250 A SPORTSMAN'S EDEN. 



against the constant influx of British and other 

 paupers. But the only paupers objected to by 

 Canada are those who insist on remaining paupers, 

 who insist on living on charity, and will not or 

 cannot work. It must be remembered that it 

 costs less to get to Canada than to any other 

 English colony, and that, in spite of this fact, 

 Canada has continued to offer assisted passages 

 to English immigrants after every other colony 

 except New Zealand has ceased to do so ; and 

 New Zealand only assists those who can show 

 that they will arrive in their new home with 

 money sufficient for their support at the outset. 

 If a man cannot by some means acquire the tiny 

 sum of four pounds, sufficient to pay his own 

 passage to Canada, he is hardly likely, argue the 

 Canadians, to have sufficient ' grit ' to ensure 

 success in a new country. 



But listen to what Sir Matthew Begbie, our 

 Chief Justice in British Columbia, a man of long 

 and real experience in the country, said in 1885, 

 when answering questions before the Commission 

 on the Chinese Question. ' I never heard,' he 

 said, ' of any person, white, black, or yellow, who 

 had labour to sell that was worth buying who 

 could not in this province find a ready employer. 

 But in order to get remunerative employment 

 here or anywhere else in the world, a man must 



