We exercised that right when we passed the Chinese exclusion act. If the Chinaman does not like us, so much the worse for his taste, of course. But, we complain, the Chinaman does not want to trade with us. It is too bad he does not understand the beneficent ethical as well as economic effects of free trade. The difference between a Puerto Rican tariff, a McKinley tariff and a Chinese tariff is after all one of degree.
All tariffs are relics of barbarism.
Would that the American people were civilized enough to know that. But the Chinaman does not like our religion. Neither do I like the brand that is usually exported for his consumption. The more benighted a man's religion the more anxious he is to bestow it upon others. Missionary zeal seems to bear an inverse ratio to religious enlightenment.