Speech #780106798

Mr. Chairman. we are considering a most important policy in dealing with the Chinese immigration -today. We are dealing with a policy that undermines civilization. We are dealing with the kind of a policy that undermined the Roman civilization. I know something about the Chinese. As a boy of 12. I was immigrated from the State of Iowa to the State of Idaho. and at the point where I landed. where my father was a railroad station agent. there were nothing but Chinese inhabitants. I think there were 200 Chinese coolies employed in the immediate environs of the little town where I landed. It was simply a station along the railroad line. I saw the Chinese. I know something of the Chinese mentality.. I wonder how much these people here who want to open the gates to Chinese immigration know of the perils that the Chinese. immigration raised in California in the early days. and all the troubles that the people had to maintain themselves against being displaced wholly and bodily by the Chinese coolies. exploited by a few whites. It was the exploitation of cheap Asiatic people by the people of Rome that drove out the best fighting class in the world. their own Roman nationals. the people who had conquered the world. They were displaced by the importation of Asiatics and immigrants from Egypt. and when the barbarians came down upon Rome. where were the fighting men? They had been gone for hundreds of years. and Rome fell a victim to the invasion of the barbarians.