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will
will bring about Voluntary
Emigration from this
Country. For we may
532
money in the first instance,
but, the tide once set
Glowing, The Colonies will
no more want for hands
Than Singapore, Batavia, Australia or California.
On the other hand,
the objections to Contract
Emigration & the difficulties,
in its way
increase..
I should be well
pleased if A. M. Govt
determined to tell the
Govt of China grantly
& without condition that
Emigration to our Colonies
under Contract was
not. So far
as we & the
French are concerned,
the Chinese have the
standing grievance that we rejected the Convention. They have for the last few years
been pleading
the ill-treatment of
Coolies in Cuba & Peru
as an
additional
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for abiding by the
conditions which we
objected to as too restrictive,
rejected & they will not modify
these unless, as may
any day happen, they
are