President. that the great and farseeing statesman from Maine. our once great leader. James G. Blaine. rose here. in the Senate and said. in effect. that we had to choose between the civilization of Christ and the civilization of Confucius. He lifted What was said to be a local problem Into a national problem. Largely due to that great statesman the Congress reenacted the Chinese exclusion law and relieved this country from the then imminent inundation from Asia. Aso.of that time. there began to come in the Japanese. and it was contemplated that there should be a specific Japanese exclusioin law. For certain reasons that law was not enacted.
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