>from The San Francisco call, February 01, 1910

Turn Back the Hindu Invasion

THE importation of 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 laborers 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 have 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 this country. They are wholly unfitted for the strenuous life of the 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 off 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 the most inefficient of the lot. They are dirty and quarrelsome as well as worthless in the field of labor.

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>from The San Francisco call, February 01, 1910

Turn Back the Hindu Invasion

THE importation of 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 laborers 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 have 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 this country. They are wholly unfitted for the strenuous life of the 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 off 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 the most inefficient of the lot. They are dirty and quarrelsome as well as worthless in the field of labor.