I speak for the honor of my country. I entreat you. gentlemen. to keep that plighted word. that solemn promise which is the oath of our country. to observe the obligations of a treaty which the other side has kept. and still keeps though we have already pressed hard upon it. If we would abstain from this system of irritating legislation just before electionsfor then it always comes upand approach China in the spirit in which she has treated us. this burden and trouble of Chinese laborers could soon be removed. the very source stopped. and the whole of this unwelcome immigration prevented by the hearty cooperation of China.which we could secure by a new agreement. But we have strained relations already. The better plan to prevent a threatened inundation of Chinamen of which gentlemen speak is not to construct a dam in this vicious method and at the expense of truth and selfrespect. but go to the source and stop it there effectively and forever. We can readily arrange with the Chinese Government for an efficient system. officers of thatcountry and our own cooperating there to prevent any laborer from coming from that empire to the United States. They have often indicated that. approached in aright spirit.they are willing to aid in discouraging emigration and avoid the troublesome questions to which it has given rise. They would do it if we would only treat them with halfway courtesy. They agreed to the Bayard treaty to keep out all laborers. and it would have gone into force but for the insulting demand upon them to ratify within fortyeight hours. as if they were under a bombardment.
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