| Show CHINESE EXCLUSION associate justice brewer of the united states supreme court delivered a speech on the occasion of a recent banquet which however much of truth it may have contained will not be likely to win him many friends on the slope he is ie quoted as ae having said the reason the chinese are exchia excluded ed from this country Is because their economical and industrious habits babits are a constant oo source of annoyance to the other residents of this cou country n try who are disposed to be careless in their ways of livi livine nir in ID other words ane people of the united states are like the man who desired the banishment of aristides Aristi det not that he be knew anything wrong against him but because it irritated him to hear him everywhere called the just if the people of america Amerle acan can divest themselves of prejudice long enough to look calmly at the question of chinese exclusion they will have to agree that as a matter of political economy this statement of the case to is very nearly dearly correct many men have thought and said the same thing there to is no more reason to exclude chinese than there is IB 0 t exclude industrious law abiding of any other foreign power for statistics prove that they rarely I 1 f ever become paupers haupers or a public charge and that in proportion to their number there are few of them that have to be rate 1 among the criminal classes As aa to the complaint corn plaint that their competition drives out all other labor and that they do not come here ta to identify themselves with the country as citify 8 that seems t to carry its ite own remedy and answer unless their work and wares ure are in demand by the people among whom they live they would bay have nothing to do and would soon have to go back home again to say aay by law that they shall not come into this country is in effect to say aay that it needa the enactment of a law to prevent the american people from hiring and buy ing from any laborers and merchants merchant 3 they please it laborers laborer ami merchants should happen to be chinese chinee justice brewers re marite will arouse a storm of indignation be cause of the hibb hi b and important polsi poi tion he be oc occupies cuple |
