True Left

Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion: Meat vs Rice, American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism. Which Shall Survive?

You cannot work a man who must have beef and bread, and would prefer beef, alongside of a man who can live on rice. In all such conflicts, and in all such struggles, the result is not to bring up the man who lives on rice to the beef-and-bread standard, but it is to bring down the beef-and-bread man to the rice standard.