San Francisco Call, Volume 107, Number 63, 1 February 1910 — Turn Back The Hindu invasion [ARTICLE]

Turn Back The Hindu invasion

fpMIK importation off Hindu coolies apparently proceeds in { ■ large volume. Every steamer from the orient brings a load of these highly undesirable people, most of whom are quite likely to become a public burden. They do not fit into the domestic or social economy of this country. As laborer* they are inferior and any severity of climate incapacitates them from work. "They are. in fact, the product of generations of lazy life under the tropics. We do not know how or why these people have been induced to come to California. We can understand that certain powerful influences which desire to introduce the cheapest kind of labor may Cave been brought to bear, but now that public attention has been directed to the influx by The Call it may be hoped that some means may be found to stop it. The Hindus are not wanted in California. They are not wanted in any part of the United States. It is a cruel kindness to bring these unfortunate people to tjhis country. They are wholly unfitted for the strenuous life of t3ie temperate zone and they are further handicapped by silly notions about caste and the special preparation of food in accord with caste rules. They are brought here to serve a selfish purpose, and they die oft like flies in the cold season. We have more Asiatics now in this country than is desirable, and the Hindus are the least useful and t]ie most inefficient ot>the \<A. They are dirty and quarrelsome as well as worthless in the lieM of labor. Xobodv wants these people in" California except John P. Irish. Harrison Gray Otis and their corporal's guard of followers. Their introduction is a menace to American civilization and it must be stopped. What sort of mongrel community is this, our California, like to become if these unassimilable breeds are to be permitted lo occupy the labor field? We have fought the Chinese and the Japanese invasions with more or less success, but now we are threatened with something worse. If the immigration laws are noi ' strong enough to hold off the incoming tide they must be strengthened, and in the meantime the officials, of this port will be, held strictly to account for a rigid enforcement of the laws