Forty thousand of them are native Hawaiians. 25.000 Japanese. 21.000 Chinese. 15.000 Portuguese. 3.000 Americans. and about 4.000 British. Germans. and French combined. Are we to have a Mongolian State in this Union. or are the Japanese and Chinese to be exported. thus bringing us into difficulties with each of these Governments? Where is the consistence of the junior Senator from my own State and the Representatives of that Commonwealth on this floor who have strongly advocated this exclusion of honest and hardworking Irish. German. Jewish. and Italian immigrants from our shores because they can not read or write. yet they are willing that the heterogeneous mass enumerated above should become part and parcel of the citizenship of this country? What has become of their oftrepeated professions of loyalty to the policy of our fathers. who have defeated every proposition for the acquisition of insular possession? This very same proposition of the acquisition of the Sandwich Islands was made to the peerless statesman from Massachusetts.
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