To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, August 5, 1853.
Sir, — In reading over Sir J. Brooke's Journal of of events in Borneo, I was much struck with the following extract which I send you (being his opinion of the lower order of the Chinese) for l he information of my fellow settlers. •' The Chinese in this country seem to be the dregs of the human race. Falsehood is ever on their lips ; when detected in villany they think it no shame ; crime is no disgrace, and successful imposture a virtue. I have long discovered that with these people no plan of collecting revenue is so bad as reckoning by beads. When the census is to be taken, half tbe families disappear ; they retreat to the jungle, play at hide and seek, and invariably succeed in giving in their number at one half of the truth." What can we expect if our representatives vote money to import such men into this country? How can Mr. Clifford, one of the great promoters of the scheme for the importation of Chinese, call himself the Working Man's Friend, and suppose they will give him their votes ? I remain, Sir, Your obedient Servant, AN ELEiTOII.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, 6 August 1853, Page 3
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