RACE ADMIXTURE AND DEPRESSION.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 81, 29 September 1894, Page 2

RACE ADMIXTURE AND DEPRESSION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THJB STAR. Sir,— lt is strange that so much apathy and ignorance prevails upon the above important question, involving as it does circumstances which lead to the decay of nations. The downfall of the Roman Empire was, in a great measure, caused by alien tribes getting a footing in her armies and influence in State affairs, and the admixture of the Asiatic and' African with the AngloSaxon or European races will just as surely cause their decline. Although business men and laborers are the classes directly injured, yet all members of a community are effected sooner or later, not even in the end leaving out the monopolist ; as by their faculty of imitation certain Asiatic races would in time compete with all tradesmen and professionals, and as they can live on a lower scale of diet, scanty clothing, and also exist in crowded inferior dwellings, they would drag the European down to their low standard of life, a standard or habit of life in which the superior race would in time dwindle away, and the native of Asia or Africa would predominate. Advancement in the arts, sciences, and general knowledge, should be no plea as an antidote to counteract this cause of decay, unless the evil is dealt with and put a stop to. The Roman Empire was at the height of its grandeur and renown, and her armies were mcdels of discipline, when the canker worm of decay was doing its work by undermining the material, social, moral, and political, welfare of the State—circumstances which led to the Empire's ultimate downfall. In these later days the prevalence of ill-advised strikes leading to the loss of trade and employment, with other signs, show that the British Kingdom is on the decline, its downfall being hastened by a great deal of the present day legislation. Excessive competition and the consequent difficulty, i 8 a serious problem of the present time, while very few trouble their head to discover the cause, and the question may be asked : How is it that working men have been begging bread, and other necessaries, in the streets, some of whom are no doubt willing to do work if they can find it, tradesman competing with the general laborer, and so many failures among business man? The suicidal policy of the present Government in regard to the laborer, the discouraging of the capitalist and of private enterprise by competing with the latter, aggravates and increases the unemployed difficulty. I would point out here that a great part of the present day tendency to socialism, communism, anarchism, etc., leading to revolution, is caused by a lack of employment, The main and original cause of the foregoing will be found to be the curse of race admixture, and I could bring evidence to prove that the great wave of depression which spread over civilised countries some years back, first affected the United States, just before the Chinese Restriction Act was enforced, arose from this cause. The extreme temperance reformer, or prohibitionist, seems to have the notion that by prohibiting the use of intoxicating liquor all the ills that afflict humanity will be done away with, but temperance and other reforms will not stay the downward tendency caused by that greater evil against natural laws-~ namely, the admixture of, certain races. At a meeting of q debating society fo Feilding lately, the following question, was discussed, Should alien emigration be restricted ox not ? which w.as carried by tho.se supporting the negative by a,, large majority. Now tfyat majority must haye beeu prejudiced in favor qf o* quite ignorant' iu regard ta the evil directs of, race admixture, I &.w, oto., A COLONWT, *'eildii4g, September 27th, 1894.