And can any fairminded man say that the complaint has no foundation to rest upon? China says to us now and has a right to say: You excluded our laborersyou gave as. a reason that you could not permit cooly labor to compete with American labor. because such competition threatened disaster to the American laboring classes. we recognized the justness of your position and were satisfied. But now you admit Japanese coolies who are no better than our coolies. Why do you do so? How are we going to answer the question? We are not going to answer it. We can not answer it. Either we are treating China unfairly in excluding Chinese coolies. or we are treating our own people unfairly in admitting Japanese coolies. And in this connection I would commend the essay on " Industrial morality." found on the thirtyfourth page of the message. to its distinguished author for reperusal and careful examination. There is not one single objection that was ever urged against the Chinese laborer that does not apply with equal force against the Japanese laborer.