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This yellow peril has been threatening Puget Sound*, Oregon and California for half a dozen years. Indeed, it has actually been pouring in with augmented favor and force during all of that time. It is a real yellow peril from the real Orient a vital, material, bane ful incursion that is not only an economic scourge and a serious menace to American industry, but comes here by myriads, foul with disease, enfilmed with germs and alive with insidious parasites. It was a timely invasion; it was cheap; it was popular, and it was welcomed with a hospitality—that seemed to know 110 bounds. The people demanded it; those able to supply the demand, had they guessed its limitations, might still be eager to gratify the clamor of their clientele. . «At last a great avalanche of yellow peril poured its infectious largess into our tired and struggling arms. Where there was logical place and price for one, 110 less than four of the little yellow interlopers raced for fare and favor. ^ The very men who originated the invasion in response to popular clamor were overwhelmed by the appalling enormity of the result. Then Uncle Sam took a hand in the game: It was decided to transport some of the surplus Orientals to British Columbia; but there the inspectors condemned them asdiseased and not entitled to entry; they were returned to the Americans who transported them; and in order to allow them to again enter our country, Uncle Sam required the Americans to pay a considerable liead-tax upon each company of the yellow peril from over the broad Pacific. The little fellows went begging, but could not be farmed out for enough even to pay back their head-tax and the cost of a berth011 the Oriental liners. * . - _ • , n 1. *Thus has the peril at last reached the doorway of swift and certain disfavor and decline. Thus perishes tlie yellow peril that toryears has streamed upon our shores with every favoring, seasonable tide. A decided halt has been ordered; not by the government, not by the people, not by conscience, but by the inexorable law of economic advantage and the new development of an American resource now amply able to satisfactorily fill the bill.
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The Ranch
Kent, Washington, US
Sun, Mar 01, 1908
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Yongim L.
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