They said: "This timber belongs to the people. It is true that the government can not prevent the employment of Orientals in private mills. but it can prevent their employment upon public 1mds." And so the white laborers of Canada. protesting against cheap labor. induced their government to prohibit the employment of Orientals in the woods that they might work there themselves. and the Canadian government. in the issuance of licenses. absolutely prohibits the employment of oriental labor in woods work. And yet we are told that the mill men of British Columbia employ Asiatics because they can not get white men to do the work. If the mills. like the forests. belonged to the government. plenty of white labor could be found. Do you wonder. then. that there is no difference in the cost of labor in the woods in British Columbia and in the forests of Washington?
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