Accordingly. they marked a space upon the map which included countries containing. as I figure roughly in my head. something like 300.000.000. and said .no human being in all that vast territory could ever come to the United States. The point was raised that to thus arbitrarily exclude everybody would exclude even those members of the white race who happen to. be within that vast excluded territory. which embraces about onehalf of all Asia. and so the words "white persons " were inserted in the bill. the effect being that white -persons residing within that territory could. if otherwise qualified. enter the United States. But the conferees cut out the words "white persons." leaving the bill so that it absolutely excludes every human being within that mighty portion of the earths surface. and this regardless of the intellectual or moral qualifications of the immigrant and even though he be of the purest of pure white blood.
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