BILL RESE-BViSD FOR THE KING'S

NZ Truth, Issue 100, 18 May 1907, Page 1

BILL RESE-BViSD FOR THE KING'S

tic legislation of British .Columbia is a cablegram ;m'ontiomng the dangerous movements ol , discontent among the peoples of India. This cablegram is as follows :— TROUBLE HT BENGAL.

LONDON, Saturday.'-— Considering that the. lmmigration Bill recently passed by the Legislature of British Columbia is chiefly intended to" exelnde Hindoos and Japanese, and that it violates the Anglo- Japanese ,to -which Canada is a party, Mr. James Dunsmuir (Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia) has reserved the measure for the Royal, assent. There is v no good reason to believe ilh-ii ' Lieutcnant-G-overnor -Dunsmuir does not li-aow perfectly well what ha is doing, or -..that the action taken by. him is not strictly m. accord with the ■-' -instruction, received by him, which instructions embody the views of the ruMng cliques m London as to what is, or is^. not, m. harmony with "•Imnprial ifdeals." The foot is that the British 'Empire has become, m the main,".a n Asiatic Empire, and, although its i&over ! nini:e»nt is m the haii'd's of white people, there exists m t3^oSE3£B£iaOsi'cl€® a decided dread Wtfmmx^mtinj tiling. . that might dangerously offend the British subjects, or slight the Asiatic allies,of the British', bourgeoisie. There exists m British official circles little aeal, or even simulated sympathy with our White Australia ideal, for nidst British' subjects ares colored men, , and, J>q a considerable extent,, Brit- • am is/I>hc :: dependency of an "Asiatic Power. . ' ' That Britain. i& how the dependent of am. Asiatic Power has „ been carefully covered up by the plutish Press, which, on .the . principle that "birds of a feather flock together, "has never anvthfep; to say against the pernicious and predatory proclivities and peculiarities of the British bourgeoisie. Capital- is now cosmopolitan, •rind, , there, .is much.Mtttermimgli'ng of 'the • initer-ests of the capitalists of Australia with those of Great Britain..' Tiiers. is also a close connection 1 t*tweeh Hh:e. capitalists of "the High l^iu.auce" and the ?officia,l clique that is engaggd' m baitteaiinfc upon, apd ' bl^edihg, the itiifdrtunate natives -of Jixdia.-,-. r Thus'it is- that we hear nothing 'of'/Un© Jfumiliafyng position m proud^onoe proudV- England has .pl-aced herself 'by becoming-, as far as her Asiatic possessions are concerned, the dependency of an Asiatic . Powder,, and that Power Japan. • .' * • Th« treaty to which th« Lieuten-antrG-o'vern'pr of British so portentously referred places England m a r»os,it«ion of, dependence upon Japan wdth regard, to liwlia and other v As^a;tic possession of Great- Britain. British ' wars-liips have been with- " drawu from OWna seas, m order that the duty hitherto performed by them may be 'don© by Japanese warships, and thus Australians are placed m a of humiliation, for should occur m Australian waters, iw-ith a hostile Power, the only assistance within a comparatively easy distance would be that obtainable from the Japanese warships. Austra* lia has ntoclaiitted' to the world its belief m the' superiority ef the white race, yet, m its hour of need, it might: toe seduced to the necessity. of calling for aid, not upon a,n allied white nation, -but upon one of the peoples wlibm our Immigration Acts were intended to exclude from tins country. Closely allied m interest to : ftiej ©ablegram' -rtlatiDgf^O itfe© i/yrAWAeia-.!