That treaty was after a while amended. You said to China. "We want to amend the treaty so as to exclude your criminals." " Very well." said China. with the complacency that has characterized her in all our treaty relations with her up to the present time. We then said to China. "We want to amend the treaty again. so as to exclude your diseased people." "Very well. said China. "we will agree to the amendment." Then we said to China that we wanted to enter into another treatythat we proposed to China that " I we wanted to reser ve "-mark it. now-" to the legislative department of the Government of the United States the right to forbid by law the coming of any Chinese coolie laborer for a reasonable period of time." What did they say? Did they reproach you with the fact that you were the first to offer to make the treaty? No. but. with a look of complacency that ought to put the blush of shame upon every representative in the United States who undertakes to abuse the people of that country that may chance to be here. they said." Very well. we will agree to that also. You may pass any law you please to interdict for a reasonable period of time the coming of any Chinese coolies into the United St Ites." You passed the Page law under that treaty. and you passed the Geary law of the 5th of May. 1892. under that treaty. Does this look like a nation trying to get an advantage of the United States. or that they wanted to demand anything that was unreasonable? That is the fact of history in regard to the intercourse between the United States and China.
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