THE YELLOW PERIL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 131, 26 February 1921, Page 7

THE YELLOW PERIL

LECTURE BY DEAN INGE EFFECT OF WHITE LABOUR MOVEMENTS By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. "February 26, 0.10 a.m.) London, February 25. Dean Inge delivered a lecture entitled "Tho Coming Economic Struggle," during the course of which he said the danger was hot from blacks or reds, but from the yellows and browns. It was not a military danger at present, but might become military if the whites persisted in excluding the yellow and brown races by violence from halfempty territories. If the whites determined to throw the sword into the scale of peaceful competition, their rivals would be compelled to vindicate sheir rights by war. The Japanese did not wish to try conclusions with Europe or America on the battlefield as long as she was allowed to extend her influence in Asia. The yellow peril was the peril of economic competition. The ratio of wages to output all over the East gave the native manufacturers an enormous advantage over European and American manufacturers. Under a regime of peace, free trade, and restricted immigration the coloured race would outlive, out-work, and eventually exterminate the white race. The result of European, Australian, and American labour movements had been to produce a type of working man who had no survival value, and but for protection of an extremist form, namely, the prohibition of immigration, would soon bo swept out of existence. That class of protection rested entirely on armed force. The abolition of war and the establishment of racial equality under the League of Nations would sea] the doom of the white labourer such as ho had made himself. The white working man of to-day was dreaming of fresh rewards, doles, and privileges which were to make the white countries a paradise for his class; yet all the time he was. living on sufferance behind an artificial dyke of ironclads and bayonets, on the other side there being a far more efficient labour mass which would eat him up in a generation if .the barrier were removed. The policy of exclusion (would not prevent races economically superior from inc~°asing their wealth and military power The British race should strive for increased production, a cessation m strikes peace, free trade, and retrenchment. They must learn that industry must be conducted without privileges.— Aus.-N Z. Gable Assn.