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Gentlemen also think that all this is prompted by race prejudice. that it has no foundation in fact. I thank God there is some race prejudice against the Orientals on the Pacific coast. because without prejudice amalgamation would come. and God forbid that anything of that kind should take place on the Pacific coast. It is true that as yet this race prejudice has not come to the point of such animosity as to lead to bloodshed and mob violence. though it may come to this if the immigration continues. because men that are hungry. and whose wives and children are hungry will not forever. and can not be expected. forever to restrain themselves. They have been restrained by the promise. the expectation. and hope that the Government of the United States would finally protect them from this peril. Once this hope is dissipated. once it comes to be a settled conviction in the minds of the people of the Pacific coast that the Government of the United States is indifferent to their interests and to their destiny. they may be forced to do what the people of Humboldt County did some twenty years agoorganize themselves. take possession by force of the property and persons of the Orientals within their confines. hire a ship. send them back to China. and warn them never to set their foot on the soil of that county again.