The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-29
ABE HUMMEL TALKS
ABOUT THE HINDU
Says His Invasion of This COun-
try Is a Great and Last
ing Danger.

Abe II. Hummel, the well-kpown law
yer OF New York City, and recognized
internationally as an authority on the
atrical law, is registered at the Knuts-
ford hotel Mr., Hummel arrived in the
city Sunday afternoon from the west on
the last leg of trip around the world
which has taken about two years. In an
interview granted The Tribune, Sunday
night. Mr. Hummel sounds a note of
warning against the admission of Hin
dus TO this country declaring that an
increased influx OF this class OF paupcr
labor to the Pacific coast Is a far great
or menace than the influx Of Chinese and
Japanese.
With Mr.. Hummel at the Knutsford are
his sister, Miss Elummel. and Mrs $. II.
kaffenburgh of New York C.ity and a
N, kaffenburgh OF London. England. Fol
lowing visit of q day or two In Salt
Lake, the party Will 80 to Yellowstone
park.
During his tour around the world. MT
Hummel has given q close personal study
to the manners, habits and customs OF
tne people and the laws and political
status OF tho most important countries
OF Europe and the Orient,
AS little as Is known In New York
or Utah and its wonderful resources and
OF the cleanliness and beauty of Salt
Lake Clty's bUuleVards, Just as little is
known by the average American or Euro
pean about the hundreds OF millions OF
humanity existing In the Orient and the
far east said Mr., Hummel, Sunday
night.
mo historian has as yet aptly or
graphically described the eruesome ma
ture OF the poverty of our fellow men.
existing under conditions which are, to
put II mildly, nothing short OF revolving
There are paris OF India where children
have to be taught to play. The absurd
ity OF caste In that much populated coun-
try would be ludicrous II it were not
ic ICnt I,n
foreigner and to the native born"
Mr.. Hummel is OF the opinion that the
chinese possess greater possibilities for
advancement in oil lines of intellectual
endeavor than do the Japanese. In this
connection he said: THE difference that
l found between the native Chinaman
and the Japanese is apparent to every
one that makes study OF the character
chant Is synonymous with integrity-his
word Is his bond. The Japanese Is sub
tie, acquires the language OF the Occi-
dent with great rapidity. There are
numberless schools in Japan, but he is.
in spite OF his education, a high class
copyist, and not creator"
With regard to the Hindu invasion. Mr.
Hummol said: tMuch has been said and
much has been written, and much has
been legally enacted regarding the pre-
vention of the ingress into this country
OF the Chinese and Japanese, yet there
confronts us. as Grover Cleveland once
aptly said, "a condition and not a the
ory,' which is serious-the introduction Of
the Hindu into the United States. Up
TO the present the legal enactments
which have placed barriers against the
advent OF the Mongolian and the native
OF Nippon, have not encompaSSed the
native of India, who lives on food which
costs as little as that of other Asiatics
In competing with the sturdy American
laborer he would be n decided menace
Laws should be SO framed as 10 restrict
their entrance. When one takes into
consideration that India has $50, 900. 001
people, one can realize the Importance
of drastic measures being taken TO pre-
vent this country from being ovcrrun
with pauper labor of this kind"