Title: Chinese Exclusion Bill
Author: (No Author Listed)
Digital History ID: 4047
Source: (No Source Found)
Date: 1892


# Chinese Exclusion Bill

## Author: (No Author Listed)

## Date: 1892

## Source: (No Source Found)

Annotation: _Article on Chinese Exclusion Bill in the American Missionary._

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 The Chinese Exclusion Bill, 1892

Undoubtedly this nation must throw some limitations on immigration to its shores. We cannot safely
make this land the dumping-ground for the pauper and criminal classes of the old continents. But, in
making such limitations, we must be guided by fairness and justice to all concerned. We must
discriminate against character and not against races or nations. And especially we must not violate
treaty obligations, nor cripple trade with the great nations of the old world, nor raise up such a
sense of indignation as will exclude missionaries from heathen lands. We fear that all these
objections lie against the bill recently passed in the House of Representatives excluding Chinese
from our shores.