There are at the outside figures from 35.000 to 40.000 less Chinese laborers in the country now than there were when that act was passed. It is a diminishing evil. and it is not necessary to violate treaties. and if we have done it. to violate them over again. to diminish and finally remove and eradicate this evil. I am willing to do what we can do. keeping faith. for after all that has been said here I do hold that there is some obligation on the Government to keep faith with a nation with whom it makes a treaty and a contract: I do believe that keeping faith with China. extending these laws for another ten years. we shall have practically eradicated the evil. if it be one. and I agree that it is one. resulting from this undesirable class of immigration.
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