Chapter I: Front Matter

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JOHN CHINAMAN ON THE RAND

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_SOUTH AFRICAN HOTELS_

PORT ELIZABETH (ALGOA BAY)

Palmerston Hotel

Terminus Road,

PORT ELIZABETH

Close to Station and Jetty

_Best brands of_ ...

_WINES, SPIRITS and CIGARS...._

Porters meet all Trains

H. HEAD, Proprietor

CAPE TOWN.

Princess Royal Hotel

Corner of Long and Riebeek Sts.,

_Two Minutes from Railway Station_.

CAPE TOWN.

Newly Erected Superior Furnished Bedrooms.

Fine Balcony Views of Table Bay and Mountain.

Excellent Billiard Table (Thurston's Best).

Good Attendance. Perfect Sanitary Arrangements.

_SPECIAL TERMS FOR RESIDENT BOARDERS._

Visitors from England Up-Country will find Accommodation Unequalled.

_S. S. PALMER, Proprietor._

EAST LONDON

Hotel National

EAST LONDON

The most centrally situated Hotel - - in Town - -

A First-class, Up-to-date Family and Commercial Hotel

Large airy Rooms. Excellent Cuisine. Good Stabling and Billiard Room

_Best Wines and Cigars only stocked_

CHAS. COLLINS, Proprietor

BLOEMFONTEIN (O.R.C.)

_Replete with every Comfort._

EXCELLENT CUISINE.

FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL.

Polley's Hotel

MARKET SQUARE, BLOEMFONTEIN.

Perfect Sanitation. Porters meet all trains.

Under the personal supervision of the Proprietor,

_A. E. POLLEY_.

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JOHN CHINAMAN ON THE RAND

by an English Eye Witness

With Introduction by Dr. John Clifford, M.A., Ll.B.

And Frontispiece and Four Illustrations

London R. A. Everett & Son 10 & 12 Garrick Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 1905 [All rights reserved]

Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Bread Street Hill, E.C., and Bungay, Suffolk.

_INTRODUCTION BY DR. JOHN CLIFFORD, M.A., LL.B._

_I have read the following account of the importation of Chinese coolies into South Africa with the keenest pain and sorrow. It is an authentic story of one of the foulest tragedies in our British annals; the witness of one who has seen the facts for himself._

_It is an indictment packed with sifted evidence, written with knowledge; but also with the indignation of the patriot and of the humanitarian, against wrongs wantonly inflicted upon our fellow-men and sanctioned by the Parliament of the Empire. The "balance of evil" is overwhelmingly proved. It is an economic blunder. It is another blood-stained page in the history of the inhumanity of man to man. It violates the domestic and the social ideals. It is a blight upon our Empire; and, chiefest of all, it is inevitably and overwhelmingly immoral; productive of vices and crimes that cannot be named without shame and wrath._

_And yet these foreigners who sell men for gold are declaring that this system must remain "undisturbed." Never! It must go. It is building the Empire on the blood of souls. It is not a "necessity." It is a wanton iniquity. It is not "freedom"; and it is shuffling of the meanest kind to say that it is not "slavery." Let Britishers realize their responsibility and bring to a speedy and final end this return to barbarism!_

_JOHN CLIFFORD._

_The Publishers beg to thank the Editor of the 'Morning Leader' for permission to use the Illustrations contained in this volume._

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I. ENSLAVING THE RAND 13

II. 'AVE, CROESUS, MORITURI TE SALUTANT' 27

III. THE YELLOW MEN ON THE RAND 46

IV. THE GROWTH OF TERRORISM 77

V. THE YELLOW TRAIL 98

VI. THE EFFECT OF CHINESE LABOUR. PROMISES AND PERFORMANCES 110

JOHN CHINAMAN ON THE RAND