If these laws are rightand they I are tnoroughly rightthen the letalone principle is fatally vrong in that direction. and if it is wrong in one direction there is no reason to suppose that it is right in any other. Take another case. Some years ago. in response to the workingmen of California. this country entered upon a policy of Chinese exclusion. The men who began it were denounced. The scholars. the economists. the Dhilanthropists. the professors. the colleges at the start were all against it. but the workingmen triumphed and today no party and no representative of any party dares to suggest the free admission of the Chinese.
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