Said Doctor Munro, one of the medical staff of the Immigration Department:  “Even in complicated international negotiations, where each country is jockeying to protect its rights, Canada has to depend on representatives of China or Japan to translate state documents and transmit state messages.  Here we are on the verge of great commercial intercourse with two of the richest countries in Asia, countries that are just awakening from the century’s sleep, countries that will need our flour and our wheat and our lumber and our machinery; and we literally have not a diplomatic body in Canada to speak either Chinese or Japanese.  I’ll tell you what a lot of us would like to see done—­what the southern states are doing with the Latin-Spanish of South America—­have a staff of translators for our chambers of commerce and boards of trade, or price files and lists of markets, etc.  How could this be brought about?  Let Japan and China send yearly, say twenty students to study international law and English with us.  Let us send to China and Japan yearly twenty of our postgraduate students to be trained up into a diplomatic body for our various boards of trade, to forward international trade and help the two countries to understand each other.

“When trouble arose over Oriental immigration a few years ago,” continued Doctor Munro, “I can tell you that it was a serious matter that we had to have the translating of our state documents done at that time by representatives of the very nations we were contesting.”

Unless I am misinformed, one of the men who did the translating at that time is one of the Orientals who has since “suicided,” and the reason for that suicide you might as well try to fathom as to follow the windings of a ferret in the dark.  Certain royal clans of Japan will suicide on order from their government for the good of their country.

“The trouble with these foolish raids on Chinatown for gambling,” said an educated Chinaman in Vancouver to me, “is that the city police have no secret service among the Chinese, and they never raid the resorts that need most to be cleaned out.  They raid some little joint where the Chinese boys are playing fan-tan for ten cents, when they do not raid up-town gambling hells where white men play for hundreds of dollars.  If the police employed Chinese secret service, they could clean out every vice resort in a week.  Except in the segregated district, which is white, there would not be any vice.  They need Chinese police or men who speak Chinese, and there would be no Chinese vice left in this town.”

To go back to the matter of the poll tax and the system of indentured slavery, the bosses mapped out every part of the city and province in wage areas.  Here, no wages under twenty-five dollars, to which green hands were sent; here, a better quarter, no wages under forty dollars; and so on up as high as sixty dollars for mill work and camp cooking.  About this time riots turned the searchlight on all