CARDINAL MORAN ON THE CHINESE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 267, 26 May 1888, Page 6

CARDINAL MORAN ON THE CHINESE.

lAidiual -Motan aimed fit Adelaide < u iQiitt toi Einope in the X.-M s - Onent. Tlie Lauhnal wai mtei \iewtd by an "Ad\eiU-ei ' leportu on the ChuiL-e question, when iu-5 Eminence '-aid he thought the colonte.- «ei«> acting in an aibitiaiy u» (Juistian spuit in piohilnting the I hine-e fioin landing m Au-tiahu lie ioimerl} held difleieni \iew-, but haung gi\ en the subject matuie coiiMdewition tie round it nece—ai \ toaltei hi" opinion 1 - I'loin what he hud *ccii oi tliel ludl-c liv thought them a model ot mdu-ti\ and thutt. .Main of ihe Euiopeun lace might take a It- -on fiom them m thi-j ie-pect with advantage, (■rout advantage was buing deu\ed tiotn the llnne-e in mun\ pait- of Au-t)ali;t whue it wa- iinpo--ible tor a white man to woik in con-.Lq'aence <>t tin chmatt. JJe knew many place- that would be vi tnely without se^etable- if not Itoi the Clnne-e, who -vi mounted ob-l<u!ta no white man would have attempted. A gieat deal of the auitalion \\as <u tiliou-, k r ot up bb v \ loafer and othei^, who would ' nob w oik thi m-the^ but put ob-tacir- m the waj of tho-e wlio woic lndu-tnou-. lie thoitfrlit the State nui 4 alwa)- impo-e lec-tnotioii.-. on the lmnuyiation ot any cla--. in then own mteic-t-. He wu- oui> tind in^ f tulL with making a jrencial rule ot e\cludnifrall C'hine-e. hueh a f-te|> «.n a highhanded pi ocetdiny In the Mine ilnection the eolonie- mif(hL-a> the> would not allow (Juinicin-5 and F t ouch to land m Au^tiaha. The ■same piinciple held good, and m -lopping the Lhme-e the colome-j weic e.xeludin^ an industrious cla^^ oi people who^e indu-try \\ch a great ad\aulage to the colonie-. The Chinese ) epiesented an older cnili-ation than the Eiuopean, and d they iccched the unpick oi Chii^tianity might become one of the gicate-t I'owei.-andgieat-(inb peoples in the world. A-> to the question whether coolie labour would be better than Chine-e, 1m Eminence stated that coolie labour meant hlave labour, while Chinese were free. A free man was cheered by the hope of 1 -, t\hile l-heie was nothing to cheer the other. Coolie laboui in (Queensland, he understood, led to demouihsing the people. Ho was Cold that in the Northern Territoiy of (^ucen-land theio was no alternatne but to employ Chinese or black labour. If this was not done the country would leverc lo its wild .state, as whites could not labour in the climate. He uiidoi. -stood that the Aineucan tieaty leferred only to tho exclusion ot Chinese from the Htates and San Francisco tor a term of years,. It would be for the colonies to ?ee the result. Australia might in many things follow in the wake ot Amciica, but should not hastily adopt legisi lation i-uited to America which might ijot ■be suitable for Au&tialia. The Clnne.se in j Australia were of a generally low type, being the scum of the lowei classes, but would be u»eful to Australia, where the country was large and the population small. Restrictions might be imposed to rest) ict the influx, but to exclude one race and let all others come in freely wa& unwise. He knew his views were unpopular, but it was an un-Clnistian thing to .-ay to the people, We reject you, not because you are unnecessary or useless, but because some idle, worthies-) men object to you on account of your usefulness. At the present time in i New South Wales there was plenty of work at remunerative wages for Europeans who wanted it at 7s 6d and 8s a day, yet numbers loafed about the streets of .Sydney and would not accept it, preferring loafing about lor j the purpose of keeping up a tiade union. They remained starving, keeping wives and families in the same condition. Tho agitation should not be directed against the importation of opium and the degradation of the poor Chinese,