How long has it been since there was passed through both Houses of Congress and sent to the Executive for his signature a bill excluding from our shores the ignorance. the pauperism. and the crime of the Old World that are aniually coming to our shores to permeate our system and poison the blood of the body politic? And yet the Hawaiian annexationist is proposing that we shall now annex to our domain these people who are [open to the very objection upon which that bill was predicated. How long has it been since we pa.sd our Chinews exclusion acts and justified them to the country upon the ground that we must drive out the ignorance that was coming tonus from the Flowery Kingdom to the peril of our population and the damage of our free institutions? With what consistency. then. do we now reach out over an expanse of waters to draw to ourselves a population composed so largely of Chinese? nr. Chairman. under the present laws of Hawaii neither the Chinese nor Japanese are citizens of that Republic. neither would they become so under the laws of our own country should those islands become annexed. In th treaty proposed t be adopted the further immigration of Chinese into those islands is prohibited. and under its provisions they are not allowed to migrate from the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. The gentlemans fears are unfounded: in fact. the features he describes are impossible to exist. The gentlemans statements that the prevailing status in the native population and that of American and European origin is one of ignorance is clearly unfounded.
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