Long patient lines of frightened Chinese stood in front of the customs house at Nogales last week and tried to get into the U. S. Arizona jails all along the border were filled with them. Into San Francisco harbor came 49 Chinese merchants on the Panama steamer El Salvador. Their money was gone; they were gloomily resigned to returning to Hongkong and poverty.
There were until last week about 15,000 Chinese in Mexico.* They are not coolies. Most of them are prosperous, hard-working shopkeepers and farmers. In the northwestern states of Sonora...
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