51. George C. Perkins, “Reasons for Continued Chinese Exclusion,” North American Review 183 (July 1906): 16-23.


Essay by the Senator from California endorsing the continued curtailment of immigration from China. “I, too, have confidence that the moral and character of the American people will leaven the mass of our population, if we take care to exclude the inert elements of inbred criminality, degeneracy and Orientalism.”