CHINESE V. ENGLISH MEN
The gallant and . erstwhiU ; , patriotic Major Brett appears t* have thrown over his conntry-f^the; bearerr of the thousand years flag^aud transferred his affections to the almond 'JejrefT strangers. Who would hive thunkit/aad after his stereotyped laudatiqus of the warlike; Britons This is how the choleric -old warrior dehimself upjn the matter :— The Chinese ; should be allowed to have the entree to this coantry. If we could go to China, why not vice verm ? The world was wide enough fo^.all;; We had done a monstrojisrpfjnstice years ago m making them import a drug which was undermining their constitution^, and afterwards tprcmgthem into-a wftr about it: And now we proposed' to k-ep them out of the country, binnest as Englishmen, and far better- work* men, and youVgot the value of your money from them.^ v ,
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Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 149, 18 June 1881, Page 3
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137CHINESE V. ENGLISHMEN Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 149, 18 June 1881, Page 3
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