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boycotting the High Level Tramways and the Star Ferry Company,
which joined the Low Level Tramway Company
in refusing to accept anything but legal tender in
the payment of fares. I think you will agree that
it would have been inequitable to have levied a
other
rate in these and quite innocent districts in order
to compensate the Low Level Tramways for losses
incurred through the action of the inhabitants of a
well defined area of the Colony.
It was manifest that within that area the non-
Chinese population had no share in the boycott.
Therefore the Chinese population of a very limited
area of the Colony were obviously alone concerned.
Again it is well known that the Chinese population
residing at a certain elevation in the city of
Victoria, which rises sharply from the water front,
do not use the Tramway at all or use it but little.
It could therefore be definitely shown that active
participation in the boycott was confined to the
Chinese inhabitants of a circumscribed area along
the route of the cars.
3. These facts were so evident that they
were not disputed by the Chinese who appeared before
the Executive Council when the question of levying a
special rate was under consideration, and it was the
reasonableness and clearness of the contention of the
Government that these inhabitants were responsible for
the boycott, that induced Chinese landlords and
property owners to exert themselves to avoid a tax
which their commonsense recognised as equitable.
There was in the investigation no room for the corruption
of the Police. Their evidence was not necessary as to
who