The Chinese Question.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 624, 23 June 1891, Page 2

The Chinese Question.

|IO THE BDITOB-] S’R,—-In your issue of Saturday last a correspondent signing himself “ Pax ” has something to say re the Chinese, and to a certain extent ho wields his pen vigorously. Hardly, to my mind, however, does he grasp the most serious aspect the question must eventually and inevitably assume. Fair competition is allowable in every business, but the competition of the Celestial is an uneven and an unfair one in the Colonies—uneyen, because John’s surplus money is Haver spent where he resides | unfair because he recognises no fixed price, but will accept almost anything which may be offered him for bls wares, As to the Quality of his products (edible products, I mean) much has been said la previous oommuulo-’.tioaa to your paper, ana sufficient, I think, shown to deter Europeans from running the risks pointed cut. Surely the common sense cf consumers (outside cf the dangers they rua) should cause them to give the question consideration. It Is an abac lutely well known fact that the Chinaman, alter having secured a certain sum, carefully carries it back with him to the Flowery Land—'tie his, ‘twas ours, but ours no more. Let the people have sense, let them deal with those who deal with them, let tfaem at any rate render this district one to be proud of by being able to boast that it, at least, has so far given proof of its opinion that no Chinese grower or vendor of vegetables can be found within the limits of the Bay. If the Chinaman is to remain here let him do so, but allot him a portion of land upon which tq dwqll —apart from ourselves—and this further apart the better.—l am, etc., Amin liSD&kn. Jude 19.