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Show ABE HUMMEL TALKS ABOUT! HINDU 'Siiya His Invasion of This Country Coun-try Is (i Great and Lasting Last-ing Danger. Abe II. Hummel, the well-known lawyer law-yer of New York City, and recognized Internationally ns an authority on theatrical the-atrical law, is registered at tho Knuts-ford Knuts-ford hotel. Mr. HumincI arrived In the city Sunday afternoon from tho west on the last leg of a trip around the world, which hns taken about two years. In an interview granted The Tribune. Sunday nigh I. Mr. Hummel sounda a nolo of warning against tho admission of Hindus Hin-dus to this country, declaring thai an mrreused Influx of this class of pauper labor to tho Pad tic coast Is a far greater great-er menace than ihc influx of Chinese and Japanese. With Mr. Hummel at the Knutsford are his sister. Miss Hummel, and Mrs. S. 11. Kaffenburgh of New York City, and A. N. Kaffenburgh of "London. England. Following Fol-lowing a visit of a day or two in Salt Lake, the party will go to Yellowstone park. During his tour around tho world, Mr. Hummel has given a close personal study to the manners, habits and customs of the people and tho laws and political stains of tho most Important countries of Europo and the Orient. "As little as Is known In New York of Utah and lis wonderful resources nnd of the cleanliness and beauty of Salt Lake City's boulevards, just as little Is known by tho average Amorlcan or European Euro-pean about tho hundreds of millions of humanity existing lu tho Orient and tho far east," said Mr. Hummel, Sunday night. "No historian has as yet aptly or graphically described tho gruesome "nature "na-ture of tho poverty of our fellow men. existing under conditions which are, to put it mildly, nothing short of rovoltlng. There aro parts of India whore children have to bo taught to play. The absurdity absurd-ity of caste In that much populated country coun-try would be ludicrous If It wero not that Its effect is punishing both to the foreigner and to tho natlvo born." Mr. Hummel Is of the opinion that tho Chinese possess greater possibilities for advancement In all lines of Intellectual endeavor than do the Japanese. In this connection ho said: "Tho difference that I found between tho native Chinaman and tho Japanese Is apparent to everyone every-one that makes a study of tho characteristics character-istics of these people. Tho Chinese merchant mer-chant Is synonymous with Integrity his word is his bond. Tho Japaneso Is subtle, sub-tle, acquires the language of the Occident Occi-dent with great rapidity. There are numberless schools In Japan,, hut he Is, In splto of his education, a hlgh-cla3s copyist, and not a creator." "With regard to the Hindu Invasion. Mr. Hummol said: "Much has been said and much has been written, and much has been legally enacted regarding the prevention pre-vention of tho ingress Into this country of the Chinese and Japanese, yet there confronts us. as Grover Cleveland once aptly said, 'a condition and not a theory,' the-ory,' which Is serious tho Introduction of the Hindu Into the United Slates. Up to tho present, tho legal enactments which havo placed barriers against the advent of tho Mongolian and the native of Nippon, have not encompassed the natlvo of India, who lives on food which costs as little a that of other Asiatics In competing with tho sturdy Amorlcan laborer he would be a decided menace Laws should bo so framed as to restrict their entrance. When one takes into consideration that India has 2t'0.000,000 people, one can realize the Importance of drastic measures being taken to prevent pre-vent this country from being overrun with pauper labor of this kind." |
