ENGLAND'S ALIENS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4797, 9 January 1925, Page 2

ENGLAND'S ALIENS.

-■ —— : MENACE TO THE COUNTRY. (By John Blunt, in the Daily Mail.”) According to Sir William JoynsoiiHicks, the Home Secretary, there are - 272,000 aliens in England registered; with the police. Sir William stated that he found a\ tendency to allow aliens into the coun- ; try to take work which Englishmen could do. This is the whole crux of’.: the matter. Here we are with some’. a thing like a million and a quarter of our own unemployed making it easy; , for aliens, often of a very undesirable type, .to come into the country and_ take the bread out of our mouths. £ The Eastern-Eurppean aliens, who\ find England a perfect haven after their own countries, and have there-, fore flocked here like vultures flock" ing to feed upon a corpse, have been - accustomed in their own lands to a much lower scale of living and wages, and are consequently able to undercut - the English workman and yet live in comfort and save money. Plenty of .people are out of jobs because other people, with unpronounceable names, and who have done, nothing for England at all, have got the work. And then, if you please, when these aliens happen to be unsuccessful we give them the dole and so encourage them to stay. And yet we. .. know perfectly well that not only do tlmse aliens owe no allegiance to England, hut also that many of them have their heads full of subversive doc- . trines. The Communist Party is fed from alien sources and the average Communist meeting is thickly sprinkled- ■ with dubious-looking foreigners, who repay the hospitality given them by...this country by basely plotring against-.• her behind her back. No one objects to a foreigner be- - cause he is a foreigner, but everyone objects to a foreigner who takes his' job from him, and doubly objects, when that foreigner not only takes, his job but also schemes to ruin his country. And therefore I admit that I read Sir William Joynson-Hicks’’ strong, speech with the utmost pleasure. Now, . at last, we may hope there will be sin end to foolish sentimentalism with regard to- aliens. The alien in our - midst is an economic and a social . menace, and until he is taught that -1 England is no place for him and that’ ' he had better pack up and go home he will continue to be both • these... things. There are, of course, excel- ■ lent aliens who can justify their poBl-’ ; tion, but. unfortunately there arejs many who are far from excellent who are a positive harm.