The Chinese have been dubbed "semi-civilized and heathenish", but the "International Recreation Club" and the Kiangwan race-course display an absence of any desire to retaliate and sentiments of international friendship such as it would, perhaps, be difficult to parallel.

Should such people be denied admission into Australia, Canada, or the United States?
Would not the exclusionists in those countries profit by association with them?
The immigration laws in force in Australia are, I am informed, even more strict and more severe than those in the United States.

They amount to almost total prohibition; for they are directed not only against Chinese laborers but are so operated that the Chinese merchant and student are also practically refused admission.

In the course of a lecture delivered in England by Mrs.Annie Besant in 1912 on "The citizenship of colored races in the British Empire", while condemning the race prejudices of her own people, she brought out a fact which will be interesting to my readers, especially to the Australians.

She says, "In Australia a very curious change is taking place.