Besides this, the fact that they would work for less money than our own
workmen was very harmful to our citizens.

Employers will always get their work done for as little as possible, and
if the Chinamen had been allowed to swarm into this country, and work for
the pittance they ask, the result would have been that our own workmen
would have been obliged to take the same miserable wages or starve.

The Chinamen like this country, and are willing to work for anything they
can get, because they are so much better off here than at home.

It is their anxiety to get over to this free land that is causing the
present difficulty.

To make the Tennessee Exposition a great success, Congress resolved to
make it possible for China to send over an exhibit of her wonderful art
works.

A resolution was therefore passed, that the Chinese Exclusion Law shall
not be held to prevent the landing of Chinamen who are going to exhibit at
the Exposition, or whose labor is necessary to prepare the exhibit.

The bill, happily, adds that Chinamen coming to this country on Exposition
business must have a special permission from the Secretary of the Treasury
before they will be allowed to land, and that they can only stay in the
country one year after the close of the Exposition. If found in the
country after that time, they will be arrested, and then sent back to
China.

This was too fine a chance for the Chinese to miss. They started for this