There is one provision of our local registration law which. perhaps. might be objected to in some quarters. If a man is bald. for instance. his baldness must be noted and entered upon that record. If any such thing as that were required of the Chinese I have no doubt that certain people in the country would become so agitated that they would demand at once the abrogation of all Chinese exclusion laws. The registration provided by the Geary act is a plain provision. costing the Chinaman not one cent. It was not incorporated in that act to hurt the Mongolian. but was put there for his benefit. It was to enable the officers of the Government to determine who were rightfully in this country and who were not here legally. It is a law in the interest of the Chinamen who are legitimately and properly here. and it is a regulation which. as I have said. is not so severe as the regulations which have been imposed by States upon their own citizens.
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