Excerpt from History of Seattle, Vol. 2: From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time<br><br>Some competent writer will one day realize the possibilities of the Chinese Question in its various aspects, particularly so far as the Pacific Coast was so long affected by the tide of immigration of the natives of the Flowery Kingdom. Agitation regarding Chinese immigration was begun almost immediately fol lowing their earliest advent to the Pacific Coast, or in the early '5os, and was continued intermittently, for nearly forty years. The owners of large tracts of land in California, and the early railroad builders there, were desirous of an increased immigration, while nearly all other classes soon became convinced that the true interests of the people would be subserved by the exclusion of this class of alien population, who could never be assimilated and whose only object in coming was to earn here what. Would be a competence in China and to return there as soon as their desire was attained. Unlike the immigrants from Europe they neither sought an asylum from oppression nor the enjoyment of the bles sings of a free government.<br><br>Dennis Kearney and his fellow sand-lotters of San Francisco, in 1877, were only more violent than their predecessors in their slogan The Chinese must go, and the culmination came in 1885 with violence, arson and murder in Colorado, Washington and other parts of the Pacific Coast.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.