A RISING TIDE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1921, Page 4

A RISING TIDE

WHITE WOllI/O’S DANCER. GLANCES AT A GREAT HOOK. (By Sir Joseph Cnrruthers). I hoard Lord Northeliilt* say that Australians ought to road Stoddard's rooont book, "Tin- Rising Tide id Colour." As niy campaign to settle* a million farinors in Australia within tho noxt -tt roars is hnsod on tho vital necessity of koo])ino Australia whito. I got tho hook and road it. I understand that vorv low copies tiro prociir;ll do in Australia at present, and, therefore, very low |M*oplo are ahlo to ptoouro otto. I heliovo that it will intorost many il’ I give a low extracts which I made ill tho course ol my perusal of tho hook, as they fairly indicate tho material from which tho author draws his conclusions. I may briefly summarise those conclusions in those words :—"ln tho world’s history tho white race has boon dominant lot only a leu out 111 many cent lilies ; while doininalion, even in its brief period, has boon assailed continuously, and today the ebb tido has sot in for tho white race, and there is a vising tido ol colour.”

It (MTtniiilv surprised me to rend in cold typo Hint “forty vonrs nftor the first Legislature sat at ,Jam<‘sto\vii, in Virginia, North A morion, tho Turks were at the zenith ol thoir power in Knropo ; and that this was tho date »»i the final check to thoir aspirations tor a wide Umpire over all Ktiropo. Since

tltcn there have hoon L , .">o years ol wars with Turkey, and gradually sh<* has been reduced from the “Strong .M.nn ol Kum]H'” to a very sick man. Still, it is well to remember that only lor a comparatively short period in recenl history has the white domination of kill rope been acknowledged ns based on power. Yet Kuropi* is the home of tinwhite races.

lit order to give some general idea •*f the author’s views and tin- iaets upon which he liases them I will give specially selected extracts from the hook. As these are read so there will come ;in understanding of what a flood lido of colour may mean when tin* receding title is that of the white race. These extracts need not he read to cause a scare, but to create sober thought. A constructive policy to properly people Australia commends itself as the shield against jnissihle deslruct ion.

OITNr.MKKKK!) TWO Tu ONK. The total number of human beings alive to-day is about ! 71in.1l! MMIUp. Of tlu-e aie white, while I .lot 1,1100,H0P are coloured. Tho coloured races thus outnumber the whiles more than two to one. Another fact of capital importance is that ihe great hoik ol tin* w hite race i> concent ruled ill tin* Kutnjiean Continent. There can be no doubt ibaf at pies*>n| 1 lie roloiired races are iiu-icnsing ver\ mticli faster than the wliite. I’reating the primary iaee-stocks as units, it would appear that whites tend lo double in eighty years, yellows and browns in sixty years, blacks in forty years. The v. Idles an* thus tin- slowest brooders, ; mi ; !:«• v will umhmbtodl v b<*< uiiio

sitiwoi still, siiua* section alter section ol the while taco is revealing that lowered birth-rate which in l-'iancc has touched tho extreme of a stationary papula t ion. (In the other hand, none ol the ooloiiiod tacos shows jiorooplihle signs of declining hiith-ratc, all lending to breed up to tho limits ol availaide subsistence. This w bite statement

of tin* (oloiircd thesis is an accurate K'llcilion ot what coloured men say themselves. For example, a Japanese scholar, I’m lessor Ryttinro Nilgai,

The world was not made for the white races, Inti for the other races as well. In Australia, Smith Africa, Canada and the Enitcd States there are vast tracts , 1 mini copied territory awaiting settlement. Hud although the citizens ol the ruling I’oweis ret use to take tip t Inland, no yellow people ate pci-milted to enter. Thus the white races seem ready to i-iiiiimit to the savage birds and beasts what they relilsc to entrust in their brethren of the yellow races. Sure!v the arrogance and avarice ol tin* nobility in appot (inning to ! Leni'clves the mo*.l and the best of the land ill cot tain countries are as nothing compared with the attitude of tin* "hilt* I. tecs toward those ol a dith-rciit line. WHITE CIVIL WAR. Theft came the Great War. The coin 111 1 'd world suddenly saw the white peoples, which in racial matters had hitherto maintained something ol a united front, locked in an internecine death grapple of tinpaiallelcd I'ctm-ity: it saw those same peoples put one another furiously to the ban as irreconcilable foes; it saw white race unity cleft hv political and moral gulls. which

v,’.i;e men themselves continuously itcratcd would never In* Idled. As coloured men realised the significance of it all they looked into each other’s eves, and there saw the light ot ntt-drciiitied-ol lio|h:s. The white world was tearing itself to pieces. White solidarity was liven and shattered. And fear of white power and res|>e(-l lor white civilisation together dropped away like garments outworn. Through the hiv-aars of Asia ran Hie sibilant u his|H*r, “The East will see the West, to lx*.!.”

The chorus mingled exultation, bate, and scorn sounded from every portion of tin* coloured world. Chinese scholars, Japanese prolessors, Hindu pundits, Turkish journalists, and Ai’mAmericaii editors one and all voiced drastic criticisms of white ciivlisatien. and hailed the war as a well-merited Nemesis on white arrogance and greed. This is how the Constantinople "Taninc," the most serious Turkish newspa per. characterised the • Eiiro|R*an I’oweis: — _

They would not look at, tho evils in their own countries or elsewhere, but interfered at, (lie slightest incident in borders; every day they woo HI ~-naw at simie part of our rights and our sovereignty, they would perforin vivisection on our quivering flesh, and ! cut oil - great/ pieces of it. And wo, j w ith a forcibly controlled spirit, of re- ! liellion in our hearts, and with clinched 1 hut powerless lists, silent and depressed ’ would murmur as the fire burned with in - “Oh, that thev might fall out wit a one another! Oh. that they might cat ear’ll other up! And lo! to-day thev are are eating each other up, just as the Turtle wished they would. AN AFRTCAN VTFW. The Afro-American author. W. F. Tturghardt Dubois, wrote of the coloured world: — . ' These nations and aces, composing as

they do a vast majority of humanity, ttro going to endure this treatment just as long; as they must, and not a moment longer. Then they are going to tjuht and the war of the colour line will outdo in savage inhumanity any war this world has yet soon. For coloured folk have much to remember, and they will not forgot PAN-ASIATIC LEAGUE.

Although Japanese plans and aspirations have broadened notably since 1 nil. their outlines were well defined a decade earlier. Some of the facts regarding these societies, about which 100 little is known, make interesting reading. For instance, there was the ‘•Pacific Ocean Society” (“Taltcijoka”) whose preamble reads in part: for it century the Pacific Ocean has boon a battleground, wherein the* nations have struggled for supremacy. Today the prosperity or decadence of a. nation depends en its power in tin* Pacific; to possess the Empire of the Pacific is to ho the master of tlm world.

Count Oknnia in the autumn of 1007 has this to say regarding India:— lining oppressed by the Europeans, the 300.000,000 people of Trnlin, are looking for Japanese protection. They have commenced to lvoyeott European merchandise. If. therefore, the Japanese let the chance slip by and do not go to India, the Indians will be disappointed. From the old times. India has been a land of treasure. Alexander the Groat obtained there treasure sufficient to load a hundred camels, and Mahmoud and ,\ttila also obtained riches from India. Why should not. the Japanese stretch out their hands towards that country, now that the people are looking to the Japanese? The Japanese ought to go to India, the South Ocean, and other parts of the world. JAVANESE MIGRATION. Thus for Japanese migration neither tho empty spaces of northern nor south ern Asia will do. The natural outlets lie outside Asia, in the I liited States. Australasia, and the temperate ’parts of I,atin America. Hut all these outlets arc rigorously barred by the white malt, wTo has marked them for his own race heritage, and nothing but force will break these harriers down. There lies the danger, not merely to tin* peace of the Ear East, hut to the pisu-e of the world. Fired l>v a fervent, patriotism, resolved to make their country a leader among the nations, the Japanese writhe at the constriction of their present race hounds. Placed on the (lank of tho Chinese giant, whose portentous growth she can accurately forecast, Japan secs herself condemned to ultimate Iren n.neiat ion of Iter grandiose ambit ions unless she can somehow broaden tilt* racial as well as the political basis of her power. In short, Japan must find lands where! Japanese can breed by tens of millions, if she is nut to he autoiunficallv overshadowed in course of time, even assuming that she dot's not stiffoeate or blow up from congestion before tltiil time arrives. This is the secret of her aggressive foreign policy, her chronic imperialism, her extravagant dreams of conquest ami ‘‘world doiniu-

“The great point of doubt in birth restriction is (lit* ability of the Western nations to retain control of the vast African, Australasian, and South American areas they have staked out as preserves to he peopled at their leisure w ith the diminishing overflow of their population. If underhreeding should leave them without the military strength that alone can defend their far-flung frontiers in the southern hemisphere, those huge undeveloped regions will assuredly he filled with the children of the brown and the yellow race.” Thus, white men of whatever country and however far removed from personal contact with coloured competitors. must realise that the question of coloured immigration vitallv concerns every white man. woman, and child he, aits* nowhere ahsolntelv nowhere

can white labour compete on equal terms with mlnured immigrant labour The ciim truth is that there are enough hard-working coloured men to swamp (lie whole white world.