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The Seattle Star, 1913

"200 HINDUS ARRIVE IN SEATTLE"

"AND THERE'S NO LAW TO BAR A HUNDRED MILLION MORE"

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"We bar the Japs the Chinese, and talk of the yellow peril, but there is no law to bar a hundred million of these Hindus, should they care to come to the Pacific coast. Over 200 came to Seattle yesterday on the Great Northern liner Minnesota"

"'There is no law barring Hindus,' said the commissioner of immigration, when asked what he would do with this nondescript crowd of Asiatics. 'Each one will be examined...'"

"'No specific amount of money is necessary to secure admission to this country, but we take into consideration all conditions and what the applicant expects to do.'"

"'Ten years ago there were no Hindus on Pacific coast, except an occasional 'fakir,' or Hindu doctor. Today there are several thousand. It is a common sight to see six or a dozen of them trailing along the street. East Indian fashion."

"'It is the same with the Japanese. before 1895 there were so few that people stopped to look at them on the street. Today there are 60,000 in California, 10,000 in Oregon, and 20,000 in Washington."

"The Japanese came here because they said Japan was overcrowded and a famine threatened. The Hindus have a much better excuse. East India is not only overcrowded, but it is jammed. Famine is not only threatened, but a fearful fact"

"All of the objections raised against the Chinese and Japs pale into insignificance when compared with those against the East Indians"

"THEY BREED LIKE RATS, LIVE IN SQUALOR, AND DIE BY THE MILLION OF PLAGUE AN STARVATION."

"The East Indian has lived for so many centuries in poverty and oppression that he has reached a plane much lower than that of the Japanese. Grown men marry baby girls six and eight years old."

"British Columbia awakened to the peril early, and after two or three anti-Hindu demonstrations, a rule was made preventing their sailing on vessels bound for Canadian ports. But they are still welcome in the United States."

"The population of East India is 316,000,000. It is estimated that if 100,000,000 emigrated, the rest would have a good chance to earn a living."