CO129-070 - Public Offices - 1858 — Page 86

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"Women to jour

the Emigration

afford argenments of weight in favor

" of putting a stop to it altogether

4

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

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