Speech #590134173

And the objections to again admitting Chinese can not be put better than it was put by the President himself in his message to Congress. December 5. 1905. and [ wish to read it and put it opposite to what he says now about the Japanese. These coolies are all alike. If there is any difference between these two people. it is not in favor of the Japanese. This is what the President said in 1905. speaking of the Chinese: The questions arising in connection with Chinese immigration stand by themselves. The conditions in China are such that the entire Chinese cooly class. that is. the class of Chinese laborers. skilled and unskilled. legitimately come under the head of undesirable immigrants to this country. because of their numbers. the low wages for which they work. and their low standard of living. Not only is it to the interest of this country to keep them out. but the Chinese authorities do not desire that they should be admitted. That is just what Japan is saying now. but the Chinese came all the same. and they kept on coming. and China did not try to stopi them. and Japan is not trying to stop the Japanese.