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Show I , assssasBSSsssssssssssssssBS EKGLISH GO VERHilEUT DEFENDS CHINESE LABOR nomie necessity therefor. The ministry had adopted the only alternative to bridge the transition period until the blacks had Increased sufficiently to All the demand for unskUled labor. The Government wa well aware that the polfcy would be unpopular and that It wa open to misrepresentation, but It hardly expected such gross misrepresentation. misrepre-sentation. Injustice and exaggeration a the opposition had indulged In. Continuing, Mr. Lyttleton, referring to the opinion expressed on the subject by the Australian Government, pointed out that In 1880 Queensland passed an act to bring Indentured labor from the Pacific island and the late Lord Kim-be Kim-be rly, when colonist secretary, sanctioned sanc-tioned this act in 1880. Mr. Lyttleton further said the agitation agita-tion on the part of the opposition wa merely for party purposes, but possibly the statesmen of 1880 were wiser than the distinguished gentlemen now occupying oc-cupying the front opposition benches. Defending Chinamen against the charge of Immorality, Mr. Lyttleton read a letter from the bishop of British, Columbia, saying, that the Chinamen were In no way a debauched community, commun-ity, but lived quietly and soberly. There wa no evidence that they imported im-ported new or despicable vice. The policy .of. th Government In South Africa, the secretary explained, wa one of development. A fair portion of the product of the mine would be used in maintaining th educational Institutions, Institu-tions, the Judiciary and the civil service at the highest standard. The prosperity of British Columbia and California, Mr. Lyttleton asserted, wa based on gold mine 'won by Astatic Ast-atic labor. , In conclusion the secretary warmly defended High Commissioner Mllner against the charge of pandering to the miaeowner and said he hoped the Gov- LONDON, March 22. In th House of Commons yesterday the Liberal leader, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, moved hi vote of censure, presented March 16th. to the effect thl house disapprove disap-prove the conduct of hi Majesty Government Gov-ernment In advising th crown not to disallow the ordinance tor the introduction intro-duction of Chinee labor In the Transvaal" Trans-vaal" ' ' i Sir Henry eald nothing the Government Govern-ment had done alnc the close of th South African war had so sorely tried the people of this country a it sanction sanc-tion of th introduction of Chines labor into South Africa, If the new departure de-parture wa not checked It would b a source of future weakness, not only to th Transvaal, but to th - whole . of South Africa. It wa Impossible to conceive k greater departure from the principle by which Great Britain had hitherto made her way in the world than the importation of alien as the bondsmen of mining speculator. . The European In South Africa, Sir Henry declared, were by m large majority ma-jority opposed to yellow labor and the object of hi motion . was to atop tha Government' .policy . in its earliest stage.' The Liberal leader thought nothing but averting a possible catastrophe could Justify the Chinese labor ordinance. ordi-nance. At the time of the war the Government Gov-ernment declared it was waged in the Interests of white labor, but the British Brit-ish workman wa now being snuffed out by the Chinese. It was the biggest scheme for human dumping since the "mlddler passage" was abolished. Sir Henry concluded with dissecting the ordinance, laying special stress on the provision to the - tfTect that any one harboring a ' deserting . Chinaman would be treated as a receiver of stolen goods. If this did not constitute slavery, slav-ery, he said, th difference was indistinguishable. indis-tinguishable. Colonial Secretary Lyttleton, Lyttle-ton, replying Indignantly repelled the allegation that the Government was favoring fa-voring slavery. The Government, he asserted, had been guided by the overwhelming over-whelming sentiment in the Transvaal in favor of Chinese labor and the eoo- |