The physical differences between them are no greater. and yet we should not be willing to introduce from Africa or from China a vast population of this kind to intermix with our own. Admit that to be true. and admit it to be true that we should establish such treaty arrangements as will prevent that result. is there any need in providing Under the Constitution of the United States that we should make a treaty with China by which such classes of Chinese should be permitted to come to the United States. in such numbers and under such restrictions as -might be proper. but not be permitted. under this treaty regulation. to reside in the State which objected to their residence and whose laws forbade it? The Constitution of the United States. in providing that up to a certain neriod of time the migration of persons admitted by any State should not be prohib ited. asserts by clear implicattion that after that period o time the State may admit or prohibit if Congress does not forbid it. the migration or immigration of such persons into their midst as they see fit. So the Constitution is clear that a treaty may be made with China by which the State of California would be entirely protected from the immigration of any Chinese for residence or any other purpose. A treaty might be made by which the Chinese inhabitants of California might be deported under proper conditions and with proper reservations as to their rights: I take it that the Chinese Government would not make objection to a reasonable provision protecting the rights of Chinese residents here. but everywhere. since I have been here. and this legislation has been proposed and enacted. the most severe and proscriptive provisions have been inserted in these treaties in relation to the Chinese upon the assumption that they were utterly unfit for any kind of relation or any kind of contact with our people. that they serve no useful industrial purpose. that they undermine the existing labor and pursuits and industries of our people. that they have attained a degree of economy in labor and subsistence which enables them to take the place of all our people. Mr. President.
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Chinese people are utterly unfit for any kind of relation or contact with our people, serve no useful industrial purpose, undermine existing labor, and have attained a degree of economy that enables them to take the place of all our people.