Speech #780091861

You may be right I may be wrong. but why not discuss it like mature human beings? Why can we not sit down around the conference table and discuss problems as they arisediscuss them logically and rationallywithout getting personalities involved? As an illustration. there is a great clamor for the repeal of the Chinese exclusion lawa tremendous appeal from a great number of the American people. from every walk of life. The cold facts are that not more than 107 Chinese could come into this country annually if China were put on a quota basis. There is no foundation for some statements made on this floor to the effect that we are going to open the doors and let all the coolie labor come in. Some Members on that side and on this side believed that was true. They were trying to stop consideration of the legislation to repeal the Chinese exclusion act by saying that such repeal would flood the country with Chinese coolie labor. What the proponents of this legislation have tried to do is tb give China some moral supportto help her against the Japanese propaganda trying to divide and disunite her people. We have been realistic in our approach instead of taking the superior attitude that we can lick any enemy alone.