Vill providing for the continued exclusion of the Chinese has already been introduced in Congress, and some such measure will certainly be passed. Upon no subject was the President more em-photic in his message. "I regard it as necessary," he declared, to re-enact immediately the law excluding Chinese labourers, and to strengthen it wherever necessary in order to make its enforcement entirely effective."
The reasons he gave fur this opinion were that American labour should be protected from the presence in this country of any labourers brought over by contract or of those who, coming freely, yet represent a standard of living so depressed that they can undersell our men in the labour market and drag them to a lower level." A common. incident of Chinese immigra-j tion was that it came in under labour ind there can be no doubt that sare invincible in a competition of economical living. 'They remain, moreover, permanently" alien, and though the law against the Chinese' is exceptional its necessity is proved by -the testimony of
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