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In all the history of their migration there is :p.o insta11ce of
fusion of wealth among the masses must be provided, and that
their ever having assi~ilated with any other race, submitti:µg
by the only possible method, viz, an increase in their wages and
or ~onforming to its laws, religion, or customs. R~ce prejudiceEl
the reduction of the hours of labor, now made possible by" nat-
and antipathies innate in manktnd were too r~si~tan~. Chang~
ural power, engendered and put forth by material objects," the
of conditions, however great, has never produced any ch~nge iµ
elements being the motive power directed by the hand of labor,
them. They, under all conditions and circumst;mce~, have re-
the result a multiplication of production and wealth many fold.
mained true to their civilization. Wherever they are, they are
That for the creation of wealth the law of supply and demand
a people apart, ,yithout social interco1.1:rse with qther rac~s.
must operate conjointly, consumption being necessary for produc-
B,aces so dissimilar can not assimilate and hence can not exist
tion, and that to consume labor must be employed, and, as an
together in unity, peace or prosperity-~:me or the other m~st
economic writer puts it, "to enlarge the social opportunities of
survive and the older, the simple, will exhaust th~ 11ewer anq.
the masses."
more com1)lex. This is a law of nature: and ChiIJ.a, with from
And hence, in consonance with this new and practical eco-
six hundred and fifty to seven hundreq. and fifty millions of peo-
nomic sentiment, we have legislated against the importation of
ple to draw from, if permitted, will possess this land.
the products ofcheap labor, we have passed laws against the in-
In the earlier history of our nation, whe:i;i society was com-
coming of the low-price and contract labor of Europe, of paupers,
paratively simple and our country sparsely settled, our for~-
convicts, insane, and vagabonds, and 'Go prevent the influx of the
fathers were imbued with the French theories of "liberty,
most illimoral and the cheapest of all labor, the Mongolian. But
equality, and frate:mity," and decl~red this land a" refµge for
our laws are incomplete, they are defective, hence evaded, and,
the oppressed and destitute of all nations." They believed that
in consequence, do not meet the desired end.
a Democracy, pure and simple, would evolve .a high state of
These defects more especially apply to the exclusion of the
civilization, in which all mankind should and would share.
Chinese; as it is far more difficult, next to impossible, to legis-
Since which time the great teacher" Experience" has taught
late against a race that has nothing in common with us, but
us "wisdom," and that the extreme theories of the protherhood
whose interest and sentiment are averse to ours and who have
of mankind were inconsistent and impossible wit:P. a complex
no regard for the sanctity of an oath, than against a race of our
state of society; that other factors than fraternity and be11evo-
O\Vn type.
lence were necessary to build up and preserve the nation ~:µd
The Chinese have a sovereign contempt for our civilization
its civilization. That the fundamental principle un~erlying hu-
and no regard for our rights or laws; and when we contemplate
man nature is selfishness-deny itwhomay-one of l:!elf-preserva-
that in their veins courses the blood of over fifty centuries, with-
tion, ,; enlightened selfishness," and without which ctvilizatio11
out an alien taint, is it remarkable that they should feel their
would not have reached its present high type; that to p1~eserve
superiority, and .have no respect for our civilization or God, whom
this it was necessary to protect it, not only from bad civilizatto:r;i.s,
they say man killed? They have laws unto themselves; unwrit-
but from the pauper, the criminal, the vagabo11d, a11d anarchist
ten laws, traditions, which bind and govern them. With theJ.?
elementsfrom whateversourqeth~ymigp.tcome. Th~tanintellt-
the end justifies the means, and that end, however accomplished,
gent people was necessm-y to perpetuate a gqvernme:µt "of the
is their migration from an overpopulated and poverty-stricken
people" and rule by public opinion. That to become intelligent
land-where the struggle for life is so severe that the old, the
both time and means were required for education; that to pro-
infirm, the incurable sick, and ihe female infant are tnrown into
cure these the laborer must be protected and a more general dif-
the gt}~ter to starve and die, as they could not produce but would
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