Asiatic Exclusion League, March 1910

The people the League opposes aren't always from Asia proper. In this case, they are against Syrians, Turks and Armenians. The League says those groups do not plan to become useful citizens, but just make a bunch of money and go home. After this there's more writing about the Chinese and the Hindus.

Someone named Theodore Bell is speaking. The ominous part, to me, is his contention that the people who do not believe in what the League does must be “aroused” to proceed to “vigorous and immediate action.”

He says it's “an eternal law of nature” that “has decreed that the white cannot assimilate the blood of another color without corrupting the very springs of civilization.” The really bad part about this is that the guy really believes what he's saying, and that there were a lot of people that believed the same way.

He doesn't care for Chinese, Japanese or Hindus.

More of his strong talk.

More of the “decadent” Oriental.

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