THE DAILY PROVINCE
JULY 6, 1914

Let the Hindus Enter Is Clergyman’s
Advice
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Dr. Symonds of Montreal Declares It Is Violating
the Principles of Fair Play to Bar Out the men of
India.

------------------Montreal, July 6.—A strong plea, on moral grounds for the admission of
Hindus to Canada was made by Rev. Dr. Symonds in his sermon at Christ
Church Cathedral yesterday evening.
“Our treatment of the Hindu,” he said, “seems to me to fall short of the
principles of our nation. The men who seek entrance are of a higher type than
many who are allowed to come into the country. There is a real need for some
outlet for their teeming population. These are reasons for their being allowed
into Canada. They are of a different color, but in spite of their color, they
belong to the same great Aryan stock from which we, ourselves, have sprung.
Their literature is one of the greatest in the world. They are a temperate
nation. These things, it seems to me, are a sufficient offset to the mere cry of
color.
The preacher touched on the question as to where the line should be
drawn in preventing immigration from the East, saying that Eastern nations
such as the Japanese and the Chinese could not possibly be termed uncivilized.
There is no fairness, he added, in holding the position that this county must
remain entirely for the Anglo-Saxons, for we ourselves had come to Canada
against the will of its former inhabitants, and the British nation had set up its
flag in India against the will of its people. The problem, he continued, should
be dealt with on Christian principles—principles of justice and love.

THE DAILY PROVINCE
JULY 6, 1914

“When we forced ourselves on India and China for the sake of gain,” Dr.
Symonds concluded, “I do not think we can fairly close our doors against the.
If we do, we are surely violating the first principles of fair play.”