnesota imagines he sees a more ominous. a more portentous cloud of danger to our institutions in another form and in another direction. and in comparison. he loses sight evidently for the time being of the dangers and the demoralizations of Chinese immigration to this country. and comparing Cahensly as representing the one theory and Confucius as representing the other. he gives the palm to Confucius and crowns him with eulogy. My friend is apprehensive that a movement set on foot last year. I believe. by a comparatively obscure member of the Prussian Diet. and which movement. as very properly and very truthfully stated by the Senator from Minnesota. was on its first presentation denounced by His Holiness Leo XIII. in the Vatican. and reprobated by Cardinal Gibbon and Archbishop Ireland in this country. will result in the disintegration of American civilization. and in the establishment in this country of as many different nations as there are people and as there are tongues. I tell my friend from Minnesota what has been done once may be done again. If those vast hordes of Chinese pagans..led on by the great Mongolian leader. Tamerlane. over five centuries ago. could. not by military prowess. but by the mere force of overpowering numbers. make a track of desolation through Russia and Turkey and Egypt and India which required for centuries the energies of all those nations to obliterate. they may do it again. What pagan China has done in Europe. it is possible. for her to do in America.