Twenty-five per cent.
become invalids from the same cause. Nine million girl wives in India
are under fifteen years of age; two million are under eleven.

I asked a British Columbia sawmill owner why the Hindu could not speed up
with a Pole or Swede.

"No stamina," he answered. "Too many generations of vice! Too many
generations of birth from immature mothers; no dower of strength from
birth."

The advocates of Hindu colonization in Canada glibly advise "prohibiting
child wives." To bar out child wives sounds easy. How are you to know
they are child wives and not daughters? If one thing more than another
has been established in Vancouver about Hindus, not excepting the
leaders, it is that you can not believe a Hindu under oath. Also British
law does not allow you to bar out a subject's wife unless she be diseased
or vicious. If you let down the bar to any section of the Hindu, teeming
millions will come--with a demand to vote.

That Canada's continuous passage law is immoral and intolerable no one
denies. It is a subterfuge and a joke. The day the Japanese steamship
tested the law by bringing passengers direct from land of birth the law
fell down and Canada had to face squarely the question of exclusion. As
the world knows, the shipload of human cargo after lying for months in
Vancouver Harbor was sent back, and Hindu leaders proved their claims of
a right to citizenship by assassinating Hopkinson.

To the claim that the Sikhs are loyal, Canada answers--"for their own
sake." If British protection were withdrawn from India to-morrow, a
thousand petty chiefs would fly at one another's throats. The idea that
expropriation is behind exclusion could be entertained only by an
Oriental mind. Expropriation is possible under Canadian law only for
treason. Imperial unity is no more threatened in Canada by exclusion
than it was threatened in South Africa and Australia. The Hindus are
adapted to the cultivation of the soil, but if they come in millions,
will any white race sit down beside them? Why does immigration
persistently refuse to go to the southern states? Because of a black
shadow over the land. Does Canada want such a shadow?

The missionary argument can hardly be taken seriously. Missionaries do
not go to India to colonize. They do not introduce white vices. They go
at Canada's expense to give free medical and social service to India.

"Why should a Sikh not marry a white woman?" There, ag