The Exclusion Of Asiatics.
Is our renown'd Dominion then so small As not to hold this new inhabitant? Or are her means so pitiably scant As not to yield a livelihood to all? Or are we lesser men, foredoom'd to thrall? Or so much better than the immigrant That we should make our hearts as adamant And guard against defilement with a wall? Nay, but our land is large and rich enough For us and ours and millions more - her need Is working men; she cries to let them in. Nor can we fear; our race is not the stuff Servants are made of, but a royal seed, And Christian, owning all mankind as kin.
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