"The Chinamen were terribly taxed by
the county authorities; but they always came up promptly, and without a word of complaint
paid what was demanded of them....Let me here say that I never, during all my years of
intercourse with this people, saw a single drunken Chinaman. I never saw a Chinese
beggar. I never saw a lazy Chinaman." - Joaquin Miller |
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"The Chinamen. They are not
strikers, rioters, and burners of cities....No; the Creator of us all opened the Golden
Gate to the whole wide world. let no man attempt to shut it in the face of our
fellow-man." - Joaquin Miller |