Ballington Booth. it will verify my statements. and will not only tell you of the Italian town. but of the Polish town. the Irish. the Portuguese. the Hungarian. and the Italian and Jewish town combined. All these settlers came from Europe and other countries. as I have said. at -the rate of l.00 per day. They are pauper laborers. They have lowered your wages they have lowered your morals. and disgraced your city. Is it not sensible and just that you should exclude them? To simply attack the few poor Chinese is against all reason and against the teachings of Jesus Christ. This unjust exclusion law will greatly injure your commerce. Let me quote what President Jordan says: "As to Chinese exclusion. it is all one sided. I am not in sympathy with the sentiment that would exclude all the Chinese from the country. We should bear in mind that if China is opened to the trade of America. we can not afford to antagonize that great nation by a rigid law of exclusion. We can not expect that the ports of China will be wide open to us if we close all our ports to China." Again. this unjust exclusion act is against treaty obligations. Dr. John Fryer. professor of oriental languages and literature in the University of Califoinia. is pronounced in the declaration that the exclusion act is a gross breach of the treaty obligations to China. Suppose that in some future day China should become a powerful nationand I have not the least doubt that she willand then she should make a law admitting every people under the sun but the Americans. China may be despised now but I have a steadfast hope that she will soon become one of the great nations on earth. yes. a Christian nation.too.
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