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Our laws and treaties should be framed, not so as to put these people in the excepted classes, but to state that we will admit all Chinese, except Chinese of the coolie class, Chinese skilled or unskilled laborers.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “Our laws and treaties should be framed, not so as to put these people in the excepted classes, but to state that we will…”
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Roosevelt proposes a legal framework to admit Chinese individuals while excluding laborers.
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