The Dunstan Times. CLYDE, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1881.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1004, 15 July 1881, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1881.

Beneath the rule of men entirely just The pen is mightier than the sword,

A misapprehension appears to exist as to the literal meaning of our leaderette of last issue, in which we asserted that the average Chinaman was an excellent pattern for some Europeans to emulate The opinion seems to have got abroad that we are staunch advocates for introducing Chinese labor in preference to European ; and, also, that we consider the followers of Confucius to he generally preferred to our own countrymen in every respect. On these points many of our readers have misunderstood ns. What we held was bri fly this, and we might state that we still adhere to the same opinion—That the Celestials were far and away more useful to to the colony, and infinitely better citizens, than those individuals who do nothing else but loaf and lounge about the large cities the whole course of their natural lives. We did not—as many interested in the subject seem to imagine we did—unfavorably compare European minerswith Chinese who billow the same calling. Europeans work as hard—and in many cases much harder—for their living as do the Chinese ; and we could name hundreds residing in our midst who daily perform work of as arduous a nature as that transacted by the two Chinamen at present cradling for gold a short distance above the Clyde bridge. We would he very sorry to learn that our mining friends labored linger the hallucination that we had a leaning towards their common enemy,the Celestials. The latter are not a desirable race to people our fair colony with, but even their most extreme opponent cannot but admit that they are eminently superior to the majority of those that form the body known ns “the unemployed.” A hardworking, persevering man—he he a Mongolian, a European, or even an Esquimaux —is of more value to the country of his adoption than a man who either cannot or will not work for his living. A lazy man is an encumbrance to society and a burden to himself. The article referred to was hardly meant to he locally applied, hut was aimed principally at the unemployed. We may, or we may not, have a few of the mystical fraternity in onr little community : we will leave that for others who possess more knowledge of the subject than we do to say; but if the cap should fit any person we are quite willing that he should wear it.