Lorenzo Sawyer to Henry Bancroft (1893)

nIf they would never bring their women here and never multiply and we would never have more that we could make useful, their presence would always be an advantage to the State. . . so long as the Chinese don’t come here to stay. . .  Their labor is highly beneficial to the whole community. . .  the difficulty is that they are beginning to get over the idea that they must go back.  Then they begin to multiply here and that is where the danger lies in my opinion.  When the Chinaman comes here and don’t bring his wife here, sooner or later he dies like a worn out steam engine; he is simply a machine, and don’t leave two or three or half dozen children to fill his place.