The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1910. "THE WHOLE WORLD KIN."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 June 1910, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1910. "THE WHOLE WORLD KIN."

The gradual, yet clearly evident, progress of the world toward the universal kinship of which the poets long have dreamied; was well 1-lus-t rated last night, in Levin, by the remlarks of the Chinese Consul. Yung Liang Hwang, with the introspective critical faculty wWch is an admirable attributo in whomsoever found, was able ini some degree to make clear to his audience the reasons for the Chinaman's strongly contrasted aspect towards life problems which arise for settlement in Occidental as much as in Oriental kinds; and to show, too, that by widely divergent paths the Yellow man and the White may appmadh equally near to the goal of perfoc-

titan towards wliirli both are striving. It \v«s a thougjhtfuil and sciliofarly addiiess; one si ice /to make men ponder deeply on questions that have 'been postulated nppn in the past wfthbut sufficient consideration. What, ;for example, could be more teJliivgifchia.ll the Consull's appeal for mlitual toleration-amongst-the representatives of the two races who were .east' - together undier circumstances thafc prohibited a full understanding of cnc.li other's noinits of view? The Clwmeso mind, strictly tutored to respect ideals which were foreign to itihe nature of tho European mind, was frequently puzzled .to account for tho different aspects which the one set of circumstances could present to two peoples; and, as Yung Liang Hwang humorously observed, his country-

men in tliese parts were kept too busy earning bread 1 and butter to be able to devote much time to studying tlie new conditions with which they were being 'brought into touch. For liis own pa.itt, he added, he felt the task difficult. He had been for ten years moving amongst people both in America and Europe, and! ireadang their dlady newspapers, and still he felt he had 'not got,their point of view. Fox fifteen .mionths itoe had been trying •to understand New Zeailiand problems, and he was afraid he had riot succeeded here. Hei was not aible to understand New Zealand politics thoroughly, he was mf raid; (and lie looked quite' astonished alt the heartiness of the laughter tliis statement evoked from the large audience which acknowledged itself similarly untaJble to undereitiajul, aftei lifelong oxpierienlces of this latter puzaAe)'. lecture, ail in all, was one that should materially help to establish a foxing of tolar&tv>n for those far Eaajfemers amongst us

who aire here by virtue of a doubtful boon granted ami forced" upon -them by that Greater Britain <iif which New Zealand is a component part. The whole subject is a thorny one, which requires delic-ats handling, and. we feel (impelled to say t.hait such letters as that of oivi correspondent "South Africa ' (printed in another part of to-day'.s " Chronicle") are 'not the kind oi pronouncement likely to fadliitnte settlement of this grave problem. The matter is one for dispassionate discussion and adjustment; one to i be' sottled by mutual concessions and toleration; by reasonable restrictions and safeguards; noit bv lVlivtan.t crying of rude epithets ami the launching of unconsidered assertions 'and aspersions.