Excerpt from Report of Committee on Mines and Mining Interests: Session of 1856 The grand proposition with them is, that California wants population; a propo sitiou to which all are agreed. But when it is urged that by admitting this class of people, we are in danger of inflicting upon posterity, if not ourselves, the most appalling and incurable evils, we are then told that they are but temporary sojourners in the Country, and nothing is to be apprehended from a permanent population of Mongolian blood. And yet these same advocates, with the coolest self-complacency and assurance, urge with great real or assumed gravity, the indispensable need and importance of an unrestricted immigration of this people, on every commercial, industrial, and even moral and physical consideration. Not only our financial interests, but the spirit of religion and philanthropy, are invoked in behalf of the cause. The true statesman must scan with philosophic eye the whole chain of causes and effects, the remote and ultimate consequences of measures no less than their immediate effects, and must not suffer himself to be persuaded too much by feelings, interests or sympathies, however worthy in themselves, which are only limited, transient and incidental. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.