DEVELOPMENT OF CANADA.
A PLEA FOR THE ASIATIC, ,"! ItUDYARD KIPLING AS A STATESMAN. ; ' i Received Oct. 22, 8,58 p,m. Ottawa, October 22. Rudyard Kipling, speaking at the Canadian Club here, urged a powerful plea, against the exolusion of Asiatics. He has everywhere been" struck throughout the Dominion with the strong, persistent cry for more help, and more people. He found Hindus employed in unskilled labor which white . declined to handle. There was not s enough white labor to supervise the - . unskilled. If Canadians proposed the ! . development of tlie country on the lines - I of a close corporation, their glory would ; pass from them. It was as a nation j r among great nations that Canada, 1 d would be judged. ' ''l4 >. The speech was greeted with cheers, o Sir Wilfrid Laurier cordially seconded! ; d a vote of thanks to Rudyard Kipling,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 23 October 1907, Page 2
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141DEVELOPMENT OF CANADA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 23 October 1907, Page 2
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