This Club has purchased a large tract of land at Kiangwan,
about five miles from Shanghai, and has turned it into a race-course,
considerably larger than that in Shanghai. When a race meeting is held there,
IT IS OPEN TO FOREIGNERS AS WELL AS CHINESE, in fact complimentary tickets
have even been sent to the members of the foreign race club inviting
their attendance. Half of the members of the race committee are foreigners;
while foreigners and Chinese act jointly as stewards and judges;
the ponies that run are owned by foreigners as well as by Chinese,
and Chinese jockeys compete with foreign jockeys in all the events.
A most pleasing feature of these races is the very manifest
cordial good feeling which prevails throughout the races there.
The Chinese have been dubbed "semi-civilized and heathenish",
but the "International Recreation Club" and the Kiangwan race-course
display an absence of any desire to retaliate and sentiments of
international friendship such as it would, perhaps, be difficult to parallel.
Should such people be denied admission into Australia, Canada,
or the United States? Would not the exclusionists in those countries
profit by association with them?
The immigration laws in force in Australia are, I am informed,
even more strict and more severe than those in the United States.
They amount to almost total prohibition; for they are directed
not only against Chinese laborers but are so operated
that the Chinese merchant and student are also practically refused admission.
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