ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY — WRIGHT, SMITH. l6g 



associations at Chicago in last December. This invitation I accepted, 



and in the course of my address I said : 



It should be remembered that the really important work of the Department of 

 Economics and Sociology of the Carnegie Institution is a great collection of mate- 

 rials which will be available for the historian if anyone desires to write a uniform 

 history, for in order to be history the work will require a unity of thought which 

 only single authorship can give * * * We realize fully that we are not going 

 to cover the ground in a thoroughly exhaustive way, and that much must be left 

 not only for the historian, but for the economist. We do intend to place the 

 largest possible collection of materials in the hands of both, treating these mate- 

 rials we collect from the economic point of view — that is, the public welfare. This 

 is our fundamental thesis ; this constitutes the difference between the historian 

 as such and the economist, who uses history as an adjunct. 



Smith, Mrs. Mary R., 86 South Park, San Francisco, California. 

 Grant No. 194. Study of the history of Chinese immigration to 

 the Pacific Coast. $1,000. 



Abstract of Report. — During the past year the investigation into 

 the history of the Chinese in the United States has reached the stage 

 of organization of material. The first two months were spent in read- 

 ing the reports and documents of the California legislature for fifty- 

 five years ; the next four in reading the debates on the subject in the 

 Congressional Record (1868-1904) and an immense number of com- 

 mittee reports, the correspondence of the State Department with 

 China, etc. ; the next two in reading parliamentary papers and English 

 books on the "coolie" trade and the emigration of the Chinese to 

 western countries, which began in 1849. In this mass of hitherto 

 almost unused material have been discovered facts of great import- 

 ance in their bearing on the expediency of Chinese immigration, some 

 of which have been overlooked heretofore and some of which have 

 not been given proper weight. 



The work has just begun of interviewing the Chinese themselves, 

 to discover their motives in coming to this country, their attitude 

 toward a republican form of government, whether they wish to return, 

 and, in general, the degree to which they have become Americanized 

 in habit and feeling. There is also a variety of material constantly 

 coining to light concerning the effect of exclusion upon industrial 

 conditions, upon the amount and supply of labor and capital, and the 

 amount and kind of white immigration to the Pacific Coast. 



