The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-06-11
Prominent Speaker De-
clares OrientalS Come
Here Through Efforts
Of the Ship Companies
INTIMATEs BRIBERY OF CUSTOM
OFFICIALS AND SAYS MENACE
Is GREAT - NATIONAL CON-
FERENCE SESSION SPEECHES.

BUFFALO. June l0-The annual
conference of Charities and Correc-
tions which assembled here last evenf
ing continued its work today. The
topics discussed were immigration,
children, families and neighbor-
hoods.
Today's conference was opened by
c. c. Carstens. of Boston. secretary
and general agent of the society for
the prevention of cruelty to children
In an address on the breaking up of
families he said:
That family has failed OF Its main
function which adds unfit, undevelop
ed. unframed. deceitful. dishonest
and immoral men and women to
community.
Our communities do not yet
recognize the wrong" continued Mr.
Carstens. that is done certain fam
lilies because circumstances have
made it necessary for them to be
broken up. Nor do they recognize
/ the great wrong that is done the
children by allowing them to remain
with their parents or guardians
when all the influences about them re-
suit in their moral degeneration.
The institution of the family was for
the purpose of giving the child the
physical care and moral and religious
/ training in virtue which would make
! it grow into a useful man or woman.
/ II the child has no home, nor home
training. and instead of virtue Is
, learning vices every day, the good
of the child and the good of the State
require that the family shall be brok
en- up. This breaking of the ties In
many eases. does not need to be
permanent, and the removal of the
custody of children in some instances.
becomes the turning point in the
lives of parents 10 redeem them
selves"
That immigration from the Orient
TO this coutry is worked up by steam
ship lines and assisted by immigra-
tion agencies there organized was
the charge made by W. Almont
Gates, secretary of the State Board
of Charities and Correction of Cali
fornia in his address Mr.. Gates
sees veritable yellow peril to the
civilization on the Western Coast of
the United States. unless the Oriental
Immigrant is denied admission to
these shores.
He said in part: Conditions of
living in the Oriental countries are
very much harder than in America.
Centuries of toll and privation have
trained the Orientals TO do the larg
est amount of WORK at the least cost
of substance. American conditions
ofliving are exploited in the Orient
and immigration to this country Is
worked up by the steamship lines
and assisted by emigration agencies
there organized.
Chinese immigration to Cali
fornia commenced with the days OF
gold and continually increased until
stopped by the exclusion law of 1882,
at which time the annual increase OF
Chinese exceeded that of the white
race Then the Japenese eommene-
ed to arrive. and from 1900 to 1908.
one hundred and nine thousand were
admitted through the Custom Houses
There are now i'm this country ap-
proximately. four hundred and
seventy-six thousand Orientals, eighty
five per cent, of whom are on the
Pacific Coast and in Hawaii.
when the Oriental arrives he must
find work, and to get ii Will under
bid all others Even then 1t Is the
highest wages he ever earned. he
gets employment, first in the lowest
fields of labor. works long hours and
does fair work, so intrenching him
self. The he strikes to exclude all
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