"GET RICH QUICKLY."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 297, 10 May 1911, Page 8

"GET RICH QUICKLY."

POLITICS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Christehurch, May 8. The encroachment of the Japanese goes in British Columbia, and less notice is taken of the fact there than is the case in Australia. Writing on this subject to a gentleman in Canterbury, a leading citizen in Vancouver says: " "I regret that it is almost impossible here to raise public opinion on any question above the level of its pocket. Real] estate and the 'get-rieh-quick-game' absorb the intelligence of the people, and as long as you don't hit their pockets they will not take any interest in anything. The moment a question threatens to cause the real estate market embarrassment everyone gets on his hind legs. When you point out that the Asiatic question is the verv one to destroy all real estate values," they toll you that by the time it is ripe they hope to be out of the country. That is the patriotism of the twentieth century Canadian. I was asked to address the Labor people here on the subject, but when it came to the point they wiene seared and refused to let me* speak). Their politics simply consist of trying to get everything for themselves and to h— with the capitalist. Directly a Labor man gets a little real estate' together he deserts the Labor people and becomes a capitalist."