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- essential to the progress and welfare of this Province would not and could not have been developed successfully had it not been for the presence and the aid of the Chinese.
I have been told that one of the main [not readable] offered by the Local Legislation to the Dominion Government to build the Canadian Pacific Railway was the certainty of having the China trade from San Francisco to Esquimalt, to cross the transcontinental Railway for Canada.
I am curious to know how this can be done by hostile and restrictive enactments and an apparently innocent absence of all moral and international obligation the people of this province are determined to drive it away.
The charge of immorality alleged against the Chinese by illinformer (sic) persons is a gross misrepresentation.
The history of the Chinese people and the wisdom of travelers like Count Lz-Chenyi and M. Colquhoun proves that the Chinese are among the most moral people in the world. A comparison with other nationalities in British Columbia will show that in proportion to numbers of my countrymen will lose nothing on the score of morality.
There are upwards of nine thousand adult Chinese in this province I have ascertained that the number of Chinese prostitutes is under seventy. I venture to remark that it would be difficult to show if this is
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