CHINESE FORTUNES. How They Are Made in New Zealand.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 72, 16 November 1901, Page 8

CHINESE FORTUNES. How They Are Made in New Zealand.

NINE Chinese gentlemen, ha\mg amassed sufficient New Zealand money to give them positions as mandarins of the sky-blue jacket or the green dragon, departed last week foi their birth land They are satisfied with their sojourn with the ' white devil, and will surely recommend him as the most easily duped creature outside of the Flowery Land The free and independent working man of New Zealand protests loudly against the usurpation of his lights by the horde of yellow Asiatics who drive a more or less successful trade- in the colonies That is possibly why the said working man, properly aggrieved at the introduction of John, always prefers to buy the family banana from him » - • • The Chinaman is supposed to be inimical to the interests of the white man, because he can "live on the smell of an oil lag. while his white brothel requires three meals a day composed largely of animal food While hating the Mongolian, Mr Working Man evidently does not like to see the Chinaman imperilling his health by subsisting on the said oil lag, and 'he buys all his vegetable food as well as his fruit supplies from him, so that John may have some rice with his rag. John s cuteness is marvellous. He knows his white man. and he lies in wait foi him accoidmgly Have you ever bought magnificent lemons or mandarins from John which you subsequently discovered had been boiled dry to increase the size ' Did you ever notice the same class of banana at the back of the window as that which presented such an inviting appearance at the front thereof 7 And have you not invariably found that the fiuit in the bottom of the bag is like the Chinaman himself, bad at heart 1 The Wellington Mongolian blandly smiles, and pockets your money He has veiy little opposition, and he is is a quiet, opium-smoking Celestial, with doubtful morals and a big stack of iipenmg fiuit — (Ugh ') — undei his bed • • • The siiccess of the Chinese m the colony is an incentive to their hundreds of kinsmen elsewhere to come hither and do likewise. They will come to New Zealand to take up the fruit industry where the new-ly-made mandarins left off They will pay the jjoll tax, if we insist, but probably they have learned enough ' pidgeon ' English previoua to lmmi"iMtion and cany papers to tn ade it

So they come to New Zealand to level in the rights of fellowship with the white devil," and to sell him some more doubtful fruit. * * » If this country is to be used as a home for Asiatics ; if batches of our Sunday school girls are to be allowed to visit the Chinese to instruct them m the English language, and to Chnstianise them; and if the people think it is a right and proper tiling to do this, well and good But if there are many left who, while protesting against the influx of the oillag subsisting Celestial, will practice as well as protest, in discouraging in every way these gentle, guileless Asiatics, there will be fewer Chinamen with English fortunes in the Empire of Chun, and much less fruit of doubtful quality traded off on the unsuspecting New Zealand working man. his women folk, and little ones