5 Questions 1 through 3 refer to the following excerpt.
"[The defendants] do so excite animosity and malice [hatred) against persons of
Chinese ... descent, and that certain of said defendants ... have for the last three
months ... continue[d] to stand upon the side walk in front of, or in the immediate
vicinity of ... places of business of the complainants and other Chinese, accosting
the patrons of said Chinese, advising them that the said places of business of such
Chinese are boycotted, and directing that they refrain from patronizing them
[A]s a result of the actions aforesaid the business of... [those) of Chinese descent
have been seriously impaired, and are likely to be wholly destroyed if the same
shall continue."
Court affidavit, 1897
evidence in the excerpt can best be used to support which of the following claims