Prior to the Geary law. prior to the exclusion of the Chinaman. at the time when those railroads were built and at the time when those mines were being worked. there were a quarter of a million Chinamen in California. When their work was done. when the roads were built and the placer mines exhausted. all those Chinamen went home. At the time when the first exclusion act was passed. early in the eighties. there were only seventyfive thousand or so in California. Now. this question as to the Philippines is really of vast importance. You hear from General MacArthur what kind of men the Chinamen are.
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