The school district is a small number of families which have constituted themselves into a perfect system in our great governmental machinery. fully capable of performing every function required of it. From the school district the system is extended with enlarged obligations and increased powers to the township. from the township to the county. from the county to the State. and from the State finally to the sovereign nation. It seems to me that the same rights inhere in the State and in the nation which inhere in the family. and if a man has the right to exclude from his family an unwelcome intruder. o1e who would disturb that family life. contaminate its morals. and threaten its existence. then this Government has the right to draw the line on the kind of immigration which it in its wisdom deems undesirable. disastrous to its social progress. and menacing to its perpetuity. I am for the bill which the minority recommends for passage because I favor the most drastic legislation in this connection that is obtainable. The laborer of this country demands this legislation under the law of selfpreservation. the first and highest law in nature. It has been charged that this law would exclude from this country. besides the coolies. Chinese merchants. Chinese diplomats.
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