ets two dollars
or five dollars for finding this fellow a job. I have barely got the man
broken in when the leader yanks him off to another job and sends me a new
man, getting, of course, the employment agent fee for both changes."

"But why not let them come out here and work and go back?" asks the East.

Because that is just what the Hindu will not do. When he comes, he
fights for the franchise to stay. That is the real meaning behind the
fight over cases now in the courts.

"They are curious fellows, poor beggars," said a police court official to
me. "They have no more conception of what truth means than a dog
stealing a bone. We had a Hindu come in here as complainant against
another man, with his back hacked to beef steak. We had very nearly sent
the defendant up for a long term in the 'pen,' when we got wind that
these two fellows had been bitter enemies--old spites--and that there was
something queer about the complainant's shanty. We sent out to examine.
The fellow had stuck bits of glass all over the inside of his shack walls
and then cut his own back to pay an old grudge against the other man.
Another fellow rushed in here gesticulating complaint, who was literally
soaked in blood. We had had our experience and so sending for an
interpreter, we soused this fellow into a bathtub. Every dab came off
and there was not a scratch under."

"You say the Hindu is the negro problem multiplied by ten, plus craft,"
said a life-long resident of India to me. "That is hardly correct. The
Hindu is different from the negro. He is intellectual and spiritual as
well as crafty and sensuous. You will never have trouble with the Hindu,
if you keep him in his place--"

"But do you think a democratic country can what you call 'keep a race in
its place'? The very genius of our democracy is that we want each
individual to come up out of his place to a higher place."

"Then you will learn a hard lesson here in Canada."

What kind of a lesson? Again, let us take facts, not opinions!

A clergyman's wife in Vancouver, full of missionary zeal for India,
thought it her duty to accord the Hindu exactly the same treatment as to
an American or English immigrant. She took a man as general house
servant and treated him with the same genial courtesy she had treated all
other help in her home. You know what is coming--don't you? The man
mistook it for evil or else failed to subdue the crimes of the centuries
in his own bl