The Daily News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9. THE WRITING ON THE WALL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81884, 9 November 1906, Page 2

The Daily News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9. THE WRITING ON THE WALL.

"Uut we are geiuiig an army urn. liavv, and then we shall see about ih> A., ioo pull-tax yuu impose un my cuun.iyuicii and other tilings yuu pu. upon US.-' J u-L a teiv signfic.un Wuids irom a Clhiiese traveller now m New Zcaanu. i'l.e avciage colonial wouid, ct couist, laugu at mc mpued threa:. llav.ng lather a con.tnipi for Chinamen, aai'uial.y lie ..ould nave a c.iueiapt for his army and iiavy, and piouuiy po.nt to tne laet thai we spend two mil v-ri a year n ueieace, nave ttveiai m lli.-iu of | carti.oges —ai'.d tile ''Spanow.' Our ■deas ol Chinese are bounded perhaps . by lue tio.ung w.m tne two vegt'tab e ba-keis on tnc one Hand and | i;y the not too beautiful person aim irons our coilais on Hie otner. \\c | do noi always -tie the seething hordes o: China—tut fiur hundred mill.ons of the Chinese Emperor s subjects uuo are now anxious io leair. Ue-tern methods, who aie even now des.ious of d.scard ng barbaiic slaughter wall a sw\.rd or a eiub r a bow and aiiow lor the mute iclined and iniinitcly more effective method that Ciiri--uaii nations employ.

Wfc call the c00..e Chinese with whom uo are iamiliar "the yellow per.]. Me is one of the lowest types of his c un'.rymcn, and we are always bound to aum.t 'hat even this type ot doggcu pu-on can come along and Deal us al many tiling?. 11 tile li.gii caste Chinese wiiii Dram power equal to iiic Westerner and wiVii all the cuii nuig ol the jap Lake» 11 .nto 11.s iicaei —ao lie smeiy is doing— to turn his luarve.iuUs aoiiny .n me u,n.ctiuii ol tae conquest ol tlie i'aciiic, wnat 1 going to stop nun. China pus-sc-si-o riches and lesuurces beiore tviiicn tlie nchcs and lesurces ot whai at can "c v-i=lcd nations are Ileaunco. Cinna can lose mil.lolls 01 men w.ilium missing mem. A gieai m-uil iiiui owcep- eignt or ien millions ui ye.lmv men 011 tile lace ol urn t-arui o cou.-iuuriU leas ol a calarn.iy .11 Cluna man t.ie 10 s ol uie "waiialapa is in i\ew Zealand.

cA.\ we, ,n the lace of what are contain tlneais, lau tu see tnai a.tnougli me t.me may never come wnen ine luigiiiy host: of China, named to 'lie peiieet.un ol tlie r cuusius, tne Ja pautse, wil. sweep tne Pacific tuai .neir power is not to be despi-ed r Bat die iioides ol As.a might liave been still content to live along tae lirita any 1 vtd befoie our nation was bom, Ueloic oui iouiatneis knew ine use "1 clotno . isui we have ins,sicd u « tcacning 111-111 what we believe to be civilisat.cn. We nave won our luxury at tne point of the sword, and toe dark-skinned imitators, able almost always to dom nate tlie woild, nave never, except once, shown an inclination to do so.

I'IIEIR age old habils of thought, and or l.ving are vanishing bcl'oie western culture. Kiinf.s;u.es tu.m China are to be found iluoug.iout the liv 1 ised worid, examining! imitating, 1111prov.ng on Liie methods oi the wlrin man. Ihe wh.te man can never tome lu believe that lie s not liie superior of Hie yellow, man to man, but toe wlio.e accumulation ot white mm .i;e bui a spot in the ocean complied .o the aggregation of me dark. Even litis the yellow man didn't iroub.c to know until recently. Now he knows. He knows lie has unlimited wealth, llimitabie number*, tremendous iesources. and that the help of others call be puicliascd for gold. He believes that we are ''devils." He can't lie.p believing it. A war with the white races, would be to the yellow, a holy war. Do we ever realise the pus bility of such a holy war? And do we icali-e wh'ch would be our puiliou in the event of such a war—victory or defeat ? What are we doing about it? Merely holding four Hundred million Chinamen, a bundled ill llinn japs, three bundled million Hindoos and a few million other people who bate us, in contempt. Lon tempi is a pour weapon.