CHINESE SLAVERY ON THE RAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8116, 22 May 1906, Page 3

CHINESE SLAVERY ON THE RAND.

TO THE EDITOB. Sin, —The eable you publish to-day is too much of a tit-bit to be allowed to pass without comment. " Six Chinese in the Transvaal applied for repatriation." And this, sir, atter the tons of stulV published by Liberal papers, and spokeu by Liberal candidates and political Free Church ministers during the recent election at Home. Why, every Liberal platform rang again Willi denunciations of the liorrpble slavjiy a'lowed to exist on the Rand ! Every Nonconformist minister of passive res'-tance fame rushed once more from bis much-neglected eongrc-j nation to howl in Exeter Hall at the iniquitous Tory Government! And now everybody is able to sec what some people could see all the time—that the whole thing was one huge sham and farce. The mo.i.ent these Liberals had managed to pull themselves into power by aid of the Chinese pigtail, they used very different language in regard to Chinese labor in the Transvaal; and this cable completes tho miserable fiasco by showing that all the time there were but six Chinese who, having made what to thorn was a pile of money, wanted to get back to their mothers at a cheap rate.—l am, etc., W.G. May 21st, 1906.