Speech #590059421

But can we have any assurance of these promised riches from China with her 400.000.000 people? Have we not by our misguided legislation invoked a ruinous boycott to American connerce. if not civil war with that country? Instead of marshaling our armies upon the shores of China. why not modify our tariff schedule and repeal the discriminating features of the Chinese exclusion law. or why not apply its provisions to like characters from other countries. thereby removing its offending features. and save the South its greatest market. as well as the nation from threatened war? Instead of spending this session on minor measures. why not do something that will make half of New England and all of the South sing our praises? To the South peace with China means wealth. war means ruin.