We had supposed. Mr. Chairman. since 1880. the date of the first real practical achievement in the name of labor for the exclusion of cheap Chinese labor and especially the laborers of the Asiatic continent. that this question had been settled. Year after year it has been brought before Congress. and yearafter year substantial victories have been obtained upon the side of American labor. Only last year we supposed we hal more definitely than before settled this question. when a law very strict and exclusive in its provisions was passed. But we discover now that we were mistaken. The Administration in power has seen fit to open the doors in a different direction. Finding that the representatives of the people were inimical to any further admission of the cheap contract laborers of Europe and especially Chinese coolie laborers. that Administratijn concluded that it had no other way by which to evade and avoid the enactments of this Congress except by treaty and it has now entered into a treaty by which Chinese laborers are to be admitted into this country in direct violation of all the exclusion acts which have been passed through this high council of the nation for the last fourteen or fifteen years. Sir. I pronounce that treaty to be a fraud and a deception. a national humiliation and a disgrace. as well as an incecusable surrender of principle.
Identified stereotypes
Chinese laborers are cheap contract laborers.