It is the duty of the wise legislators. acting upon this problem. to make laws for the future even more than for the present. The forces which favor the admission of the Chines e peasily defined. The most fomidable advocates are the Six Companies. the Canadian and Pacific Railroad. and the steamship lines which carry these immigrants as passengers. All our Chinese immigration is regulated at San Francisco and at ongkong. a British island seized from China during the infamous opium war. We have the testimony of Sir John Pope Hennessey. five years governorgeneral at tongkong. that the loudest protests in his time against Chinese exclusion came from the managers of steamship lines. Five lines. according to Mr. Scharf. late chinese inspector at the port of New York. connect Hbongkong with our Pacific slope. two running to San Francisco and one each to Vancouver.
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