YELLOW PERIL

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1921, Page 3

YELLOW PERIL

DEAN INGE’S VIEWS. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 25.

Dean Tnge's lecture entitled “Coming Economic struggle,” during the course of which he said the danger was not from blacks or reds, but from yellows and browns. It was not a military dangei' at present, but it might, become a military one, if the whites persisted in excluding the yellow and brown races, by violence from the half empty territories. Tf the whites were determined to throw the sword into scale of peaceful competition their rivals would be compelled to vindicate their rights by war. The Japanese did not wish to try conclusions with Europe or America 'on the battlefield, as long ns she was allowed to extend her influence in Asia. The Yellow Peril was a peril of economic competition. Tlie ratio of wages to output all over the East gave the native manufacturers an enoriAous advantage over the European and American manufacturers. Under the regime of pence, free trade was restricted and the immigration of the coloured race would outlive, outwork and eventually exterminate the white {bice. The result of European, Australian and American labour movements had been to produce a type of working j man who had no survival value, and ‘ hut for the protection of an extremist j form, namely,- th e prohibition of immi- J grntion, would soon be swept out of j existence. j

That class of protection rested entirely on armed force. The abolition 'nf war and establishment of rnciaLequniity under the League of Nations would seal the doom of the white labourer such as he had made himself.

The white working man of to-day was dreaming of fresh rewards, doles and privileges which were to 'make 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 being, a far more effieient labour mass, which would eat him up in a generation if the harriers were removed The policy of exclusion would not prevent the races, economically superior from increasing their wealth and military power.

The British race should strive for increased production, the cessation of strikes, peace, free trade and retrenchment. They must learn that industry must be conducted without privileges