Porto Rico. Guam. and other islands. as the sale bill says. "too tedious to mention." That decision of the Supreme Court sounded like a fire bell at midnight. In the wild orgy of annexation in which we have been recently indulging. we took to our palpitating bosoms hundreds of thousands of Chinese. of all classes and conditions. ranging from savants and merchant pinces to coolies. who are a little above the beasts that perish. When we annexed the Sandwich Islands we took twentyodd thousand Chinese. When we acquired the Philippines we took in a number of Chinese variously stated at from two hundred thousand to a million and threequarters.