rince in
disguise, the results will be just what they were with a poor girl In New
York four or five years ago. The results will be just what they always
are when you mistake a mongrel for a thoroughbred.

All the same, dismiss the idea from your mind that labor is behind the
opposition to Chinese immigration! A few years ago, when Oriental labor
came tumbling into British Columbia at the rate of twelve thousand in a
single year--when the Chinese alone had come to number fifteen or sixteen
thousand--labor was alarmed; but a twofold change has taken place since
that time. First, labor has found that it can better control the
Chinaman by letting him enter Canada, than by keeping him in China and
letting the product of cheap labor come in. Second, the Chinaman has
demonstrated his solidarity as a unit in the labor war. If he comes, he
will not foregather with capital. That is certain! He will affiliate
with the unions for higher wages.

"If the Chinaman comes in here lowering the price of goods and the price
of labor," said the agitator a few years ago, "we'll put a poll tax of
five hundred dollars on and make him pay for his profit." The poll tax
was put on every Chinaman coming into Canada, but do you think John
Chinaman pays it? It is a way that unjust laws have of coming back in a
boomerang. The Chinaman doesn't pay it! Mr. Canadian Householder paid
it; for no sooner was the poll tax imposed than up went wages for
household servant and laundryman and gardener, from ten to fifteen
dollars a month to forty and forty-five and fifty dollars a month. The
Italian boss system came in vogue, when the rich Chinaman who paid the
entrance tax for his "slaves" farmed out the labor at a profit to
himself. The system was really one of indentured slavery till the
immigration authorities went after it. Then Chinese benevolent
associations were formed. Up went wages automatically. The cook would
no longer do the work of the gardener. When the boy you hired at
twenty-five dollars had learned his job, he suddenly disappeared one
morning. His substitute explains he has had to go away; "he is sick;"
any excuse; with delightful lapses of English when you ask questions.
You find out that your John has taken a job at forty dollars a month, and
you are breaking in a new green hand for the Chinese benevolent
association to send up to a higher job. If you kick against the trick,
you may kick! There are more jobs than men. T