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Show - HINDUS WEST OF HERE. That California is receiving thousands of Hindus and is facing a new problem in foreign immigration was made evident to the writer on his trip over the Western Pacific. As the train neared the California line, the presence of the men of India in large numbers was noted. Whole gangs of track repairers were made up of the swarthy, turban-topped Asiatics and for 200 miles the majority of the section crews along the new road were Hindus. India has a population of 300,000,000 and were the Golden Gate opened wide to the struggling masses of that distressed country, the Chinese peril of thirty years ago would be repeated. Congressman Kahn of California, who was on the train, said that were Californians to cease to vigilantly guard against an influx of these coolies from across the Pacific, the white people of his state would be displaced by the Orientals within a few generations. |