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HINDUS APPEAL TO GOVERNORGENERAL
------------------Will Ask that Further Immigration of Race Be StoppedLocal Members of Race Subscribe Funds for Home.

------------------A delegation of Hindus called on Medical Health officer Underhill this
morning and stated that nearly $6000 had already been collected for the
purpose of constructing a temporary shelter for Hindus in this city, in
connection with which a Sikh temple would be erected. The lenders in the
project are Port Moody Hindus who held a meeting on the question last
Friday. Five thousand dollars had been collected up to that time and $300
more was subscribed at that meeting. A further meeting will be held next
Friday, when it is expected definite outlines of the proposition will be
presented.
The delegation stated that the man who took the $300 from the
Monteagle Hindus and was supposed to have skipped with the money, had
returned and was actively working with the local committee for the interests
of the local Hindus. It appears that he had only gone to Port Moody to visit
some relations.
One intelligent member of the delegation of the party who talked good
English stated to a Province reporter that the educated Hindus of the city
were going to appeal to the Governor-General to put a stop to the immigration
of Hindus. After conversation with his fellows this man stated that the men
from the Punjab had not been warned in any way as to the conditions which
existed in Canada, and had come expecting to find plenty of work at good
wages immediately upon landing.
“The men of my race I come in contact with here not civilized,” said the
big Sikh. “I travel all over city, go out on train, only find one educated man. It is

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too bad we men come over here. There is no work and many be driven to beg.
That will make white man despise us. Hindus here ignorant, like many sheep,
and only laugh when we educated men tell them keep clean and do what told.
“Only white man can make these men do such things.”