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21 Jul, 9 tweets, 3 min read

Ogden Standard, 1913

"THE HINDOOS NOW GIVE WORRIMENT"

"California has not seen the end of its anti-alien agitation.If the following from the San Francisco Chronicle correctly sets forth the latest problem in race hatred that is facing the people of that state"

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"Of all the Oriental races that have come to this State, the Chinese are by far the least objectionable and most useful and the Hindoos by far the worst."

"These people have effected a lodgment in this State, there is now law excluding them and no home government which can prevent their coming even if it is so desired"

"Their numbers cannot greatly increase without provoking actual physical racial conflicts, from which, happily, this State has been thus far free. Sound statesmanship must recognize this fact, and will take measures to prevent it"

"Careful reading of the commercial treaty of 1815, which is still in force, indicates that it is at least doubtful whether the mutual guarantees of liberty and residency apply to any part of the British possessions except Great Britain and Ireland"

"Apparently the Indian government is entirely free to exclude Americans from India, and we are free to exclude East Indians from this country. And it is best that we exercise that right now."

"Representative Church is said to be preparing a bill for that purpose which he will introduce into the House of Representatives. And, if properly drawn, as presumably it will be, it should pass. And the quicker the better"

"The Hindoos are religious fanatics, they are clannish and divided into caste: they are unclean and do not enter into American ways or habits, they are non-assimilable."

"Once they gain a strong foothold on the Pacific Coast, it will be more difficult to dislodge them than any other Oriental"

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The Brownsville Herald, 1930

"WASH TUBBS - Ridiculous But True"

"My word, sir, that is a problem! I have already refused $60,000,000 in cash because I feared the vil designs of certain potentates in India"

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"Certainly, Mr. Tubbs, certainly. So would any man of principle, any lover of freedom. I tell you, sir, those Hindoos are dangerous. They are religious fanatics, and might easily start a holy war against the entire white race"

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"Today the Hindoo servant is a lazy, good-for-nothing thief, and I will tell you how to handle him," said the general traffic manager of the Southern India Railway in his office at Madras, India to an Enquirer representative, who was in the orient several months ago..."

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"Placid Hindoo Servants"

"Hindoo servants are the most imperturbable in the world. You may throw one downstairs or pat him on the back. He accepts both with exactly the same expression of countenance"

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"The Indian's religion is at the bottom of all his acts, all his feelings. He eats, sleeps, moves and has his being according to religious formula, and his doctrine of reincarnation forms his whole philosophy of life."

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The Ogden Standard, 1914

"HINDU TEMPLE IS WRECKED BY BOMB"

"A man named Vavara, believed to have been a religious fanatic, wrecked the Hindu temple at Filbert and Webster streets this afternoon, exploding a dynamite bomb at the feet of Swami Trigunatita"

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"Vavara was instantly killed, the bomb blowing him almost in two. The swami was horribly injured about the legs and feed. Of the congregation of about thirty-five persons, four were injured."

"Vavara was known to all of the members of the congregation. He was an inmate of the monastery which is maintained on the third floor of the temple up to two years ago, when, for some reason, he was dropped"

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