It is not too tate now to save the situation, but five years tence when these htindved thousand" emigrants have formed. the nucleus "of imperium in tmperio, then It will be foo late, Take a leaf from the Japanese, own book and apply it resolutely, but who can apply resolutely? When a steamship: comes to Amoy from Singapore, full of returning Chinese folk, the Chinese police and the Customs oMeials are Big mighty men, swelling with im= portance and power, dictating, ordering, flaunting their authority. Let a Uttie Taiwan boat arrive and, what a change, they are all subservience.
Chinese emigrants to Taiwan are to be restricted to 50 selected labourfers each vessel arriving there. many a8 500 Chinese have yone to Taiwan in one steamer. The Japan-ere authorities have become alarmed fat the Tabour conditions which are Becoming serious due to unemployment. The emigration conditions are present severe, but they will be more stringent in the future.
The hands of every person are examined, for only strong manual labourers are wanted; all, symptomonie of the future, Returned Jabourers are not too kindly treated by the "running water" passengers: passengers, both Chinese and Japan-exe, who travel continuously on, the vessels, making @ good livelihood by Bringing goods that dodge the Chin ese Customs oF pay little or no duty fon them.
Restrlet Japanese immigration as Japan yesitiels the Chinese, That the answer; very simple, and very disastrous, for China, What is Sauce for the goose, In the Orient, is not sauce for the gander.
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