Speech #610197737

I do not. They will vote as blithely for withdrawing some other persons enterprise and industry from enjoyment as they would to control the right of a Chinaman to participate in this Government. I think they gave much more attention to the Chinese exclusion act than they ever did to the rights of an American citizen upon the public lands. I know that in the great legislative bodies of this country months were spent in considering the question of what rights a Chinaman should have in the United States. The debate and consideration of that question were listened to with interest. and legislators did not vote without understanding the question upon which they were voting. but when millions of their fellowcitizens are asking them to give due and careful consideration to a question that affects them. they go away. and when the roll call comes they step inside the door and they vote "yea "or "nay" at the nod or beck of some one who has assumed to be a leader.