We will govern all these new and strange peoplesmany of them Chinesewith all the kindness and liberty that play around our institutions. but I insist that always and forever it shall be done in a just regard to our people here at home. I vote for and support this bill because I believe it will effectually conserve the honor and dignity of. the American worker from all competition with foreign or insular Chinese cooly labor. because I believe it fully meets the new and delicate condition of affairs in Hawaii. Porto Rico. and the Philippines. It prevents Chinese immigration of labor into any of these possessions of ours. It restricts all Chinese migration from one insular possession to the other. But more than this. it says. in emphatic terms. that not a single Chinese laborer shall set his foot upon American soil.
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