The 1889 proposal from the English traders, for example, was that the vote be granted to the ‘right sort’ of Hong Kong people --- namely, male persons of the English ‘race’, which numbered just 800 out of a population of 221,400. INTERVIEWER: NOT EXACTLY UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE. VITTACHI: But there were good people in Hong Kong who realized this was wrong. The then colonial secretary, a man named Lord Ripon, threw out the business people’s proposal and said he would like Chinese faces on the Executive Council.Ripon was laughed at and replaced. The next time the Hong Kong man in the street was told he would have a voice in governing himself was in 1941.
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