o come is what alarms us. Morals are low--you
acknowledge--and your people would be better if they had a chance; but
would the chance not cost us too dearly, as the improvement of the blacks
has cost the South in crime and contaminated blood? We are sorry for
you, just as we are sorry for any plague-stricken region; but we do not
welcome you among us because of that pity.

There may not be so much sedition among the Hindus of British Columbia as
among Canadian-born Socialists, who rant of the flag as "a bloody rag";
but our Socialistic seditionists have never yet been accused of
collecting two million dollars to send home to India to buy rifles for
the revolution. Canadian Socialists have never yet collected one dime to
buy rifles. These are not my accusations. They are accusations that
have been in the very air of Vancouver and San Francisco. If they are
true, they ought to be proved true. If they are untrue, they ought to be
proved untrue; but in view of the shoutings over patriotism and of
Hopkinson's assassination, they come with a rude jar to claims grounded
on loyalty. Could Hindus who landed in British Columbia destitute a few
years ago possibly have that amount of money among them? At last census
they had property in Vancouver alone to the amount of six million
dollars, held collectively for the whole community.

Their vices may be no worse than the vices of the low whites, but if
immigration officials find that whites low or high have vices, those
whites are excluded, be they English, Irish, Scotch, or Greek.

The Hindus are British subjects, but Canada does not admit British
subjects unless she wants them--unless they can give a clean bill of
health and morals.

Canada does not regard admission as a right to any race, European, Asian,
African. She considers her citizenship a privilege and reserves to
herself the right to extend or not to extend that privilege to whom she
will.

That separation from families will excuse base and lewd morals is a view
that Canada will never admit. Her sons go forth unaccompanied by wives
or sisters to lumber camps and mines and pioneer shacks, and in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred come back clean as they went forth,
and manlier. That women should be victims on an altar of lust is an
argument that may appeal to the Asiatic--the sentiment all draped in
wisteria and lilies, of course; but it isn't an argument that will prove
anything in Canada but the advocate'