To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cmixa Datty News."
Si,—It is with considerable reluctance that E raise any objection to the Educational Scheme for the Chinese in these Set-Uements that is to be brought forward at the Kstepayers' Meeting on 'Tuesday. For, first, Lam heartily in favour of one principle that' underlies it, sis. that the Municipal Council ought to use a portion of the taxes paid by the Chinese to provide education for the children of the Chinese who live in the And, second, I dislike to apy position to Messrs. Richard, Pott, and Ferguson. I, with them and many others like-minded, belong to a number of Soci ud Associations having for their object the uplifting and helping of the Chinese slong all fines, physical, mental, and spiritual. It looks, therefore, like a division of counsels, and consequent loss of power, for those who are sw closely related in the same work to disagree us to the methods of doing the work. But I am convinced that the scheme as proposed is a mistake and I cannot vote fin—The scheme is too narrow in its Tt is for class only and not for the general public, Those Chinese who would benefited by it are abundantly able to pay for the education that is to be provided for them, while the great mass of the people, who need education and cannot afford te pay font, would derive no benefit from the scheme. " Class legislation is al just and oppressive, and it is unjust here to take the taxes of to confer special benefi: s on a few, who are quite able to pay for what it is proposed to give them at a merely nominal Mr. Pott's argument, that those alt apply for admission from the or wealthier classes could he detected and rejected, will not hold good in practice It will be impossible, as al] who have had experience know full well, to decide in most eases whether or not the applicant is from the Wealthy classes and should be rejected.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.