SIR HIRAM MAXIM ON THE CHINAMAN

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 5288, 28 May 1904, Page 15

SIR HIRAM MAXIM ON THE CHINAMAN

In a letter to the "Daily Mail” Sir Hiram Maxim pronounces tho following eulogy on the Chinaman;—• Tho Chinaman is tho most skilful agriculturist that tho world has ever known; he can got more than twice as much out of the soil as any white man that ever lived; he works more hours in the day and more days m the year' than anyone living. He is tjjo most peaceful and law-abiding man to be found iu any country in the world, but, curiously enough, tho very things which are considered virtues in tbo white man are I considered vices in the Chinaman. I Jn tho United States of America it has been pointed out time and again by Chinose officials and writers that tho Chinese in tho United States of America are the most peaceful and law-abiding of foreigners to bo found in tho country. The people who wore instrumental in his expulsion were not even honest enough to tell the truth; they pretended that the Chinaman was excluded on ao. count of hia vices, but as he had no trace of what would be considered a vice in a white man, a general assortment of unspeakable vices were manufactured for the occasion, h|a persecutors evidently behoving that .the end justified the means. ,

I am strongly of the opinion that if the best, most peaceful, and law-abiding working man that the world has ever known is once introduced into Africa and his excellent qualities understood and realised he will he appreciated; Africa will manage somehow or other to profit by his matchless skill and industry, ami the Chinaman will eventually become a fixture in South Africa. Perhaps Uioro is no country in the world where he would do so much good; what a shame, then, that wo are not brave and truthful enough to treat him like a man instead of like a dangerous wild beast I,

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