The competition of the oriental with the American is said to be exhaustive and overwhelming. The moral notions. practices. and customs of the oriental are degrading to the mind and to the sentiment of the American. not only so. but immoral in themselves. and consequently it Is a public need that the alien people should be excluded. If that be so. then the question should be easy of solution. provided this proposed legislation be within the power of Congress. by merely providing that hereafter articles manufactured by or to which there has been a contribution of manfifiacture in .whole or in part by Japanese labor shall be excluded from the channels of intersthte coinmerce. * In other words. the oriental Gordian knot can be cut. riot. by an immigration law but by merely translating into law thepolice power of the Government of the United States which arises from and is coincident with our power to regulate commerce. Mr. President. there are an infinite number of subjects to which public sentiment relates and around which it sometines gathers in overwhelming volume.
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The moral notions, practices, and customs of the oriental are degrading to the mind and to the sentiment of the American.