“A white workman” complains in Chinook Jargon
I always heard, “The poor workman blames his tools.” 🙂
Do you understand the blaming phrase “halo shame“?
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In response to a proposal to import Japanese workers for the Grand Trunk Pacific railroad line:
It is hard to belleve that the
man whom we elected on the cry that
he stood for a white British Columbia
is supporting a government who vot-
ed against “white” men’s wages be-
ing paid.Mr. Taylor halo shame.
A WHITE WORKMAN.
— from the New Westminster (BC) Daily News of September 29, 1909, page 4, column 2
Hat-tip to Alex Code.


