He is everywhere. necessarily in competition with intelligent American white labor. The future of this country will be what the men who toil with their hands make it. Free government and republican institutions are not to be preserved by leveling down in this country the price of labor and the condition of laborers to that of Chinese coolies. but by maintaining a rate of wages which will make the laboring man comfortable. intelligent and independent. The fact that Chinese labor in this country is in necessary competition with white labor is the principal reason why I favor the prohibition of the coming of Chinese laborers to our shores. It will conduce to a better understanding of the precise question now confronting Congress if a brief history of the Chinese and Chinese restrictive legislation in this country be given.