But you can not. as Judge Field says. guard against this dreaded competition from men who live on two pounds of rice a day. who huddle together in bunks in close and fetid quarters. and who work with clothing so rotten that it finally falls off from decdy. The American laborer. says Judge Field in one of his great and earlier opinions. needs something more than a bare subsistence. He wants something with which he can educate his wife and children. and for that reason it has been found that American labor can not compete with this degraded alien labor in our Pacific States. * Is it a wonder that the people of those States have risen in their might and have objected to it and have asked for the passage of these laws? This question of a higher civilization is all there is of immigration. You know that China was the Cathay of medieval times. and I agree with Tennyson where he says: Thro the shadows of the globe we sweep into the younger day. Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
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Chinese men live on two pounds of rice a day, huddle together in bunks in close and fetid quarters, and work with clothing so rotten that it falls off.