At that period in the history of California. the cooly class was arriving through the Golden Gate by the thousands every month. They had driven out the white skilled mechanic in the manufacthre of shoes. cigars. brooms. underclothing. and overalls. They were making steady inroads in the field. the farm. the factory. and the workshop. and alarmed at the unrestricted immigration of this people. who. as a result of forty centuries of privation. had learned to support life upon the smallest quantity of food. whose creature comforts were few. who knew none of the blessings of home life. and who had a reserve population of 400.000.000 of equally undesirable elements to draw upon. caused the people of the Pacific coast to raise a cry of alarm which Congress did not fail to hear. The President. however. believing that the proposed legislation was in violation of treaty obligations. vetoed the bill. but forthwith appointed a commission to negotiate a new treaty that would give our Government the power to regulate Chinese immigration. The Commission negotiated two treatiesone to regulate commerce. the other to regulate the immigration of laborers. These treaties were ratified on November 17. 1880. and in consonance with the provisions of the latter treaty Congress passed an act to suspend for the period of twenty years the further immigration of Chinese laborers. President Arthur vetoed this bill on account of the twentyyear limitation. but on May 6. 1882. an act was approved that for a period of ten years suspended the coming of Chinese laborers into the United States. The people of the Pacific coast States hailed this legislation with delight and believed that the flood of Chinese immigration had been effectually stopped. Within a year it was discovered that the act of May 6. 1882. was seriously defective. and so Congress enacted a law amendatory thereof on July 5. 1884. . By the provisions of these laws any Chinese laborer who had been in the United States prior to the enhetment of the law of 1882 was permitted to return to this country.
Identified stereotypes
The paragraph stereotypes Chinese laborers as having learned to survive on the smallest quantity of food, lacking creature comforts and home life, and being an undesirable element.