CANADA AND JAPAN
"NO HEAD-TAX INDIGNITY." CHINESE STILL BARRED. tIBESS ASSOCIATION .1 OTTAWA, August 19. Sir Wfifrid Leurier, speaking at Vancouver, promised that the Government would consider increasing the poll tax on Chinese, but would not entertain the proposal to subject the Japanese to th* 1 indignity of a head tax,, even if it involved the downfall of th e Ministry. The days were past, said -the Prime Minister, when it was politic to treat other raoefe with contempt and harshness. If economic reasons necessitated a distinction, let it be done by mutual agreement.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 20 August 1910, Page 5
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94CANADA AND JAPAN Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 20 August 1910, Page 5
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