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Sympathy and patience - nor even in nine cases out of ten does it exist - of residents under the British flag, but simply of the refuse population of the opposite Provinces, and Piratical banditti, who hang about the town and harbor. Kidnapping and robbing when a chance presents itself. Hence there is no moral obligation to undertake what would be here a Quixotic task of reforming by law Criminal Code and disciplining the migratory refuse of many millions of Chinese. What need is simply to deter them from coming here at all, and to send them back when they do come in such circumstances as to deter them from returning.
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Yea, though the actual reform of the criminal is not and cannot constitute here so prominent a concern of the Government as at Home - the very cleanliness, order, and discipline of the Gaol which in those respects under the management of Mr. Douglas may vie with the best conducted establishment in England - does no doubt exercise a useful and improving effect. Nevertheless, though I regard such collateral result with satisfaction, I feel that self preservation is, and must long be the leading principle of the Criminal Code here.
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Our dealings with the Chinese have fortunately been greatly simplified by the extreme dislike which the Chinese entertain of...
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Sympathy
and patience - nor even in nine cases out of lew dow it exists of residents under the Birlish flag, but simply of the refuse population of the oppiate- Provinces, and Piratical bandilli, who hang about the loww and harbor. Kidnapping and robbing when a chance presents itself Hence there is no moral obligative to -
undertake what would be here a Quixotic
task of reformings by
aw Criminal Code
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and discipline the migratory refuse of
Many
millions of Chinese. What
need is simply to deter them from coming yes here at all, and to send them back when they do come in such circumstances as to
deler them from returning.
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Yeh though the actual reform.
of the criminal is not and cannot-
Constituto here so
of the Government
a. Cineern
prominent
as at Hime - the
very
cleanliness, order, and discipline of the Gaol which in those respects under the managerment of Mr. Douglas may vie.
with the lush conducted establishment
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in
England
useful and improving effect. Nevertheless though Tregard such collateral result
with satisfaction, Ifeel that self preservation is, and must long be the leading finciple of the Criminal closes here.
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dealings have fortunately been greatly, simplified by the extreme dislike which the chinese entertain of
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