J. Hickman. of the Graniteville Mills. representing. probably. at least onehalf of the entire cottonmanufacturing interests of the State. All of these representative business men bore witness that they were opposed to cooly immigration. and did not wish any legislation that would make exclusion less stringent. but that they objected to the proposed new legislation because. while it was not needed for the purposes of exclusion. it would necessarily subject reputable Chinese merchants and other business men to much personal inconvenience and annoyance. and would give them and their Government good cause for taking offense. so that the natural effect would be to greatly injure our trade relations with China and to retard if not to stop altogether the progress of that trade. The assertion is often made on the opposite side of the question that China will continue to trade with us just the same no matter how we treat her. This assertion is as discourteous to China as it is untrue to the principles of human nature and to the recorded facts of history.
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