Mr. Chairman. this startling proposition presents itself. Ten millions of Asiatics. not one of whom is fit to be an American citizen or to be made an American citizenbecause that is what they will beand have all the rights and privileges of American citizensl They can live on 15 cents a day from habit as well as we can on a dollar a day. Under the tutelage of skillful American teachers they will soon be as competent to use American machinery as our own mechanics. and the result of the whole thing is that American laborers. white and black. are to be brought into competition with the pauper labor of Europe and Asia. which you gentlemen have talked about so long. without a single. solitary compensatory benefit from the theory of free trade. Now. think about it on the grounds of humanity. We are told that we have commissioned ourselves as a lot of Don Quixotes to go forth into the world in quest of ventures. and that our duty is to carry the blessings of liberty and settled government to the ends of the earth.
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Asiatics are described as unfit to be American citizens and able to live on 15 cents a day.