MR. DOOLEY ON RACE QUARRELS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 312, 10 January 1908, Page 4

MR. DOOLEY ON RACE QUARRELS.

in a long diswurse on the Vancouver riots, Mr. iJooley chuckles quietly over lilt comments 01 the London I'resa concerning the San Francisco outrages, lie coucluaes more seriously: - '• 1 suppose tn trutu iv it is that ye can't lake a rule an' dhraw a red line •iiro-l a map an' make much ditfrcnce oetween th' people on wan side or auomer iv th' line, li people lived on inapt* mud Ik- aisy. But they don't. 1 wudUcn t want to be a Canajeen, though tin a pleasant counthry they live in. 1 wanst -pent a tew hours there assistin' in treein' Ireland be chaain' a letterttirryer through a village sthreet, an' whin 1 come back to this here laud iv 111' free X was art*ted an' locked up ia I'Utiulo. But ye cudden't pick out a tanajeen fr'm anny other kind iv au American. They look like us, they use tlr same kind iv money, an' they talK almost as good Knglish as we do. l'olitickally they don't agree with us, but no more does Texas agree with Maine. They ain't anny rale ditTrence between th' American Americans who fought the Jap- at San Francisco an' th' Canajcen that fought thim at Vancouver. They sing '' iawd save th' King,' but -!■ wild I ii lie gave me rent an' 1 wasn't afraid I'd choke singin' it. Tis

to Ire seen that mont iv the Canajeen- who come to this counthry come ir'ni 111" part iv Canada that's most like lingland: an' w'en Americans go to Canada tlwy go to th' part that'.- most like America."

"I w<»n.lher why they don't -hake off lh' Saxon y..ke." -aid .Mr. Hennci-sy. " Wild ye want to shake off th' yoke i' a night watehman thai paid ye something f'r hi- sanices?" said .Mr. Dooley. " But what are th' Japs goin' to do if iiml««lv will let thim in!" "* What wud ye do if ivi'y time ye wint out i\ 'lures -onwbody threw a rock at " I'd -lay at home." oaid Mr. Heßnessy. "An' that." said Mr. ITooley, "may In- what th' -Taps'll have to do. He th' !'t <ks iv thing- I think t|r time is eoniin' >.!iin 'twill W- well -,' r i'.ry body to stay <i le.nn- that don't u:;n' )r- head broke."

Once more the seemingly tmsolvablt l > question of the type of canal to Ik l ml across the Isthmus of l';inam,i is up Tilldiscussion. Jf there is to be nn limit to the size of modern liattleship-. it ir- be- '• lieved that before the canal is conipli i. ii vessels then afloat will bp ton lur<r<' ' ' pass through it. The present plan* nntemplate loi-ks 10n fe«t in width at 111" ' "ttrface of the water. The British *ai ship Dreadnough, now afloat. nn'.Mti •• S3 feet in the beam, and theic are ' v • war vessels now building in tint conn'iy which will measure 85.3 feet b- am. .Tin--25,0110 ton battleship which the Anm-ii ;• : naval constructors are talking ot submitting to Congress will lueasuie oo m\ m the clear, which would leave oiuy o jwi c'earaace at the sides »t uic iocm. Furthermore the huge ocean liuers of the turbine type are getting larger and larger every year, and there is no doubt that if they go on increasing during me next few years as they have been do-ng lately, there will be numerous iilup= afloat iji IUIS, wTTen the canal is expected to be completed, too large to pass through the waterway, if present plans are adhered to. These facts have Ix-en brought under the notice of the (lovertiBieat, and the friends of the sea level type of canal are (writes a New York corresponaent) again agitating for the adoption of that system, although Congress, at the solicitation of President Roosevelt, has pronounced in favour of the lock type. It is claimed for the tea level plan that it is the only one with sufficient elasticity to meet the needs o? the rapidly, growing tonnage in marine construction. The sea level scheme would involve the construction of but one lpck, merely to offset the tidal differences "between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But if the lock system is • retained,.it .seems certain that the plans must be recast, so a« to provide for wider locks. Thia will not greatly add to the difficulty of the engineering part of the undertaking, but it is said that the change will be extremely costly