More than that. Mr. Chairman. if the people of the State of California could settle this matter. they would not only exclude the Chinaman from the soil of this country. but they would exclude the Japanese and every other Asiatic. The people of California understand this question better than the gentleman from Iowa. and nobody who has not come in contact with it does understand it. and they know that unless these laws are enforced in their letter and spirit that we are creating from year to year a race problem that will be more difficult of solution and that will bring greater disaster to the people of the Pacific coast and to that beautiful section than the race question has brought and possibly may in. the future bring to the good people in the South. For that reason I know thai I speak for 95 per cent of the people of all classes of the State of California when I say we are praying. we are asking from year to yearwe have not come yet to demanding. we have no right to demand. though we would if we couldthat the Congress of the United States protect us from that great menace. oriental immigration. The gentleman is mistaken when he says that if 500.000 Chinese were imported they would not take a days labor away from a white man or an American citizen. I say.
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