The task will simply be a herculean one. impossible of performance. and when that day comes. as truly as the sun shines. the Philippine question will become a phase of the great labor question. I wish I could arouse the workingmen of this country to a full and complete sense of the danger which confronts them on this score. The greatest objection to cooly immigration is that it does not come spontaneously and from its own free will. It is imported into this country as a rule in shiploads by unscrupulous and soulless corporations. Irish immigration. German immigration. and English immigration was an unmixed good to this country. because it came here spontaneously and of its own free will. That kind of immigration was desirable. But the importation of human freight is an unmitigated evil under all circumstances. wherever it comes from. regardless of considerations of race difference. because selfishness and greed will dump it upon us faster than we can digest it. On the dangers arising to the moral life of our nation from unrestricted Chinese immigration I have but barely touched. yet there is not a thinking man in America who would preserve the purity of American morals who would not justify Chinese exclusion on this score. taken aside from all other considerations. Chinatown. in San Francisco. is the scandal of this nation on account of the low and degrading vice that is practiced there. No youth can enter it without being poisoned by its very atmosphere.
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Chinatown in San Francisco is a scandal because of the low and degrading vice that is practiced there.