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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 139, 6 March 1908, Page 9

■ "Raco prejudico counts for littlojin tho Transvaal''(say s' thb "Titties") "so long as tho' 'Asiatic, is merely a Cooliovdoing work for j tlio, capitalist,' which tho.whito liiim docs ■aiot' cara to undertake,. and " doing it dirt cheap. .'l'liat is'business.' > But wlien ' tho -Asiatic becomes storekeeper, commission ■agent, baker, t'ailbrJ 'shoema.k6rj'and,;iii fact, anything, ami : 'dvbrything,' making money at :theni alls tli'cn ho is hated ;\vith ah unspeak- " ablo hatred,', which 'is .also;business. It is most regrettablb that ! ho should'not remain content' with . being a coolie, but his ambition is Ixmndloss,' possibly becauso we hare taught him tho absurdity of tlio casto system and tho , porfcctibility of man. 'So hoincurs tho business hatred, far deeper and more deadly . than raoo hatred, tho ' namo of whieh .it borrows because raco. hatred can bb represented, as an-ordinance of nature, primal, inexorable, and rooted in the order of things. Tliat business hatred is what wo havo to deal with in all theso cmos of race difficulty, for tlioro is lio raco difficulty,, until it arrives.