THE BEST WORKING MEN.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 21, 15 September 1911, Page 2

THE BEST WORKING MEN.

PRAISE OF THE CHINESE.

The condition of progress in Chim Japan, Turkey, Persia, Egypt, and other countries was discussed at a recent sitting of the Universal Hawj Congress at the University of I-omlon. Dealing with "East and West in India," the Hon. G. K. Ookhal (Poona), stated that there was no doubt whatever that the reform measures of two yean aga arrested the growing estrangement between Europeans and Indians, and since then the situation had undergone a steady and continuous change for the bettor.

Mrs Archibald Little, formerly resident in China, said that as a democracy the United States could not compare with China. In China anyone might rise to the highest position, and the meanest coolie knew how to behave himself. It ill became England and America, who least taught manners in their Bchools, to talk of teaching civilisation to the East. The Chinese had always despised the soldier, and it was only now that they were being taught to admire them. The West had insisted on entering China, Japan, and Korei The Congress should send a protest to the people of Australia and the United States asking for fair play lor honest Chinese workmen—the most sober, industrious, peaceable, and law-abiding of the workmen of any nation of the world, (Applause.)

Mrs Annie Besant said that India asked that her children might ln> free to travel, work, and live in countries of the white races, as tha white |>eople claimed the right to live, work, and inhabit Ir.dia. It was a monstrous thingthat white men should claim to take the best-paid posts in a colored man'i country and claim at the same time the right to shut him out of the white man's country.

Mr Arthur Doisy, discussing the tinpopularity of the yellow races anions white populations, said that they hid been accused of all sorts of vices and failings, but the reason for their unpopularity was not merely that they worked cheaply hut that they worked exceedingly well, wero sober, did not require continual holidays, and, in fact, wen ideal human machines who thought.