never seen, men of thirty-five and forty and forty-eight.  Does Canada desire the system of the child wife embodied in her national life?  Suppose one hundred thousand Hindu colonists came to the vacant arable lands of British Columbia.  As the inalienable right of a British subject, the colonist must be allowed to bring in his wife.  What if she is a child to whom he was married in her infancy?  The colonist being a British subject is to be given a vote.  How would Canada abolish the child wife system if Hindu votes outnumbered Canadian votes?  Forget all about the rifle fund—­the discovery of which was paid for in Hopkinson’s life!  Forget all about labor and mill owner and color of pigments!  You know now why the Oriental question is more than skin-deep.  Go a little deeper in this child-wife thing!  Don’t balk at the horror of it!  The Pacific Coast wants you to know a few medical facts.  Hundreds of thousands of children in India, age from nine to twelve, are wives actually living with husbands; and the husbands are in many cases from thirty to eighty years of age.  Anglo-Saxons regard these unions as criminal.  One-third of all children born of mothers under sixteen years of age die in infancy because of the tortures to the mother’s body, compared to which the tortures of the Inquisition were merciful.  Does Canada want that system embodied in her national life?  Under Canadian law such crimes are treated to thirty-nine lashes:  under American law to Judge Lynch.  Twenty-five per cent. of the women of India die prematurely because of the crimes perpetrated through child marriage.  Twenty-five per cent. become invalids from the same cause.  Nine million girl wives in India are under fifteen years of age; two million are under eleven.

I asked a British Columbia sawmill owner why the Hindu could not speed up with a Pole or Swede.

“No stamina,” he answered.  “Too many generations of vice!  Too many generations of birth from immature mothers; no dower of strength from birth.”

The advocates of Hindu colonization in Canada glibly advise “prohibiting child wives.”  To bar out child wives sounds easy.  How are you to know they are child wives and not daughters?  If one thing more than another has been established in Vancouver about Hindus, not excepting the leaders, it is that you can not believe a Hindu under oath.  Also British law does not allow you to bar out a subject’s wife unless she be diseased or vicious.  If you let down the bar to any section of the Hindu, teeming millions will come—­with a demand to vote.

That Canada’s continuous passage law is immoral and intolerable no one denies.  It is a subterfuge and a joke.  The day the Japanese steamship tested the law by bringing passengers direct from land of birth the law fell down and Canada had to face squarely the question of exclusion.  As the world knows, the shipload of human cargo after lying for months in Vancouver Harbor was sent back, and Hindu leaders proved their claims of a right to citizenship by assassinating Hopkinson.