The others who come. are for the mst part members of one family--Europeansthe family of the earlier settlers. the family of the men who freed it from the yoke of oppression. but the subjects of this law. are separated from us by a wide gulf of distisution. Everywhere the white race has recognized this distinction. and acting on a deep and trustworthy feeling. has imposed checks on the encroactent of this people. We are not shgular in our policy of Chinese exclusion. Our British neighbors in the north impose a capitation tax of $50 upon Chinese immigrants. and they propose to increase this tax to $500. British Australasia began legislating against them in 1855. Regulations of everincreasing severity were enacted. the capitation tax in New Zealand was raised to $100. and the number of immigrants restricted. to to to every 200 tons of shipping. but all these measures failed to effect the desired result. ad Tasmania. South Australia. and the other colonies of the new federation have adopted the policy of exclusion. Peru. where 80.000 coolies were landed between 1850 and 1894. Venezuela. and Ecuador. and Uruguay have also adopted this policy. The Spaniards in te Philippines three times expelled the Celestials at intervals of a centuryin 1605. in 1709. and in 1804.
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