Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-05-03 | Page 6 | Hindus Are Barred

HINDUS ARE BARRED. The Dominion of Canada will con-tinuo con-tinuo to bo a white man's country, Asiatic laborers of all kinds being barred under a now interpretation of the order-in-council issued six months ago. The sailing of a shipload of Hindus from Shanghai for Vancouvor brought about tho new ruling. .The Hindus are subjects of Great Britain and claim tho right to onter any part of the empire at will. If wa romember rightly thero are some 300 Hindus in tho party on tho way over from Shanghai. They are under un-der tho leadership of ono of the best known and ablest of the natives na-tives of India, who announced his purposo of testing tho legality of tho restrictions upon Hindu immigration immi-gration imposed by tho Dominion of Canada. So far as wo are ablo to discovor, tho "rights" of tho Hindus in the premises aro theoretical, but not actual. The natural supposition would 1 bo that thoy woro f rco to enter any couutry over which tho union jack1 floats, but the' aro not wanted in New Zealand, Australia or Canada, and Groat Britain would find herself unable to forco thorn upon tho colonials ovon if she so desired. The people of California have ofton boon criticised for their determined opposition op-position to Asiatic immigration and alien ownership of land, but th3- are no more set in their ways in this regard than the pcoplo of British Columbia, whose stand against admitting tho Oriental hordes resulted iu tho order-in-couucjl which has just been given a moro drastic interpretation than whon It was issued six months ago. t is not likob' that tho band of Iliudus now on tho Pacific ocean will gain admittance to British Columbia.