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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 2 March 1907, Page 2

A PIiJiSSIXCi DUTY, the Queensland Government ''consider it to be their pressing duty to fill North Queensland with white muii. I'hus a cable; message. The filling <ot -North Queensland with white men.'is tho pressing duty, not ouiy of the Governments of tho colonics, but of the Imperial Government. Tiieie is absolutely nothing to prevent coloured hordes pouring into Australia by the North which is practically empty and wlioiiy defenceless. There are too few men of liny kind in -N'cw Zealand, there are ten thousand more Hindoos in Xatal than there are whites, and the other kind of blacks outnumber the white ten to one. India itself is kept (from absolute disorder by a mere handful of whites, and India is asking for fre<» dom. The natives have untold weiuth. immense resources, high talents, ami ii desire for modern progress. Canada does not seem to worry about the alien problem. It allows Asiatics in wholesale and claims to be unable to carry on some industries, notably -almoilcanning, without colored help. The Hritish Government is very averse to the colonial imperial idea of keeping Hie black, l»'.'Avn or yellow taint out nf the Wood, and refuses to see eye to eye with the people whom the competition o fthe alien affects. The spar--' Beness of colonial population is the condition that menace*, hut the augmentation of any colonial population by the introduction of aliens is a sorry method of peopling lirltish lands. Sir .Joseph Ward spoke more strongly on this alien ijuestion in Au-tral'a than uny colonial' statesman has ever before done, and. it is sincerely to lie hoped, lie may have a great influence nt the Colonial Conference. The (piecb tioii of keeping out the alien and of attracting by very possible means the Jlritislier or at least the European is the most vital one in the realm of colonial discussion.