Justice Field. of the Supreme Court. where Judge Bradley says that Chinese of the lower class have little regard for the solemnity of an oath. and where Judge Field says that par ol evidence should be excluded because the Chinaman "has loose notions as to the obligation of an oath." As to their competition with white labor. and the consequent degradation of white labor. the experience of the Pacific coast is too well known. it needs no argument from me. There is this salient difference (and I desire to call the attention of the House to this) between the instances of the expulsion of the Jews and the expulsion of the Huguenots. and the expulsion or attempted expulsion of the Chinese from this country. As has been well pointed out by a leading authority on this question of immigration. Prof. Richmond Mayo Smith. of Columbia College. the cosmopolitan duty of receiving the foreigner does not apply in the case of a lower civilization. So we are not bound to open the gates of our country to the Chinaman. since he represents a lower civilization. Nor are we called upon by the theory that this country is an asylum for the oppressed. to allow it to become the dumping ground for the convict and the pauper and the alien laborer. And those arguments to which I have advertedthat is. the theory that this country must be an asylum for the oppressed and that we are bound to take in any foreignerare the only arguments I have ever heard advanced for letting the Chinese laborer come into this country. As to the Six Companies. are the Six Companies entitled to any indulgence?
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Chinese of the lower class have little regard for the solemnity of an oath.