We enter upon no denunciation of the Chinese Empire or upon any wholesale arraigmnent of her subjects. There are Chinese scholars of renown. statesmen of ability. merchants of honor and sagacity. but they are not of the classes which are so unattractive to us. We exclude contract laborers from all countries. No contract laborer. whether from the United Kingdom or any country in continental Europe or elsewhere. is permitted to enter the gates at Ellis Island. The exclusion of Chinese laborers. whether under contract or not. is dictated solely by thesame motives and in the interest of American labor and of American civilization. Some question has arisen as to whether the law should operate beyond the term of the Gresham treaty of 1894. it being suggested that the proposed act should terminate with the expiration of that treaty.
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