Teddy Roosevelt: “I am convinced that the well-being of our wage-workers demands the exclusion of the Chinese coolies, and it is therefore…”

“I am convinced that the well-being of our wage-workers demands the exclusion of the Chinese coolies, and it is therefore our duty to exclude them, just as it would be the duty of China to exclude American laboring men if they became in any way a menace to China by entering into her country.”