THE YELLOW CURSE.

NZ Truth, Issue 73, 10 November 1906, Page 3

THE YELLOW CURSE.

TO THE EDITOR

Sir,— Allow me to thoroughly endorse everything written by your correspondent "Chow Hater" m- last week's issue. It is an infernal shame that the Government dees not take some stringent measures to stop the steady invasion of the yellow brutes. But I ask you, Sir, whose fault it is? The. public themselves. The women beine; the principal sinners, as they deal 'with the stinking Chow from choice. There is something m the smell of a Chow that seems to have an attraction for the average woman, as you. see working men's wives simply rush a Chow's shop m preference to that of a European. As a case 'at point, take this village as an examples There are not less than six Ohinese fruiterers as against one white man. He is a born New Zea'lander, but his patriotic countrymen .would rather patronise aliens than him, so he ought to be very proud iof them and of his nationality. The average New Zealander is anything but a partiotic individual, and he prefers American boots to those made -m his own' country (that is, if he can Milord them), although his own country's got>ds are far and away the best. He prefers shoddy to good honest Kaiapoi' or Mosgiel tweed. He eats stinkino-. manureraised Chow vegetables m preference to those grown by white men.' He has a weakness for German pianos, and other "Made m .Germany" rubbish. He succeeded m shutting down what would have developed into an important industry, employing hundreds of people, by his preference for American made' cigarettes and tobacco, m fact any thing that can be got from abroad instead of what can be raised m his own land. He is blessed with the finest country on God's earth, and he is doing his level best, through his criminal indifference, to make it the dumping p-round for all the human rubbish m the world, and a breeding place for half-caste, yellow, brown and black mongrels of all kinds. lam afraid, however, that while this indifference lasts, from the highest to the lowest, that nothing will ■be done to effectually stop the steady influx of undesirables that are slowly but ■surely flooding the country, and once here will bo like Sinbad's "Old Man of the Sea" very difficult to g-et rid of. I think a great deal might bej

done (but I am not too sure) if a journal like yours, that circulates so largely among the workers, would publish a series of articles showing them the evils of alien immigration, and the injury they are doing to themselves and their children and their children's children by encouraging the yellow and black curse. As a matter of fact we don't want to import labor of any kind (with the exception, perhaps, of a few experts occasionally, m particular industries) as we can breed all we require. Look at the thousands of children attending our State schools, who, m the course of a few years, will have to take their plaops m the industrial ranks of their own country, if thoy are not ousted from them by yellow and black and pauper labor imported from other lands.— l am, &c, SNIP. Petone, October 3, 1906.