They ask us to help them in enforcing the law of selfpreservation. They ask us to protect them against this great danger. It is only the part of wisdom in us to heed their voice. i On the prosperity of the laboring man depends the prosperity of the country. Opposition to Chinese exclusion means taking away everything from the laboring men of this country except the bare necessities of life. It means the inaugurating of conditions which are intolerable among American toilers. That means poverty. unhappiness. and discontentment. and that in turn means anarchy and hatred and bitterness to threaten the existence of our free institutions and of our Government.
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Opposition to Chinese exclusion will take away everything from the laboring men of this country except the bare necessities of life.