MR. CREIGHTON ON THE CHINESE QUESTION.
(per press agenct.) Auckland, Friday. Mr. R. J. Creighton, journalist, formerly of New Zealand, and now in San Francisco, writes to Mr. Swanson, M.H.R., on the Chinese question as follows ; —“ I have simply to say that I examined it minutely and dispassionately. I saw it illustrated industrially, socially, morally, and intellectually, and I can conceive no greater curse to any Anglo-Saxon community than a swarm of Chinese coolies. It is more than a dry-rot. You cannot conceive of anything so utterly destructive of our civilisation, methods and results. There are more adult male Chinese In California than there are American citizens on the great register of the State, and they are coming at the rate of 1200 to 2000 a month ; while the white immigration has stopped. That means a rapid absorption of the coast hy the Chinese, who preserve their own customs, observe their own laws, practice their own idolatrous rites, and have fifty per cent, more felons in prison, in proportion to population, than any other race. This is not a pleasant state of things to contemplate. Keep it out of New Zealand.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5747, 30 August 1879, Page 2
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191MR. CREIGHTON ON THE CHINESE QUESTION. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5747, 30 August 1879, Page 2
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