THE CHOW TURNS.

NZ Truth, Issue 110, 27 July 1907, Page 4

THE CHOW TURNS.

Tread on a worm and it will turn. Keep on hatting dear, dirty John Chinaman, and m the due course of time he will retaliate. When he does m China, it's gcneraliv the missionary who suffers, and then comes along a gunboat, and that is how j great Empires are .founded .by the British. This paper has wondered for quite a long time how long John Chinaman was prepared to stand the rusade .that is beina: waged' against him« . all through tlie country and what sort of retaliation dear, dirty John Chinaman would assume.: John has hit back, and he has done it m real English fashion. He* has' met,, or intends to meet, boycott with boy- | cott. Peregrinating the country just J nov/ m a campaign against every- i thing Chow is Mr W. A.Lloyd, and j during the week he struck. Dunedin. j where he held ,- a very successf *.vi White League meeting, and an unanimous vote fer a White New Zealand was taken. This meeting, and the consequent determination to bar anything with a yellow skin, and an ugly grin, and a mouth like sin, seems to 'have struck the Yellow Peril right on the solar plexus ; anyway, it was fair and above-board, it was above the belt, at 'lea.st, and John China-v man has hit back. Mr Lloyd, m a wire to "Truth" last Tuesday, says : For the first time m any centre during my campaign, the Chinese are organising and taking the names of fruiterers, especially those who display my cards announcing the meeting and notifying them that if they tako part m my mooting or assist m any way, they will be boy- ! ' cotted .by the Chinese fruiterers j and market-gardeners, who will j refuse to supply them with vegetables. The Chinese have already | met and arranged for pickets at ; the meeting and are to hold another meeting next Thursday. when they will take action regarding those who have participated m my meeting. Of course, if John Chinaman, fruit seller or market-gardener, does anything so foolish as to meet a boy- j cott with a boycott., he will be ! playing right into tbe hands of the j whiae. It looks as if the worm had I turned. If all the Chows, m ' every centre would but emulate the I example of t-heir yellow brethren, iii \ Dunedin, it would be the best possible j thing that could happen. It would !

encourage* white gardeners and white fruit and vegetable sellers. It will accentuate the feeling against the alien, who is not such a docile, delightful creature after all. The Dunedin Chow is fairly strong. He is as strong, m various senses, m Dunedin, as lie is m Wellington, /and it shows pretty plainly how successful and growing is the Antd-Chow movement m Dunedin when the alien has the ovcrbouniding impudence to get up on his rear legs and thus show the power he thinks he is m the land. The threats of the Dunedin Mongolians is an insult to the intelligence of White People. The Chow knows the kind of menace he is, and wants to keep on menacing. Dunedinitcs have now a splendid opportunity of kicking the foul brutes' out of their city. The Chow has hoisted his colors, and Dunedin, for the 'sake of white men, women and children, ought to tear them down with great pleasure.