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Oreg.. although. possibly. not so exaggerated. and a similar condition of affairs is growing up in the city of Seattle. inmy own State. We .3887 will have these seething. swarming sink holes of iniquity in every Dr. Williams. who spent fortythree years in China. i his city in the Union within twenty years if our present system of Middle Kingdom. on pages 834. 835. and 836. speaks of the Chinese exclusion be broken down or materially weakened. If Chinese people thus: our good women who. annoyed by the servantgirl question. are With a general regard for outward decency they are vile and polluted in petitioning us to break down our present laws and let the China- a shocking degree. their conversation is full of filthy expressions and their men in could see these dens from which their domestic force is lives of impure acts. They are somewhat restrained in the latter by fences piut around the family circle. so that seduction and adultery are compararecruited as they actually exist. they would as soon think of tak- tively infrequent. the former may even be said to be rare. but brothels and ing vipers into their bosoms as to admit these moral lepers into theirinmatesoccureverywhereonlandandonwater. One danger attending young girls going abroad alone is that they will be stolen for incarceration in their households to contaminate and destroy their pure - hese gates of hell. By pictures. songs. and aphrodisiacs they excite their phere. sensuality. and. as the apostle says. "receive in themselves that recompense Let me refer. in this connection. to some of the testimony from of their error that is meet." California presented to the Senate Comnmittee on Immigration 582ore ineradicable than the sins of flesh is the falsity of the Chinese and its attendant sin of base ingratitude. their disregard for truth has perhaps while that committee was considering the bill now under consid- done more to lower their character than any other fault. They feel no shame eration. This testimony is found on pages 86. 87. and 88 of Sen- at beingdetected in a lie (thou h they have not gone quite so far as not to ate R t 776. rt know when they have lied) nor o they fear any punishment from their gods at eport 77.pait2 for it.