Let me quote further from an exhaustive and carefully prepared report made to the board of supervisors of that city by the present mayor and other members of that body: So far in San Francisco the heathen Chinee" has. In the slang parlance of the day. "got in his work with the same irresistible force as that with which Bostons other "slugging" champion has always displayed in his ring encounters And Senator itOAR. and his followers. who would fain open wide our gates to the " little brown uan." that he may be converted to Christianity aud share in the blessings of American citizenship. may possibly find food for new reflection hy a careful study of some of the naked facts which your committee have been enabled to present upon this branch of the subject. * * * Idols of the most hideous form and feature squat upon their altars. from which license. in the belief of the Chinaman. sufficient to justify crime or vice of any degree may be had for the asking. Idols that typify not the precepts of morality taught by Confucius. carved and created by the mechanical fancy of the most skillful Mongolian artist into every conceivable distortion of feature and limb. more frequently represent and give license to the practice of a vice than a virtue to be inculcated and lived up to. Even the "Goddess of Prostitution " sits enthroned upon her altar in more than one Josshouse in San Francisco. and licenses her votaries to the practice of nameless indulgences and the most bestial gratification of their sensuous lusts. Let the skeptic who views this statement as an exaggeration or misrepresentation of fact visit the Josshouses of San Francisco and he will no longer doubt. for it is the truth. While the Chinese have thus planted their idolatry among us with all its attendant vices. while they have undermined the morals and the physical health of our youth. and defied our laws. what has Christianity to show. through the aid of its missionaries or otherwise. in its conflict with Asiatic heathenism. whether it be in the advance of Christian morals or the Christian religion? In morals. nothing! And no one can possibly so pervertthe truth as tomaintain otherwise.
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Chinese immigrants are described as heathen, immoral, vice-ridden, and undermining the morals and health of American youth.