I say he discounts the intelligence of the people of this country. He says they do not understand this law. I think they do understand the law. that it denies to the Chinese the rights accorded to every other class of immigrants. They do understand the law. that it denies to these people the constitutional right that presupposes every man innocent until he is proven to be a criminal. I denounce the law that assumes a man to be a criminal and calls upon him to prove his innocence. whether the rule is applied by the Geary law in the State Department or whether that rule presupposes a man to be a criminal is applied by the Commissioner of Pensions in the Pension Office to the soldiers of the country. I denounce that principle everywhere. I denounce the Geary law. which commits a Chinaman to jail without bail pending his trial. or pending proceedings under writ of habeas corpus and denies to him the right to subpoena witnesses without paying the expense of the process. The law. as I understand it. that we already have if enforced. deports a man and his wife born in China. and leaves the children born in this country like an orphan or a pauper. I know that the law is a sop thrown to the sandlot orators and hoodluis of California. and they themselves are foreigners.
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