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Types of the Hindus who resisted the immigration authorities of Canada. Most of the Sikhs refused admission to Canada were veterans of the Anglo-Indian army, and their resentment may influence the attitude of India in the present European crisis
The following, an extract from a letter ad- dressed by a Britisher to the Calgary Herald, is a sample of this Imperialist opinion:
“The whole affair at the coast is a deep disgrace to the British Empire and a blatant display of Canadian swellheadedness, big- otry, narrow-mindedness and ignorance, un- British in the extreme. It is time there was some drastic curtailment of Laurierentian autonomy and self-government regarding imperial matters in Canada if this is the best Canadians can do. They are fast be- coming a disgrace to the empire from sev- eral points of view.”
The departure of the ““Komagata Maru,” however, does not settle the Hindu ques- tion. The general exclusion order affect- ing British Columbia expires in Septem- ber. It cannot be extended indefinitely. When the bars are lifted, British Columbia cannot deny admittance to the Hindus. Downing Street will have to do some ex- ceedingly tactful work to avoid ugly com- plications. Even now the episode in Van- couver harbor may be fanning the flame of revolt in British India.
The Western Line-up for November
HE Republicans of California derived much needed comfort from the result
of thenewregistration that began with
the first of the year. A few weeks before the books closed for the primaries the relative strength of the par‘ies, as expressed by the affiliation of the voters for primary—and secondary—purposes was as follows: Re- publicans, 388,895; Democrats, 206,146; Progressives, 184,675; Socialists, 51,723; Prohibitionists, 28,199; not stated, 44,570. Though the Republican registration al- most exceeds the combined total of the Progressives and Democrats, though the surprising strength developed by the Re- publican party led to a wild scramble for Republican nominations, it would still be unsafe to lay bets on the outcome of the November election with the registration fig- ures as basis of the odds. In 1912 the Pro- gressive ticket polled 283,000 votes as against less than 4000 for Taft. Even ad- mitting the tremendous handicap of the Taft Republican forces by non-representation
