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Hawaiian Star, 1907

"THE GOVERNOR APPROVES RIOTS"

"SASYS BELLINGHAM PEOPLE TOOK BEST MEANS OF SETTLING HINDOO QUESTION"

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"'The state of Washington will not be a dumping ground of the Orient. The white laborers of Bellingham have long felt the necessity of taking some drastic action against the Hindoo competitor in the labor market and I am not surprised that the recent outbreak occurred.""

"'I am very glad no lives were lost and that no one was injured.' This is Governor Albert Meed's summing up of the recent race riots in his home town of Bellingham, Washington."

"Governor Meed does not believe that the Hindoo will ever have a rightful place in the laboring markets of the northwest."

"'The Hindoo is in no way fitted to ever become a part of an American community. Their standard of living is far below ours, or even that of the Japanese. They live in gregarious fashion in hovels at a cost of a few cents a day.'"

"'Because of the peculiarity of their dress, the white contractors cannot distinguish between the men and and women and both go into the mills and work side by side.'"

"'They do not live according to our sanitary standards and their districts are a positive danger to the community. As British subjects the Hindoo can enter Canada without hindrance, and after overwhelming the northern market, the surplus comes into the United States.'"

"'The Bellingham outbreak is only an instance in the battle the American laborer with his high standards and the cheap laborer in the Orient, that is now raging along the Pacific coast.'"

"'Until the question is definitely settled, and it is one of the gravest problems that now faces the country, the Bellingham people have adopted the best methods of settling it.'"

"'Take the undesirables to the roadbed of the Northern pacific and point north. They won't stop until they have crossed the line.'"