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Exhibit ''M''.

Report of Address of Dr. Ross at mass meeting in opposition to oriental
immigration as reported in the San Francisco CALL of May 8, 1900:

"Professor E. A. Ross of Stanford University followed in a
thoughtful and eloquent discussion of the economic phases of the
problem. He declared that primarily the Chinese and Japanese are
impossible among us because they cannot assimilate with us; they
represent a different and an inferior civilization to our own and
mean by their presence the degradation of American labor and American life. We
demand a protection for the American workman as well as for American
products, the speaker insisted. And should the worst come to the
worst it would be better for us if we were to turn our guns on every
vessel bringing Japanese to our shores rather than to permit them
to land."

The headlines under which this report among those of other speakers
at the meeting were as follows:

WARNING AGAINST COOLIE "NATIVE AND JAPANESE.

CITIZENS IN MASS MEETING ASK PROTECTION FROM THE INFLUX OF ASIATIC
HORDES.

INVASION OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE DENOUNCED.

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