Clip of the Day 6/22/2022

An editorial from the San Francisco Call, 1910

"These Hindus are by far the most objectionable call of Asiatic immigrants arriving in this country. They are unfitted by constitution to withstand the rigors and variations of the American climate and as laborers they are distressingly inferior"

"The Hindus, moreover, constitute a race problem of even more difficult and dangerous character than do other Asiatics. Their caste prejudices preclude any sort of assimilation with the spirit of American institutions. They are, in fine, impossible"