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185 is refused us, on the fine pretext that, according to the Constitution, two races have the right of naturalization: the white and the black; so we, the yellow race, have not!...
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186 “They would have to prove first that their ideal is higher than ours.” “Not at all! It is sufficient to see whether they are essentially different and incompatible.” “To go into...
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187 of his race, he expressed himself forcibly against the claim of the Canadians to be sufficient unto themselves. “Canada for Canadians! is their cry: I wish they could be taken at...
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188 is far from negligible, is Japan's firm intention to have her subjects respected everywhere. Pleased to see the discussion ended to his advantage, Mr. Kaburagi enlarged on considerations of a more...
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189 the heavy-tonnage boats to which they offer either a highway or harbors sheltered from all peril. To the left the track skirts the unfenced virgin forest, the reality as called up...
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190 incoherence; I meet the most dissimilar types in the street. In the tramway cars that take me out to distant suburbs and bring me back by a different way, I hear...
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191 They told me about the recent visit of Prince Fushimi and sold me post cards portraying the enthusiastic reception he received at the hands of his compatriots. They showed me their...
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192 them. He declares his confidence in the authorities of Vancouver and Ottawa; and adds that, for the rest, he has requested his Government to abate the emigration. This last fact shows...
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193 and Japanese companies had violated the spirit of the treaty of January, 1907, conferring on the subjects of both countries the reciprocal right of entrance, travelling, and residence. The abuse was...
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194 Hayashi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, confirming this courteous arrangement, was read to the Parliament of Ottawa in January, 1908, and since then Japan has indeed tried to limit the number of...
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195 yellow race? Did not members of the Trade and Labor Unions of Canada, met together in a congress at Winnipeg but a few days after the Vancouver troubles, the eighteenth of...
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196 the white races, and official statistics tell us that of this number 120,779 came from Great Britain and Ireland; 52,652 from Europe and Iceland; and 74,607 from the United States. The...
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197 CHAPTER IX THE MOST AMERICAN OF AMERICAN CITIES: SEATTLE A FORTUNATE CORNER OF THE GLOBE: THE STATE OF WASHINGTON—ITS CHIEF CITY, SEATTLE—MATERIAL AND MORAL PROSPERITY—DISCONCERTING ACTIVITY —A BUSY BISHOP—MOVING OF CHURCHES...
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198 of man, like a betrothed who is aware of the value of her fortune and the worth of her charms. Man, in our days, has known how to respond to the...
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199 of the world. In 1906, 869 large vessels of 1,442,405 tons entered the port of Seattle, and 849 ships of 1,388,950 tons departed from it; 1,613,981 passengers either came or went;...
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200 $650,000 worth, and furnished drinking water from a plant that had cost $4,250,000. Far from neglecting moral welfare for the material, Seattle possessed 39 public schools, amounting to $2,217,000 worth of...
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201 poor waifs and strays unable to earn a living on account of weakness, illness, extreme youth or old age, or perhaps a lack of knowledge of English; and the chaplain of...
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202 I was anxious to get my mail, which I had not received since leaving St. Paul. In spite of the distance, I was able to reach my destination in a few...
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203 up, all the rooms are already rented. As, after, erecting the steel framework, the top stories are finished first, it is not unusual to see these inhabited (they are reached of...
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204 hospitality, as he was but camping out in a rented house scarcely large enough for him and his three vicars; for he is rector of his own cathedral. His own residence...
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205 Gonzaga College, a three-story brick building measuring a hundred feet by fifty feet deep, was moved to four blocks away, and they took advantage of the opportunity to turn the northern...
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206 “They help quickly and actively in the beginning,” says Bishop O'Dea, “but later, it is almost impossible to get a quorum; some are in Chicago, others in Europe, and they all...
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207 widening and levelling of the streets. In order to widen them, they either cut a slice off the front of the abutting buildings or, if there is room behind, they are...
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208 a great many buildings: four blocks of theatres and new hotels. As to the earth that lay between these two extremes, he would carry it to the shore, where he would...
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209 directing the stream of water, washed into the fiord, all by himself, what remained of the hill. On the way home, I saw the two fine hotels that the ingenious Moore...
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210 State of Washington, is shown by their number alone; there were 221 in 1905; 265 in 1906; in 1908, in spite of the panic, they numbered to 272 and received twenty-five...
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211 very close to Asia, and offers, over a surface of more than six hundred miles, all the advantages of an inland sea, while, thanks to its relative narrowness and many windings,...
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212 In very truth, it requires an effort not to let oneself be won over by the enthusiasm of the happy citizens of Seattle, and one will gladly grant them that, the...
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213 CHAPTER X THE NORTHWEST. TACOMA. PUGET SOUND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NORTHWEST—AUDACIOUS RAILROADS—PROSPERITY OF THE YOUNG STATE OF WASHINGTON—THE CITY OF TACOMA: ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT, DESCRIPTION—A MISSIONARY OF PREHISTORIC TIMES —ALPINESQUE HORIZONS—AN...
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214 The faith of even the most confident people of the world did not go so far as to believe in such an adventurous project. Seeing them push their line hundreds and...
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215 ing the road and buying up other companies without issuing bonds. To-day the Great Northern stretches its network of rails from the Great Lakes to the ocean, from Chicago to Seattle,...
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216 Middle West,—Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Iowa), where they have benefited by the recent discoveries of science, and are already imbued with the rapid methods and conquering spirit of America. If one...
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217 About three hundred thousand settlers, who might be twenty times as many, exploit the resources which nature offers spontaneously or yields to their labor: according to figures, which on an average,...
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218 progress it will suffice to say that it had 500 inhabitants in 1880, and more than 100,000 in 1907; that its property was estimated at thirty millions, and its bank transactions...
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219 any other city in the world; refines more ore than any other city west of the Rocky Mountains; mills more flour than any city west of Minneapolis and Kansas City; it...
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220 despoiled tribe objected vehemently, and was not appeased until the Government paid it a large indemnity, —I hope that it was not entirely consoled thereby. The three cars of our little...
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221 In twenty years! Yet Mr. Urbain Gohier is one of those who have best understood American activity. How could he assign it such a long delay? I went to Tacoma five...
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222 The priest, Father Hylebos, exercises also the funtions of Vicar General. He and Father Kauten of Seattle are the oldest priests of the diocese, and it seems very strange from the...
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223 from it and carried them to their mothers who killed them between their teeth and then threw them away. ‘That is dirty,’ I said to them at first. “‘They are not...
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224 the tourist as the most beautiful ones of Tyrol or Switzerland. Lakes, forests, torrents, waterfalls, and glaciers,—nothing is missing that makes up the splendor of Alpine scenery; and the view from...
