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A PAGE FROM THE PAST

HONGKONG'S PETITION OF 1894

SOME OF THE CRITICISMS PASSED

•UPON IT.

KADA INUABY 2779, 1918,

7 of them. It has no history of tradi- tiang ho pound of old settlement or of polities!

que and constitutional rights, otomily no indigenous popula. sion man, if I understand right, it has few liliong residents, whether European

15. To sum up, the petitioners ask nominally that Hongkong should be given self-government, and an elective system. In my opinion the place and its circum- stances are wholly unsuited for what is proposed.

perial intereste, on the borders of a An Imporia Station with great Im- foreign land, the nucleus of wide reaching it appears to me, be kept under Imperial Britash intereste in the Far East, must, protection and under Imperial control.

perhaps a fair account of Hongkong and its fortunes à British The following extracte from Hengkong taken by and for the British Crown to Colony to any that 60 years ago it was Sessional Paper No. 28 of 1820 are conserve Imperial purposes and to safeguard tinuations of those published yesterday British trade in the Far East,

(Despatch from the Secretary of State: Holding commanding position the In saving this much I am assuming that

To the Governor.)

month of the Canton river, endowed by the self-government would be worthy of Downing Stroot,

nature with fine harbour, which has been the name, and that the elective system August 3rd, 1894

carefully kept as a free port, like the would include all ranks of the community SIR-I have the honour to acknowledgements, strongly protected by an Imperial Those who framed it and signed it would, sister Crown Colony of the Straits Settle but this is not what the Petition demands the receipt of your despatch No. 133 of gar and British ships of war, it has gather, desire to place the power in the 5th of June last enclosing a petition owed prosperity to these advantame, the hands of a select few, and to constitute addressed to the House of Commons by as to the policy of the Imperial a small oligarchy, restricted by the lines various residents at Hongkong praying Government, and to the fact that being of race. To any such change I am op for an amendment of the constitution or only guarded, it has attracted a large posed, I consider that the well-being of the Colony,

Suprat, it

a the large majority of the inhabitants is and British rule their lives and their more likely to be safeguarded by the property have been safe

Orown Colony system, under which, as far or race, than by representation which as possible, ao distinction is made of mank would leave the bulk of the population wholly unrepresented,

2. This petition was forwarded to you by Mr, Whitehead, Member of the Legis lative Council, and though, among hir colleagues in the Council Mr. Keswick and Mr. Belilios have refused to sign it, it bears the signatures of Mr. Chater and Dr. Ho Kai, both Members of the Council, of Mr. Jackson, Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and of other leading residents, I am therefers bound to assume that it is the matured conviction of at least a considerable pra- portion of the most influential members of the community that constitutional changes are desirablo at Hongkong and that for the present Crown Colony System should be

substituted HOTE measure of self- government. It is my duty to examine the arguments which have been brought forward, with care and attention; and should be wanting in courtesy if I did not give a full answer to a petition which is far reaching in its scope, and which has been strongly supported.

that it has prospered as a Crown Colony I should be inclined to judge not merely but that it has prospered in great mea sure because it has been a Crown Colony,

(0) It may, however, while the Crown Colony system was suited be contended that to the infancy of the Colony, it is now time that a larger measure of self-govern ment should be conceded;

Hongkong will cease to be a Crown I can therefore hold out no hope that Colony,

16. It remains to consider whether any step can be taken which, while not inter I therefore propose very shortly to ex-fering with the Crown Colony system, amine the separate points as to which the would alightly modify the existing con- petitioners suggest that some concession stitution in the direction in which the should be made.

(10.) They ask in the first place for British nationality in the Legislative the free election of representatives of Council of the Colony.*"

Thoy muy mean that the voters should be The words are somewhat ambiguous, of any nationality, European, American, Asiatic or Chinese, provided that the re- presentatives for whom they vote aro. of 3. The petitioners have addressed them British nationality. The torm British selves to the House of Commons, as they nationality again may be taken to mean have of course every right to do. From either British subjects of all nationalities this it is natural to infer that they con- Or simply persons who have been born or eider that they have grounds for dis

are the children of those who have been content which the Secretary of State is born in the United Kingdom. I assume, unwillin or unable to remowe and that however, that what the words are intend- they wish to emphasise in a suitable anded to convey is that the English, Scotch reasonable manner the objections which and Irish in Hongkong should elect repre- they feel to the existing stem

caves of themselves to the Legislative is obvious from the figures which have Council. If this is the meaning then it been given above that considerably more entirely excluded from the franchise, that than nine-tenths of the population will be Europeans who are not of the category described, and Americans will be excluded as well as Chinese and that among these British residents who alone will be, it is presumed, antitled to vote, the civil cle ment, come proportion of which moreover consists of Government officials, will be swamped by the miltary and nava element.

4. They ask that subject to Imperial checks and safeguards, they may be granted-

tives of British nationality in the (a)" The freo election of representa Legislative Council of the Colony (b) A majority in the Council of such

elected representatives, (e) Perfect freedom of debate for the Official Members with power to vote according to their conscientious con- victions. (d) Complete control in the Council

ovor local expenditure." (e) The management of local affairs.” (A consultative voice in questions

of an Imperial character " They quote the Colonies of Malta, Cyprus Mauritius and British Honduras as enjoying more liberal form of govern ment than that under which they are themselves living at Hongkong. They day Mirt W. O. Pammore raised the Colony to its present position of importance. They claim the common right of Englishmen to manage their local affairs and control the ex- penditure of the Colony where Imperial considerations are not involved."

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MF Underwood

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Mr Welchall

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petition points,

There appear to be three practical sug tion gestions which are worthy of considera

(a) Increasing the number of the, Unofficia! Members in the Legislative: Council.

AUSTRALIAN WHEAT.

ENTIRE CROP RESERVED FOR MOTHERLAND.

THE QUESTION OF TRANSPORT

ificent wheat crop should go to t In order to ensure that Australia's ma United Kingdom thero at reaso uble prices, the Australian Comrada vont and States Govermente will buy the enti wheat crop, ship it to England, and have sold there by Australian Governme ever produced, and the wheat is equal agents. The orop is the best Australia b quality to any grown elsewhere

6,000,000 tons of wheat annually, abe The United Kingdom imports near het, per head of the population, a about a tenth of this was coming fro Australia before the war. But the enti wheat production of Australia is not the war was only about 1,000,000 tons, tw 3,000,000, tone, and the total export befo thirds of this coming to the United Kin dom, and much of the remainder to Fran and handling Australia's wheat out it I and Italy. This great achame for financi

piro is the work of Mr. Hughes, Premier year in the interests of the Brish E the Commonwealth and the control at t Antipodes will be in the hands of a co the State what Board of Coin mol

while a London will regulate the sales. Farmers Australia will receive as a bushel on county and a further payment when all a counts have been settled,

The chief problem in connection wit (6) Introducing an Unofficial element Elder, Smith & Co., and Messrs. Gibi this great enterprise is freights, Mess into the Executive Council, (c) Creating a Municipal Council. Bright & Co have been appointed exe. points, I ara not inclined to add to the fore only vessels chartered by them will

17. As regards the first of these three ive charterers of vasses for the transpo of the Australian wheat crop, and ther number

the Unofficial Members without allowed to leave Australian ports wit at the same time increasing also the number of Official Members, for in a wheat. Committees formed in ustral Crown Colony there must be a very dis and Londen will attend to the purcha tinct preponderance on the Official side,

and sale respectively," said a member of and that the natural result of evenly great shipping firm to a representative. balancing the numbers of Officials and The Standard.

"The responsibility Elder, Smith & Co., and Gibbs, Brig Unofficials is friction and irritation. I can judge, no strong objection to invessels. One shipowner told me to-day th With the proviso, there is, na far as & Co. will be limited to chartering creasing the numbers of the Council, he would lose £15,000 by sending a certa poses the number is already sufficiently for freight he named, which was neve except that for practical working pur ship to Australia to fetch wheat at a pri large. If, however, an addition is madetheless above what he was offered, but it is difficult on equitable grounds to was prepared to suffer this loss nut resist the conclusion that another Chin representative should be appointed. On simple patriotism. This gives some idon the other hand, this is contrary to be the demand there is for freights. wishes of the petitioners as far as I understand them; and Mr. Keswick Wu, in his interesting and temperate letter, which is enclosed in your despatch, It may be said that the naval and miladvocates the appointment of an addi tary force, should be debarred from voting tional Unofficial Member to the Legislativo in the Colong, but the objection would tion to the Legislative Council of a on the ground that they are not resident Council, strongly deprecates the addi- apply atao, though possibly in a lesser second representative of the Chinese," degree to the civil population Indeed, The balance of argument therefore over and above any other arguments which appears to be against any change in the can be urged against representative gov present number and

comple

·SOME FREIGHT FIGURES,

"The British Government hos during t war requisitioned many versely for A miralty transport at a fixed time rate. 11s, per month on the gross registered to for 34. a ton before the war, reckoned

age; these vessels could have been hir dead weight, including cargo, stores, s everything, which is double the gross gistered tonnage, The Government b

strese upon the commercial energy which ernment in Hongkong, it appears to me Legislative Coung composition of the agreed not to take more than a proporti that the transient character of the populaUnoficial Member should be appointed to on the gross rogistered tonnage in t 18: The second suggestion is that an each fleet, if possible, at this 11s, rai tion is by itself a serious obstacle.

for the owners can easily get 30 per mon (11.) The socord olsim is the

the Executive Council. The suggestion The petitioners aak not only that there in your despatch that you have personally ment or rather the extension of the first is made by Mr. Keswick, and you state open market. Freights from Baltimore Avonmouth are now 00s, a ton, against shall be elected representatives in the no objection to it, and that the concession

to 10s before the war, and from Austral Council, but that there shall be a majority would be very popular and not altogether to the United Kingdom 955., instead of 2 of such representatives, in other words impoliticed to 355. The British Government de that, at any rate as regards legislation, the Ioan well realise that the addition of

not itself work the ships it takes at the 17 power shall be vested in a very small soc

ion of the population, and that more than

a gentleman of high standing and great rate, which includes no expenses except t nine-tenths of it shall be controlled by ra

local experience would be a gain to the crew's wages and food, The shipown. prezentatives of the small remainder.

Executive Council, and I shall be pre-readers an account for port dues, store pared to sanction the Official Members shall be allowed to speak the following no three Eastern colonies at the British mercantile wirine become mo (12) The third demand is that the recorrero of it for proposal if you still coal, etc., which is paid in addition to t further considering 11s. Neutral shipowners will get the ben

fit of the mormous demand for freights, and vote as they please. It is a demand. which is familiar in the case of Crown the present time is there any unofficial and more absorbed in supplying t

In one of the colonies, but only one answer can be given element in the Executive Council, and 1 United Kingdom with the necessaries to it, viz, that the paid servants of the am not clear that the stop would in all life. Bread, is 3d. a quartern dearer to de Government cannot be left free to oppone cases be actively beneficial whereas I am in London than before the war, mainly t the Government. I should be surprised to learn that the Officials themselves wish-

cause freights are so high owing to th ed to be given this freedom,

enormous demand for tonnage

5. Hongkong when 33 years ago it a British possesion, was lukar bited, I understand, by some 7,000 to 12,000 Chinese squatters and fishermen According to the census of 1891 the population in round numbers, amounted to 281,400, of whom 211,000 or more than nite tenths, were Chinese, The Europeans and Americans numbered 8,500, and nationalities other than Europeans, Ame ricens, and Chinese 1,000. The census further analyses, as follows, the European and American population.

Out of the total of 8,500, the resident civil population amounted only to 4,200, the British military and naval forces numbered 2,000, and the remaining 1,400 represented merchant seamen, police, and

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quite clear that the existing system has on the whole worked well, and that there foro there is no strong reason for disturb It is in fact sot peculiar to the Crowning the next place I note that Mr both the Australian and Canadian harves

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It is cause for Imperial rejoicing the Colony system; it is of the essence of all. In Of the 4,200 individuals, who constituted administration that the paid supporters Keswick proposes that the Unofficial this year are bumper enes. The Unite the European and American civil popular components of a government should Member should be of English birth It States wheat crop was far below the are tion, 1,450 only were returned as British either vote for and when necessary speak must, however, be taken into consideration age, and the whest is soft, spoilt, an Of this number not more than 800 were for the settled policy of the government that it would be invidious and inequit sappy. But the Canadian harvest, thoug adult males, and therefore presumably not or els resign their places.

able to lay down that Chinese subjects of only two or three weeks later, was favou more than 200 of them would be entitled (13) The fourth and fifth claims are to the Queen shall be debarred from appointed by fine weather, and turned out exce to votet we

the effect that the Council, or rather the ment to the Executive Council, and there lent. American wheat is shipped in bal 6. I shail revert to these figures shortly elected majority in the Council, should fore the possibility of the appointment and much of it arrived in such a conditie in connection with the question of popular have complete control over local expendi- being hereafter filled by a Chinese gentle that it had to be chipped out from the hold Mr Grant representation. Meanwhile it may be ture and the management of local affairs. Smith ... deduced from them that under the exist There is point no doubt in these omter.

with pickaxes Mr & Mrs A. Findlaying form of government the population tions, in that the municipal institutions, tically unofficial assistance in the Exocu- In the third place, you state that prao.. of Hongkong as in half a century in which are to be found in Ceylon and the tive Council could always be obtained, of Canada, are practically inexhaustible "Australia's wheat resources, like tho Mr & Mrs A. 8. creased (say) twenty-fold, which is prime Straits Settlements, do not exist in Hong-if the status quo were maintained," and A farmer with 10,000 acres in Australia he

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facie evidence, as you suggest in your koug, but the difficulty at Hongkong is Mr G. E. Stewart

you add that you "invariably consult the only to scratch the surface of a third of hi despatch, that the Colony has been well and must be to draw a line between mat Unofficial Members before bringing into land to produce a first-class crop, and let th Mr & Mrs Vivian governed. But a further deduction bas ters which might be entrusted to a muni- Council measures of purely local in other two-thirds lie fallow. Labour on the Findley Smith also to be made, and that is that under cipal council and the business which must terest. There is therefore not likely to land and freightage to the United King Mr & Mrs David Wood the protection of the British Government be reserved for the Colonial Government, be much practica! gain from the formal dom are all that are needed to ensure ade Hongkong has become rather a Chinese In saying this I am aware that possibly appointment of an Unoficial Member to quate wheat supplies from Australia an than European community; and the fact or even probably a municipality would the Executive Council. that the Chinese have settled in the not meet the aspirations of the petitioners. It has occurred to me that possibly, in Canada for the United Kingdom. Th island in such large numbers has and that they may place a wider construc stead of making any euch appointment, British and Indian Governments too prosperity in on main comentation upon the terms." local expenditure" some understanding might, ho come to that jointly somewhat similne steps to thas

but also the most practical and

than I have placed in the case of discussion of specified local now taken by Australia when they deal andrrefutable evidence that the upon them.

subjects at any rate, so long as there is with the Indian harvest of 1914. A for government, under which a politically (14.) One of the difficulties with which no municipality in existence at Hongkong years ago more than half Britain's annua timid race such as the Chinese bave shown I am met in dealing with this petition.

one or more Unofficial Members should be imports of wheat come from the Unite overy desire to live, muss have at least arises from the fact that the words employ summoned to take part in the proceedings States Latterly Canada, Australia, and possessed some measure of strength and ed require to be more accurately defined of the Executive Council, without giving India have sent us together much mor of justice How far Hongkong is a before their

them seats on the Council for all pur- then half, and the United States in 190 meaning and the intention with Chinese settlement, how far the Chinese which they are used can be fully gauged. poses. This is a pojut on which I shall be and 1011 about one-tenth and in 1912 les bave paid the taxes and contributed to the This criticism especially applies to the glad to leave your opinion

than a fifth." trade, is touched upon in Mr. Lockhart's last in the list of the petitioners' claims, 18. With regard to the institution of a excellent memorandum which accompanies viz., that they should be given consul municipal council, I frankly say, that I your despatch. He is clearly of opinion tative voice in questions of an Imperial should like to see one established at also that the tendency is for the trade of Federation, and it is possibly written Hongkong. But there appear to be two the Colony to pass more and more into with reference to the military contribution practical difficulties in the way. The Chinese bands,

question, which has not been without diffärst is the present crisis. I am not pro I cordially welcome what is said in the culty, ад various colonies including pared to sanction any important change The Petit Journal says the war in Berbin petition as to the skill and energy of the Hongkong. The subject raised is to wide of administration, until the future is cost the Germans 27,000 dead, 43000 wound British merchants who hayo been or and 0 vague that it would be useless to tolerably clear and unthe necessary ed, 47,000 sick; the Austrians, 28,000 dead still are residents in Hongkong, and attempt to discuss it. The question of

measures for protecting the health of the 58,000 wounded, 51,000 sick; the Bul I can testify with pleasure to their a general remodelling of the colonial Colony have been finally decided upon garins 11,000 dead, 32,000 wounded, 8,000 public spirit But the fact remains system of Great Britain for it would and brought into operation. Then, in a sick; and the Turks 3,000 dead and 15,000 that the overwhelming mass of the probably amount to no less-as it would clear field it may be possible to create a wounded. community are Chinese, that they have recessarily become part of any scheme for municipal body with some prospect of thriven under a certain form of got Federation of the Empire, is a most success,cond diffulty, to which susion ernment and that in any scheme in interesting question; but one of too wide volving a change of administration their and far reaching a scope to be dealt with has already been made, is that of separat wishes should be consulted and their inin regard to a single case alone. But ing municipal from Colonial matters. I terests carefully watched and guarded. I may state simply that under the exist. am not confident that that difficulty can

··(7) The communities with which ing system when questions arise which be overcome, nor am I confident that a Hongkong is in the petition unfavourably concern the various colonies, it has been municipality would be welcome to and contrasted, as regards its mode of govern the endeavour of my predecessors in office work harmoniously with the military ment are Malta, Cyprus, Mauritius, and and it is my own earnest endeavour, that authorities. Still it is possible that the British Honduras. Hongkong, it seems the claims, the interests, and even the Sanitary Board might be developed into to me, differs from all of these four depen prejudices of each colony shall be ade a satisfactory Municipal Council con- dencity of the British Crown adike inquately set forth, and fully and fairly trolling all or some of the revenue which degree and in kind. It is smaller than ounsidered,

is now derived from rates. Whether any

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