pCanada,

The People

Address by. Rev: Barfoot
To A Terrace Audience

oS THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1928 ko

In the last two decades the world
has shrunk to a very small place,
until now no place is very. far from
us, even though it be on the other
side of the earth. When you sit down
to breakfast in mid-Pacific or -Atlan-
tie and find your morning paper re-
counting the winner of the’ Derby
or the latest phase of the Chinese
mstrike, or the newest Los Angeles
divorce, you realize how small a
place it is. ‘The ‘world is an open|‘
book for all to ‘read, Many things I
have to say you will find put much
better in periodicals and other Jiter-
peature, but personal contact with an-
Bother part of the world perhaps jus-
tifies a personal interpretation.

‘The Malay Peninsula and Straits
ettlements have sprung. into prom-
‘@ainence in recent years through the
Wwrrojected naval base at Singapore
and through the increasing import-
ance of the rubber trade, and much
@has been said and written about that
gcountry with those two features in
Bmind. I shall not, however, speak at
many length of either of them, since
Tam chiefly interested in the Peoples.

The Malays are the natives of the
mcontry, but, as with the natives in
they form the.
froup of the population. The penin.
sula is known as the Federated Mal-
fay States; there are two unfederated}
mestates ruled absolutely by Malay

smallest

a [Sultans, There are reigning sultans
min each of thé federated states, but

Rfor practical purposes the govern-
mnent is administered by Great Brit-
tin. The details of government. ete.,

fmacen be obtained from any good school

aattention.

peopraphy and need not occupy our

The Malays are of the

mame race ag the Javanese, Phillip.
mpinos and the other islanders of the
Archipelago,

They are true aristo-
‘ Brats; they never work, and know

Mell how to play and enjoy life. The
@elimate in which they live gives them
m living without very great physical
effort—a small field of rice, a few
fish from the river, game from the
mungle, and something (very littley
mo wear satisfies all their needs.

In

religion they are ‘Mobammedans and |!
no effort is made’ to Christianize

them by any missionary society, © “The
Malays area very proud, dignified:
and hospitable people and altogether
delightful to meet. They do not cil-
tivate western ideas and- customs ag
the’ Chinese and Japanese do; neither
do they to any great extent copy our
vices, Drinking, which isa great
curse among Tamils.and Europeans,
is practically unknown among them,
abstinence being one of the precepts
lot their faith. Motor car drivers are
nearly always Malays for that reason
—Envropeans can trust them to be
sober when they need the car and
can he assured a reasonably’ safe
trip. The Malay language is..uni-
versal for purpose of converse in
shops, with servants, ete., but Eng-
lish ig the basic language in ‘all gov-
ernment and missionary schools.
_The Chinese in Malaya.

The bulk of the population in Mal-
aya is Chinese, and of these - the
Cantonese are in the. majority; but
there are many from every part of
Chiaa, The - Hylansk are strongly
represented and sre commonly the
laborers.and servants of the country,
whereas the Cantonese, -with their
well known aptitude for business, are

the merchants apd shop-keepers. The
wealth of the couritry, which is very,
‘Rreat, is largely in the hands of. the’
Chinese, there being many millions
#ires among them. The labor in the
tin mines ig largely Chinese. Tin is
the second great industry of the
country, Nearly two-thirds of the
world’s tin is mined and smelted
there, The largest dea'ers in tin are
the Straits Settlement: Trading Co.
aml the Eastern Smelting Co. The
former cleared -nearly one and a half
millions in six months. -For the most
part the tin-is dredged, but: there
are many small placer mines where
fortunes.are made, Prospecting for
tin is continually going on and ‘the
end is nowhere in sight. Untold.
wealth | in this metal is there,
Indians :

The second largest population in|
the country is Indians, for the most

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jerly been in ‘the hands of Sicily.

; bound ' together.
‘meet’ in Malaya: and decide’ to ask
| the: government: .to ‘impose _restric-

‘ trols the: markets‘in rubber. We are.

it. ought: to make ‘us more ‘careful
‘Where « we put. pressure ‘on this great.
The “inexpert and|[
careless may touch a nerve, at the|f-. -
Jf nest: unexpected - ‘place: and ‘shake, it -
not ‘thatter,, the’ whole, ‘ayatem; ed

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part ‘Tamils,’ although every part of
India is represented. “The rubber ia
bor is drawn chiefly from these In-
dians. Labor conditions are good;

health is carefully’ looked after by
efficient, ‘well paid doctors; and this:
labor is. comparatively well. paid.
The housing: conditions are good, be-
ing provided ‘and supervised by the |-
estate owners. and ‘their: managers.
What the ‘rubber. industry means to
the. world is well known to you: all,
Malaya -is- -at ‘present enjoying a
boom in’ this. reanect.. after several
years Of. severe depression, whieh hit
the country very. hard. “Many -have
written and: ‘spoken of rubber lately,
so I will not ‘attempt to- add more
of that. . is

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'. Europeans ;

a ©

AN countries’ are represented, but
the bulk ‘is English and Scotch, com-
posed of .government. officials, man-
agers of rubber estates. and tin mines
and their .assistants, A. problem is
ereated -by* ‘the preponderance ' of

‘haps not unknown in British’ Colum-
bia. The «government’s .administra- |
tion and ‘the reapect in which her
servants are’ held’ makes one proud
of belonging to the British Empire.
A recent articld.in East and West by |-
Rev.. E. A. Hone, if available, should
be read in connection with an aspect
of life there with which I have no
tivne nor apace to deal,

‘Malaya. is the university of the

bers of Orientals from, India, Chine
and Japan, strongly under western
and - conditions. ‘Daily
ships leaves Malaya-with large pas-
senger traffic for these countries—
men and.women returning home for
visits or to settle permanently and
to carry to their own home town the

the America of the Orient in many
ways. This fact presents a ‘problem,
and it is an educational problem of

not yet dreamed of. - In our. day
everything and everybody must in-
terest us as a problem or we shall
sooner or. later interest them as ‘a
“case” for mental treatment, “We
can no longer isolate ourselves from
any place or people without grave
Jconsequences to ourselves. The
world is a great” nervous system;
touch it anywhere and it is felt
everywhere. A change of govern-
ment in France immediately affects

An interesting illus-

us a few-years ago-in. America,
was noticed that a great increase in
the number of Sicilian immigrants
was taking place at the port of New
‘York, and an, investigaton was set
on foot, .It was discovered that the

frigerator car in America. By this
means fruit from Florida and Cali-
fornia: became:: available in New
York markets. ‘This trade had form.

With her, best markets cut off, many
Sicilians were thrown out of employ-
ment, so ecame'to America. Such a
little thing upsets the distant island's
whole life. So it is, that ..we-.are
A few.. planters

tions on the export of rubber in
order to save them ‘from bankruptcy.
‘A couple of years later America be-
gina to howl at the price of manu-
factured rubber. goods. Malaya - cons

“ali bound up- together in just that
intimate: way.-No. man can. forecast
the. results of auch. a shrinking. of
the’ world, but one thing. ‘ig certain:

‘hexvous’ ‘system, -

males’ over ‘females,’ a -nroblem per-|'

ideas and wealth gained there. It is}.

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