The world is now protesting against the trade restrictions upon our domestic soil. Can we extend these restrictions upon foreign trade and preferences to our own to an oriental country now dominated by us without running the risk of oriental retaliation that will restrict our trade in the Orient generally? It is utterly impossible for us to take a step backward upon the question of Chinese immigration. The mind of the American people is fixed upon that. It Is unnecessary to discuss it. You can not find ten men in the Senate and you can not find twentyfive men in the House of Representatives who today would vote to relax the laws for the exclusion of Chinese coolies. Is it wise for us to go a step further and in addition to excluding their people practically exclude their goods from territory in the Orient dominated by the American sovereignty?
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