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Teddy Roosevelt: “But in the effort to carry out the policy of excluding Chinese laborers, Chinese coolies, grave injustice and wrong have…”

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But in the effort to carry out the policy of excluding Chinese laborers, Chinese coolies, grave injustice and wrong have been done by this Nation to the people of China, and therefore ultimately to this Nation itself.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt acknowledges the injustices done to China in the process of excluding Chinese laborers.

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