LETTERS TO THE" EDITOR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1921, 2 December 1913, Page 7

LETTERS TO THE" EDITOR.

FOREIGN AGITATORS. Sir, —I hnvo noticed several times, in your paper that tho present industrial trouble is attributed to foreigners, and there have been allusions that if it was not for the foreigners tlio'New Zoalanders would not liavo dono such a thing as creating the present trouble. As I did not take any interest in tho present trouble I have no opinion who is to bo blamed for it, tho workers or tlio employers, but I see by tho names of the arrested strike leaders that they I aro not foreigners, but Britishers. Perhaps there, are foreigners among tlio employers? Even if there had been foreigners among tlio creators it would not be wise to blame all the foreigners in tho country. "Is that tlio British fair lilav? If'all the strike creators had been New Zcalaiiders that would bo alright. Oh, but if tliev are foreigners that is quite different. 1 thought that n foreigner had the samo right hero as a Now Zcalander to express his views about tho Government and tho social conditions. What was England a thousand years ago without tho foreigner? What was North Amcrica without the foreigner 'JOO years ago? What was India without him, and what was this Cod's Own Country 100 years ago without tho foreigner? All those countries whero tho foreigners aro welcomed aro progressing rapidly, but where tho foreigner is despised ivo sco the reverse. Your paper has a wido circulation, and thcro aro many peopio who reading it adopt tho views their newspaper, and by repeating several times that tho foreigner is guilty of all tho bad happenings you cause tlio foreigners to bo despised. What good can that do to tho country? Surely you don't want to create foreign hatred, as in China before the Boxer rising: Kill tho foreign devil; or, like the Russian National Press, Bei Shidal Kill tho Jeivl —I am, etc., FOREIGN DEVIL. To Horo. [Our correspondent is mistaken In thinking that any antagonism is being shown to foreigners generally. What tlio public do object to, and witli_ every reason, is that "recent arrivals in tho country should romo here to stir up strife, and disorder, put tho peopio /to heavy, loss, and imperil the prosperity of tlio Dominion. Everyone knows that many of our best settlers and citizens havo come hero from other countries.]