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serve ours we must exclude the other-the Eastern. They will
not mingle or fuse, and were this possible the resultingtype
would have the vices of both without the virtues of either.
The Chinese race, born in the infancy of peoples, has as a race
and nation existed for a period of time so vast as to be incom-
prehensible to the human intellect.
While the races of the West have come and gone, leaving
scarcely an imprint to mark their existence, while they, under
ever changing environments, have contended }or existence and
supremacy, mingled and formed new nations, of higher types
and civilization, this single race has come down the ages, in one I
; poorer by millions of dollars that under other immigration would
long, unbroken, undeviating line, uninfluenced by example or
contact with the other or "'\7Vestern nations, they are the crea-
tion of one environment and unchanged conditions. For 3,000
years before the birth of Christ, and during their existence they
have maintained without change the same religion, the same
form of governm\3nt, thf} ~ame manners, habits, and customs.
A paternal form of government 1 the earliest known, in which
the power of life and death has ever been at the will of the
rulers'. from the Emperor down to and including the head of
families, [;.nd trial by peers unknown. vVhatever the outward
form of r eligion professed, and though, perhaps, conforming to
its pomp and circumstance, the Chinese venerate and worship
only the spirits of their ancestors. 'rhey are without God, with-
out conscience, without charity, devoid of sympathy and grati-
tude-fatalists. They are a mighty nation, composing nearly
one-half the population of the earth-a race to be feared. They
are highly intelligent, with great comprehensive powers, per-
sistent, cunning, patient; born diplomats, painfully industrious,
frugal to parsimony-the question with them being· not what
they need, but what they can do without and sustain life.
Through five thousand years heredity, intensified by isolation,
has produced and reproduced their race characteristics until
they are concrete; unchangeable, mentally, physically, or mor-
ally. And though wherever they go they disseminate vices that
kill mentally and physically and transmit their effect to the third
and fourth generations, they are more to be feared for their
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virtues than their vices; born and innured through centuries to
toil and privation there is no competing with them by those born
in and accustomed to the requirements of Western civilization,
however low the type may be. To do so life would not be worth
the having.
Experience has taught us that wherever they are, regardless
of disadvantages, that in whatever avenue of indilstry or labor
they. engage, they have, without exception, driven forth from
thence all competition. They come to us without wealth and
absorb ours. True, we have their labor, but its price is sent home
to enrich the land of their birth, and thus are we monthly the
remain in and increase our national wealth. They consume but
the minimum, the greater portion of which is imported from
their native land,· thus again depriving our citizens of the op-
portunities for labor, as consumption is a prerequisite to produc-
tion. Their immigrations have been invasions. In no instance
have they been welcomed to any country by its inhabitants; but,
on the contrary, from their first migration down to the present
time they have not only been met with protests, but persecution
and bloodshed have been the result.
The history of their early migrations teaches us that though
massacred by the tens of thousands and the deportation of the re-
mainder, they have repeatedly returned and endured the same
persecution and fate, until now they practically dominate and
possess that land.
The history of their emigration to and deportment from the
Philippine Islands is a" chapter of persecution," rapine, carnage,
and horrors for nearly one hundred years.
There are other notable instances, had I the space to include
them.
On our own soil, in this decade, history but repeated itself in
the Rock Springs massacre, its perpetrators incited by the same
cause, the same spirit, and giving the same reasons for the out-
rage as were i:dven three hundred years ago. There must be
some fondamental reason for these recurrences, and if this peo-
ple are permitted to further invade us we must expect repetitions.
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