Occident And Orient Sketches On Both Sides of the Pacific volume 1
Occident And Orient Sketches On Both Sides of the Pacific volume 1
Julian Thomas
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A few Europeans and Americans have made large fortunes in China, when it was first " opened to the march of progress. " Some are still doing . So ; others living well and luxuriously here. But even as the Chinese in California and Australia are working their way into spheres of business and labour formerly held to be the exclu- sive right of Anglo-Saxons, so it is here, in their own land, and none can gainsay that they have a perfect and legitimate right to underwork, undersell, use-up, and dri...ve out the " foreign devils " who have settled on these shores against the wishes of the people, and in face of the armed protests of the Govern- ment. I never could understand what right one nation has to commit acts of trespass against another, which in no civilized country an individual can commit against a fellow-citizen. If I went to Browne, the squatter, and said, " I mean to open . A store on your run, and you and your hands must deal with me, " at the same time showing the pistol in my belt, he would 86 OCCIDENT AND ORIENT.
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