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invented some impressive ceremony involving the drinking 

 of blood, and he made the brothers be solemnly promoted to 

 brothers and sons of the islanders, by paying two pigs and a 

 box of tobacco for the privilege. Next he married them on the 

 spot to daughters of a prominent citizen, and made them pay 

 another pig for that privilege. And when the festivities were 

 in full swing he sailed away contented and had never to come 

 back there again. 



A feeling of the specific difference between ourselves and 

 strangers in our country is the cause of more hard feeling 

 than economic objections to these strangers. And this is the 

 more true, when we are ashamed of our feeling of superiority 

 or of difference. What makes people ashamed of avowing, 

 that they do not want great numbers of Chinamen or Hindus, 

 to come into their country because they are too different to be 

 assimilated ? Partly it is due to a lack of insight, but mainly, 

 I think, to a professed or real belief in the brotherhood of men, 

 which makes people try to find the reasons for their aversion in 

 a fear of the economic disturbance which the immigrants 

 will cause. 



We often read, that there would be no objection to the im- 

 migration of Japanese in California, if Japan at home had 

 labour-unions and a resulting high standard of living and of 

 wages. Some authors emphatically deny that "race" is at the 

 bottom of the aversion, these people simply corner our labour- 

 market, they will oust our people from their place in industry 

 and trades. 



All over the East-Indies we meet an objection to Japanese 

 immigrants, which, curiously enough, is explained as to be due 

 to the opposite reason, namely to a fear that these people 

 will draw to them all the trade and capital. This is the objec- 

 tion made to Jews in Russia and to Arabs all over the 

 East. 



The real cause of the objection to such immigrants roots in 

 the feeling of strangeness. These people do not mix well. They 

 are not of our species and do not want to become of our spe- 



