TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1907. THE THREATENED ASITATIC INVASION
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West Coast Times TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1907. THE THREATENED ASITATIC INVASION.
The disturbance between the unemployed in Vancouver and the Japanese, has brought into prominence the very wide question of the silently aggresive policy of colonisation being pursued in the Pacific by the Eastern races, in particular the Chinese, Japanese and Hindoos. The Japanese were principally molested in the Vancouver riots, and the cabled accounts would convey the idea i.hat they, as h^rmles? traders and storekeepers, who were subjected to the indignities mentioned, had the princip 111 1 portion of the grevance on their side?. The defiance of law and order is never to I; condoned, and the measures adopted hv the Mayor and the authorities gene rally at Vancouver for the stern rcp^e 1?-' p'on of 'he lawlps° scenes ena n red, roust command approval' Nevertheless there j are two sides to every question, and tbo-e who know the conditions existing at Vancouver and in British Columbia generally, state fcbat the rioting was the outcome of an endeavour to bring the Government to a aense of the evils already in existence, and which are likely to be attendant on the vrocarbtd influx of
Japanese aLd other -Asiatics into tbe j
country. Recently a (;antf. jury reoi dent in a leading position who has just returned from a visit to the Pacific Coast of Canada, and who, while there, evidently made good use bf bis time in acquainting himself with the conditions of labour gave a deplorable account of the state of things in Vancouver. "The wonder is," he said, "not that the rioting has taken place, but that it has been delayed so long." Vancouver this authority considers to be one of the most "boomed" towns on the face of the globe, chiefly through the agency of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company who flood tbe eastern provinces of Canada with literature containing spurious and fictitious puffs as to the wave of prosperity passing over British Columbia in general, and Vancouver in particular, and inviting all to participate. Tbe result is that tbe city's population, wbieb n 1891 wa3 13,700, has, now increased to 50,000, aud a study of tbe component pirf'S of that total is instructive. Oi the 50,000 people in Vancouver, 10,000 are Asiatics, and the open door policy for them is still bringing more. According to the Canadian Year Book of 1904, of the 17,043 Chinese in tbe whole of the Dominion, 14,575 were in British Columbia. Probably by this time, with the increases constantly going on, there are over 25,000 Chinese in British Columbia. The carrying of Asiatics to Vancouver, we are told, is a monopoly enjoyed by the Canadian Pacific Railway* it has employed six steamers in r,he service, and for some time pact the Chinese and Japanese have immigrated to British Columbia at tbe rate of 1,200 per month* Tbe Chinese pay a poll tax of 500 dollars but no hindrance is put in the way of the Japanese. The effect of this unlimited introduction of Asiatics has brought about 'the rioting recently witnessed in Vancouver. The City possesses a China* town and a Jn panto wn, and both Chinese and Japanese e> ter into competition with the Europeans in almost every commercial and industrial pursuit, working generally for a much lower wage. They have entirelykcaptured the vegetable and the fancy goods trades and have entered into serious competition with the European watchmaker, jeweller, tulorand cabinetmaker and a host of other trades, They have hired their selves out as houseboy?, cooks and nurseboys, almost entirely supplanting the European domestic The logging camps and lumber mills are flooded with them, They have been s'cadily driving out the European worker, and the Hastmg's Timber Company, con trolled by the Bank of Montreal, em" I ploys them almost exclusively. They have also managed to obtain a big hold of the salmon fishery, and meanwhile ever; cent earned is hoarded and saved to send home to China or Japan, or to invest in a shop. They are consequently no benefit, but a drain to the country, and as their labour is at a premium and European work is at a discount in consequence of their being able to so greatly undercut tha European worker in wages, the white man has bad to go under, and thus Vancouver is burdened with over 3,000 unemployed. The rioting is thus explained somewhat, and is not so surprising when the facts are stated; As we have said, the Vancouver incident brings oat the dangers of Asiatic aggression throughout the whole Pacific, even to Australia and New Zealand, and might well serve as a warning to take timely action for a measure of self protection. The Times," in discussing the riots in Vancouver, put tbe matter in a nutshell in the following sentence The whole question of colonist 1 relations to Asiaiics demands an exhaustive d scu^sion between statesmen in tbe colonies and tbe Motherland." The holding of such a conference at I once might go far to prevent future and very serious trouble. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WCT19070917.2.5&srpos=165&e=-------100--101----0chinese+fruit+shop+west+coast--
The disturbance between the unemployed in Vancouver and the Japanese, has brought into prominence the very wide question of the silently aggresive policy of colonisation being pursued in the Pacific by the Eastern races, in particular the Chinese, Japanese and Hindoos. The Japanese were principally molested in the Vancouver riots, and the cabled accounts would convey the idea i.hat they, as h^rmles? traders and storekeepers, who were subjected to the indignities mentioned, had the princip 111 1 portion of the grevance on their side?. The defiance of law and order is never to I; condoned, and the measures adopted hv the Mayor and the authorities gene rally at Vancouver for the stern rcp^e 1?-' p'on of 'he lawlps° scenes ena n red, roust command approval' Nevertheless there j are two sides to every question, and tbo-e who know the conditions existing at Vancouver and in British Columbia generally, state fcbat the rioting was the outcome of an endeavour to bring the Government to a aense of the evils already in existence, and which are likely to be attendant on the vrocarbtd influx of
Japanese aLd other -Asiatics into tbe j
country. Recently a (;antf. jury reoi dent in a leading position who has just returned from a visit to the Pacific Coast of Canada, and who, while there, evidently made good use bf bis time in acquainting himself with the conditions of labour gave a deplorable account of the state of things in Vancouver. "The wonder is," he said, "not that the rioting has taken place, but that it has been delayed so long." Vancouver this authority considers to be one of the most "boomed" towns on the face of the globe, chiefly through the agency of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company who flood tbe eastern provinces of Canada with literature containing spurious and fictitious puffs as to the wave of prosperity passing over British Columbia in general, and Vancouver in particular, and inviting all to participate. Tbe result is that tbe city's population, wbieb n 1891 wa3 13,700, has, now increased to 50,000, aud a study of tbe component pirf'S of that total is instructive. Oi the 50,000 people in Vancouver, 10,000 are Asiatics, and the open door policy for them is still bringing more. According to the Canadian Year Book of 1904, of the 17,043 Chinese in tbe whole of the Dominion, 14,575 were in British Columbia. Probably by this time, with the increases constantly going on, there are over 25,000 Chinese in British Columbia. The carrying of Asiatics to Vancouver, we are told, is a monopoly enjoyed by the Canadian Pacific Railway* it has employed six steamers in r,he service, and for some time pact the Chinese and Japanese have immigrated to British Columbia at tbe rate of 1,200 per month* Tbe Chinese pay a poll tax of 500 dollars but no hindrance is put in the way of the Japanese. The effect of this unlimited introduction of Asiatics has brought about 'the rioting recently witnessed in Vancouver. The City possesses a China* town and a Jn panto wn, and both Chinese and Japanese e> ter into competition with the Europeans in almost every commercial and industrial pursuit, working generally for a much lower wage. They have entirelykcaptured the vegetable and the fancy goods trades and have entered into serious competition with the European watchmaker, jeweller, tulorand cabinetmaker and a host of other trades, They have hired their selves out as houseboy?, cooks and nurseboys, almost entirely supplanting the European domestic The logging camps and lumber mills are flooded with them, They have been s'cadily driving out the European worker, and the Hastmg's Timber Company, con trolled by the Bank of Montreal, em" I ploys them almost exclusively. They have also managed to obtain a big hold of the salmon fishery, and meanwhile ever; cent earned is hoarded and saved to send home to China or Japan, or to invest in a shop. They are consequently no benefit, but a drain to the country, and as their labour is at a premium and European work is at a discount in consequence of their being able to so greatly undercut tha European worker in wages, the white man has bad to go under, and thus Vancouver is burdened with over 3,000 unemployed. The rioting is thus explained somewhat, and is not so surprising when the facts are stated; As we have said, the Vancouver incident brings oat the dangers of Asiatic aggression throughout the whole Pacific, even to Australia and New Zealand, and might well serve as a warning to take timely action for a measure of self protection. The Times," in discussing the riots in Vancouver, put tbe matter in a nutshell in the following sentence The whole question of colonist 1 relations to Asiaiics demands an exhaustive d scu^sion between statesmen in tbe colonies and tbe Motherland." The holding of such a conference at I once might go far to prevent future and very serious trouble. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WCT19070917.2.5&srpos=165&e=-------100--101----0chinese+fruit+shop+west+coast--