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 134 INDIANS IN THE COLONIES

fashion now-a-days to consider thab because our humble share in nob being disloyal to the Government ab the present juncture, we are entitled to the rights which have been hitherto withheld from us, as if those rights were withheld because our loyalty was suspected, No, my friends, if they have been withheld from us, the rea- sons are different and those reasons will have to ba altered. They are due, some of them to undying prejudices, to economic causes and these will have to ba examined ; bub prejudice will have to be nub down. And wbab are the hardships that our countrymen are labouring under in South Africa, in Canada, and the other Self-Governing. Colonies ? In S^uth Africa the Settlement of 191.4 secure* whab the passive resistors were fighting for and nothing more, and they were fighting for the restoration of legal equality in connection with emigrants from British India, and nothing more.

That legal equality has been restored, but the domes- tic troubles till remain and if it was nob the custom unfortunately inherited for the lasb forty years thab the predominenb language in this assembly should be English, our Madras friends will have baken good care to have learnt one of the northern vernaculars, and then there are men enough in South Africa who would tell you about the difficulties that we have bo go through even now in South Africa in connection with holding landed property. in connection wibh men who having been once domiciled in South Africa, return to South Africa, their difficulties in connection with the admission of children, their diffi- oulties in connection with holding licenses of trade. These are, if I may BO call them, bread and bubber difficulties. There are other difficulties which I shall nob enumerate just now. In Canada, it is nob possible for these member*

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