A WARNING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 434, 17 February 1909, Page 9

A WARNING.

!v, .Sir, —The; agitators of the. labour trusts are joMo/nioro'raismg a hue and.cry.against the I infiuiifpf a /white' : 'popu!atiftir'of their' own countrymen into'this sparsflly-settlod portion 'of tho-'British; Empire..; '-Tho;,short-sighted •folly of theso /self-conetilutod leaders ,' of ;labour can,have.only, one result, and.that is : .th6'"uli'hnatfl'swamping of Now Zealand And ; Australia; by;.'/Mongolians itom China' and Japan.;.':Tho.idea that, wo, ttith. bur : small population.andi vast and empty territory, cafr ;slrv;ays';','slam the door' 1 -by a'heavy poll-tax, e'tc.,;iii tho.faces of,live or nix'hundred irtilllpns of Asiatics,, or ojic-qii.'irtor, of the world's gopnlatioa, is'■'■worthy of the '■'inmates of a ■lunaticasylum;' bufcof no on<>. ofe 'if .the Government of the pcoplo intend to hold these fairlhiids for our'own. race, they must'at all. hazards occupy then),:" by filling them with their ownfpeoplo as tho.'Americaus have done .with their country, or we or our children will in the end become the,vassals of inferior races from ' tNs il-ust, '.It is quito .true, that there is a certain number of mi-, the. natural result/of the tyranny of tho labour trusts and their all-powerful allies, the Now Zealand ftrivorn'melit,"-' who thomselvos fill .up nearly pvery department of the.State with beardless boys and.young girls,'under;tho linmo of, cadets, whilst regularly prosecuting and ' poi'seouting private .employers'.■for;, employing more . than .one to every four. or. five men. And yet the mighty chorus of tho labour loaders on'tho recent deputation to'itlio-.Minister"; say 'The-Government is , not to ' blame." .Labour unions and unemployment are synony-. mous terms.tho.ivido world over.—l am, etc., >■■■ ,„e. -'W-'" : : AN'OLD OBSERVER.' Wellington, . ';'■' . ■"•- .'/;■'. February 11, 1909^