Unacceptable Chinese

            How to keep the objectionable Oriental element, and indeed the scum of Europe, out of Canada is a question which is agitating the public mind at present.  It may seem rather late in the day to start an agitation of this sort, as those against whom it is aimed have secured a footing in the country.  This is particularly the case in British Columbia, where Chinese and Japanese are conspicuously numerous.  The great amount of railway work of late under way, has added another numerous class to our already large alien population – we allude to the Italian navy.  These peoples, or three classes of people, do not assimilate with our population.  They live to themselves and for themselves, and have nothing in common with the rest of the people.  Their ways are not our ways.  To check this undesirable immigration or to lessen the number of these fellows now in our midst, is a work which must be undertaken with systematic determination and pushed to a successful conclusion – that is, if the country is not to be overrun by these worthless classes.  Capt. Clive Phillips Wolley, an unsuccessful candidate for parliamentary honors in one of the island constituencies, suggests that they be compelled to live in all respects as whitemen, and “they will soon turn from the country as being too expensive for them to live in.”  The suggestion is a good one.  These people are dangerously unsanitary in their habits.  They herd together in hovels that a whiteman would not use for his cattle, and thus endanger the public health, while they bring with them all the vices and none of the virtues of their native land.  If by enforcing the sanitary laws of the country these uncleanly people can be kept out by all means let the sanitary laws be vigorously enforced.