CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT 1882
“The Chinese Question” (1877)
“From their Asiatic hive they [coolies] still come pouring forth, and it is fair to presume, will increase in volume as the advantages offered by the outside world in wages and liberal government become better known, accelerated too by the famines, internal wars and pestilence, which so frequently devastate their own country… As suggested, he comes here as a laborer. He personifies the character in its absolutely menial aspect-what the operation of fifty centuries o