Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter IV. The immigration of coloured races

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cmap. Iv] IMMIGRATION OF COLOURED RACES 1085 in terms forbidden, on the ground of colour only. His Majesty’s Government have shown every sympathy with the efforts of the people of Australia to deal with the problem of immigration, but they have always objected, both as regards aliens and as regards British subjects, to specific legislative discrimination in favour of, or against, race and colour, and that objection applies with even greater force to the present case, in which the question is not of the rights of the white population of Australia as against an influx of foreign immigrants, but merely of the employment of His Majesty’s Indian subjects on a contract to be mainly performed in tropical or sub-tropical waters. Even if the service were one upon which His Majesty’s [ndian subjects had not hitherto been employed, it would destroy the faith of the people of India in the sanctity of the obligations undertaken towards them by the Crown if the Imperial Government should become in any degree whatever parties to a policy of excluding them from it solely on the ground of colour. But where they have already been em- ployed in the service for a long period of years, to proscribe them from it now would be to produce justifiable discontent among a large portion of His Majesty’s subjects. His Majesty's Government deeply regret that their feeling of obligation in this matter is not shared by the Parliament of the Commonwealth, and that in regard to a matter which cannot affect the conditions of employment in Australia, and in no way affects that purity of race which the people of Australia justly value, they should have considered it desirable to dissociate themselves so completely from the obligations and policy of the Empire. Similarly in 1906 the reserved Bill of the Commonwealth Parliament restricted the preference to British goods to such as were imported in British ships manned exclusively by white labour. But the Bill never received the royal assent because it infringed in its restrictions to British ships the principle of several treaties of commerce, and thus the question of white labour did not require decision.! But the temporary visits of merchants, students, and distinguished Cf. Harrison Moore, Commonwealth of Australia,’ p. 110, n.; Common- wealth Parl, Pap., 1907, No. 3; Debates, 1906, pp. 3709-13, 3760-91, 3866-965, 5051-7, 5288-346, 6140-75, 6370-9, 6393-402, 6408 seq. The Austro-Hungarian Treaty, and probably the Russian Treaty, would have run counter to this provision. But see also Parl. Pap., Cd. 3523, p. 315.

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