lumbia has immense tracts of arable land. Why not give India's
millions a chance on it as colonizers?

There is not so much sedition among the Hindus of British Columbia as
among Canadian-born Socialists, who rant of the flag as "the bloody rag."

The vices of the Hindu are no worse than the vices of the low whites.

They are British subjects and have a right to admission. Admission is
not a privilege but a right.

How can we expect good morals among three to five thousand men who are
forcibly separated from wives and children? Admit their wives to prevent
deterioration. This argument was used by a Hindu addressing audiences in
Toronto.

What right have Canadians to point the finger of scorn at the reproach of
the child wife when the age of marriage in one province is twelve years?

In the days of the mutiny the Sikh proved his loyalty. To-day the Indian
troops are proving their loyalty by fighting for the empire in Europe.

Many of the Canadians now denouncing the Hindu made money selling them
real estate in Vancouver, and expropriation is behind the idea of
exclusion.

The admission of the Hindu would relieve British Columbia's great need
for manual laborers.

Canadian missionaries to India are received as friends. Why are the
Hindus not received as friends in Canada?

Why should a Sikh not marry a white woman as one did in Vancouver? This
question was asked by the official publication of the Sikhs in Vancouver.

If Canada shuts her doors to the Hindus, let the Hindus shut doors to
Canadians.

These are not my arguments. They are the arguments of the people
advocating the free admission of people from India to Canada.

To these arguments the Pacific Coast makes answer. Likewise, the answer
is not mine:

We know that you as a people need room for colonization; but if we admit
you as colonists, will your presence drive out other colonists, as it has
done in Australia and South Africa; as the presence of colored people
prevents the coming of other colonists to the southern states? If we
have to decide between having you and excluding Canadians, or excluding
you and having Canadians, we can not afford to hesitate in our decision.
We must keep our own land for our own people.

Australia and South Africa have excluded the Hindu--South Africa's
educational test amounts to that--and that has not imperiled British
dominion in India. Why should it in Canada? The very fact there are
millions ready t