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"Women to jour
the Emigration
afford argenments of weight in favor
" of putting a stop to it altogether
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On the other hand the value of
" the Clevinse as Laborers, especially
"' in Tropical Countries, the success " of certain of the Chinese fettlements, afecially in Countries inhabited
" by Malaye,
and the superabundance
" of population in China with its
" attendant evils of Fameric Pytilence
" and Infanticide, are grounds no less shong " for encouraging rather than checking
the
"the tendency to anegrate which seems to
• have taken such a strong possession of for bokning steps
"the Chinese mind, and
" similar to those which are taken in
This
* Comby to give that budency a proper
" direction and to prevent the frauds and
"
" malpractices to which it gives reje - Moreover
to
" were the British Government summarily
• forevent any blining Emigration from being "carried on to British Colonies or in British
can be little doubt that it would
" Ships there
" be drawn into other Channels and that
"Chinese Emigrants would still be carried in
" great numbers to Counkies and in Vessels in " which they would be exposed to greater " oppression than would be possible is "The Connigration
wvere
to any estent suljet