days, within three days the transcript forwarded to the Commissioner-
General, and nothing to be considered by him except the testimony obtained
in this star chamber proceeding. This is called due process of
law to protect the rights of an American citizen, and sufficient to prevent
inquiry in the courts....

``Must an American citizen, seeking to return to this his native land, be
compelled to bring with him two witnesses to prove the place of his birth
or else be denied his right to return, and all opportunity of establishing
his citizenship in the courts of his country? No such rule is enforced
against an American citizen of Anglo-Saxon descent, and if this be, as
claimed, a government of laws and not of men, I do not think it should
be enforced against American citizens of Chinese descent....

``Finally, let me say that the time has been when many young men
from China came to our educational institutions to pursue their studies
when her commerce sought our shores and her people came to build our
railroads, and when China looked upon this country as her best friend.
If all this be reversed and the most populous nation on earth becomes the
great antagonist of this Republic, the careful student of history will recall
the words of Scripture, `they have sown the wind, and they shall reap
the whirlwind,' and for cause of such antagonism need look no further
than the treatment accorded during the last twenty years by this country
to the people of that nation.''[47]


[47] Dissenting opinion in the case of the United States, Petitioner vs.
Sing Tuck or King Do and thirty-one others, April 25, 1904.