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