The introduction or continuance of an element so entirely at variance with our economic. political. social. and moral conceptions. and so utterly incapable of adaptation to the Caucasian ideas of civilization. is not only dangerous to us as a class but is destructive of the various institutions we are so earnestly striving to uphold. maintain. or attain. Whatever may be the opinion of others. to us this matter does not permit a compromise. Chinese exclusion is an issue upon which all organized labor is a unit. The hearthstone of the American citizen is in danger. Every incoming coolie means the displacement of an American and the lowering of the American standard of living. It represents so much money sent out of the country. So much more vice and immorality injected into our social life in its place. We can not afford to trifle with a race of people so utterly unassimilative. so ruinous to our general prosperity. and so blighting to our every prospect. Comparison with immigration of other peoples is only possible by contrast. While we object to an indiscriminate influx of other foreign laborers. we maintain that discrimination in the case of Chinese immigrants is impossible. We insist upon an exclusion act which will effectively exclude. Provision must be made for proper enforcement of the law when enacted. and the jurisdiction and execution of the law so conferred as to remove it from the legal juggling to which former laws have been subject. In this plea all organized labor of this country join and urge us to act.
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Chinese are described as unassimilative and ruinous to general prosperity.