It Iias written tragic chapters into the history of Asia. Africa. and Europe. The Moors were as nunwelcome to tie people of the Spanish Peninsula as the Chinese and Japanese are to our fellowcitizens oil the Pacific coast. amid it will not do to dismiss the Pacific coast race question by saying that the objection to Asiatic immigration in California is only from the hoodlum element. It runs through all classes of society. It was my privilege to visit the city of San Francisco in company with a distinguished citizen of that city. then and now a Member of this House. With him I visited the Chinese quarter in that great anti unfortunate city. Under his intelligent direetioi I was shown how the Chinese question impinged upon every phase of the life of the citizens of the city of San Francisco. He indicated to me in an unmistakable way the physical daligers from contact. the danger from disease. the opportunities for and tendency to crime. the increase of all sorts of social and sanitary conditions which are to be avoided if possible. all due to the Asiatic congestion. Furthermore. he showed me by exaniples the disastrous competition of the Asiatics with the citizens of San Francisco and California. his constituents. He convinced me that if this Congress did its duty to the people of the American Union who reside upon the Pacific coast it would forever make it inpossible that those competitors in great numbers should be permitted to come in from Asiatic countries. Therefore. Mr.
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Asiatic congestion leads to physical dangers, disease, crime, and disastrous competition.