The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-09-20
H|NDUs CONTINUE
TO FLOCK To J.. 5.
No Effort Made at Frisco to Stop
Entry of Undesirables, Although
Other Ports Bar Them.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20.-The
dumping place for the scum OF the
orient and India Is San Francisco
From this port the scum IL distrib-
uted throughout California, Washing
ton and Oregon.
The scum OF the orient Is the Hindu.
Dirty, diseased, with yards OF filthy
white, green or blue cotton bound
around his head. the Hindu stalls
through the streets Of the coast cities.
He is the worst type Of immigrant.
He Ia not At to become q citizen. His
very mode Of life makes him entirely
foreign to the people Of the United
States, yet thanks to the deniency Of
the immigration commissioner at the
port of San Francisco, Hart II. North
this class of undesirables fs focking
by the hundreds into the United
Stables. through San Francisco, with
the arrival of every boat from the
orient.
Why? Because the importation OF
the Hindu Ats In well with the gen.
erai scheme Of the railroads, the big
manufacturing plants and big bust
ness. to down labor on the coast. II
a corporation can get Hindu to work
fr $3.50 a day, what's the use OF pay
ing twice that for an American? Nc
use at all, is the answer Of the cor
porations, and so the Hindus con-
true to arrive In bands.
Some of them are deported to their
native states In far away India, but
the big majority remain here to work
for the railroads or the labor union
baiters.
But the great danger Is not so
much those who are here; II is those
who are coming.
India Is a large country. II is a
country fairly teeming with millions
upon millions of emaciated, sickly
Hindus who are living, or rather ex-
listing, on starvation wages. There
fore. the reports from the United
States of huge wages to be earned,
compared to those paid In their coun-
try. has resulted In a steady influx
OF these orientals which promises TO
result in a problem harder to solve
than that of the Chinese or the jap
anese.
In India a clerk can be had for $40
a month; man cook for ~ month;
a maid servant for 81 a month; car
penters, bricklayers. etc., 33 cents
day. ETC. The scale of wages Is less
for days work in India than the
average American mechanic or labor
er receives per hour.
These are the people who are flood
ing the western states. the people that
railroads are welcoming with open
arsm and furnishing employment to-
because they help them solve the
problem of paying the American
workman starvation wages.
Charges have been made against
the commission of immigration al
San Francisco. These charges nave
resulted In nothing. Demands have
been made that this port be closed
to the Hindu as are the other ports
Of the Pacific coast on the GROUNDS
that the Hindu is apt TO become
public charge and that he practices
polygamy. But although this has
been found sufficient to stop their
entry In other coast ports they con-
tinue to flock to San Francisco, where
they are distributed around the coun-
try In railroad camps. vineyards, foun-
dries, etc.
When the legislature OF California
convenes at the next session there
will be a big row on over the Hindu.
Not only will the labor party demand
that they be excluded but they Will
also demand that laws be passed pro-
hibiting Asiatics from owning land
within the state. California tried TO
stop Asiatic immigration when she
faced the Japanese problem, but the
federal government demanded that II
be allowed to cope with the situation.
But since the federal government
failed to stop that which the laborers
think is a menace to them and their
families, they are going to take mat
tiers in their own hands and fight It
out to the bitter end-either TO VIC
tory or defeat
"The Hindu. the Jap, the Chinaman
and the rest must co." is the slogan
OF labor. And labor H. going TO ace
that they do 60. or know the reason
/
why.