The Detroit Times, 1910

"HINDUS CONTINUE TO FLOCK TO U.S."

"No Effort Made at Frisco to Stop Entry of Undesirables, Although Other Ports Bar Them"

"The dumping place for the scum of the orient and India is San Francisco"

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"From this port the scum is distributed throughout California, Washington and Oregon. The scum of the orient is the Hindu. Dirty, dressed with yards of filthy white, green or blue cotton bound around the head..."
"The Hindu stalks through the streets of the coast cities. he is the worst type of immigrant. He is not fit to become a citizen. his very mode of life makes him entirely foreign to the people of the United States."
"yet thanks to the leniency of the immigration commissioner at the port of San Francisco, Hart H. North, this class of undesirables is flocking by the hundreds into the United States, through San Francisco, with the arrival of every boat from the orient"
"Why? Because the importation of the Hindu fits in well with the general scheme of the railroads, the big manufacturing plants and big business, to down labor on the coast."
"If a corporation can get a Hindu to work for $1.50 a day, what's the use of paying twice that for an American? No use at all, is the answer of the corporations, and so the Hindus continue to arrive in bands"
"But the great danger is not so much those who are here; it is those who are coming. India is a large country. It is a country fairly teeming with millions upon millions of emaciated, sickly Hindus who are living, or rather existing, on starvation wages"
"Therefore, the reports from the United States of huge wages to be earned, compared to those paid in their country, has resulted in a steady influx of these orientals which promises to result in a problem harder to solve than the Chinese or the Japanese"

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