The Daily News MONDAY, JULY 8. A WHITE RACE LEAGUE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 8 July 1907, Page 2

The Daily News MONDAY, JULY 8. A WHITE RACE LEAGUE.

A gOod lie.ll liaS hi-Tll said in New Zealand iaU'ly about the undesirable Asiatic, uud the person who continues to ]i:t iji on this one string is likely to be Linked mi as a crank. There is 110 stiing, however, that should be played on ' mure constantly than this one, lor if ! the people are apathetic, as sure as liiglit luilows day, the while races ui the uoiui will sooner or laier be dominated by the I colored races. Dr ilaedonaid, appal'cnllv a sane anil serious man. is so cou--vinced of the absolute necessity lor a combination of ihe while races against the colored thai lie'intends to devotj ail his timo to a propaganda towards that end. lie believes that the solution of the question lies in the education of the white race, not to the military danigers of till' filiation, but to the commercial dangers, lie believes that it the people of lli'itaiu lirst who must be educated io (lie sinister signs of tiie time in mimed inn with the aggressiveness of the Asiatic. Britain "is too fond of the "brotherhood of man'' business, S and most men concede that seiitimentahy, the brotherhood of mall, black or white or yellow, is all right as long as such a brotherhood does not touch the pockets of the white man. If Britain can be got to see that a Northern Territory mid a Northern Queensland, "containing a great white population, is worth fifty times more commercially and defensively than a territory swarming with aliens who exist on "the smell 1 of an oilrag," Britain will be converted. | It is all very well for Britain to depend | on the "brotherhood" business. If the yellow man and the black man and every other kind of man is a brother he should have the opportunities liis white brother enjoys. That is to say, if Britain believes the colonies should be forced to become a sanctuary for aliens, Britain should welcome the Asiatic in London, where, being a brothel', lie should be <il lowed eeery right, a vote and a seat in Parliament, or anything else that his pale brother had coming to him. Tlie White Race League is not going to exist to revile the Asiatic. It is apparently cnlled into life merely to exalt the white race, show its mistakes by object lessons ' and appeals to the pockets. The League should show the immense advantage to the white race in having Fiji, for instance. peopled by white people alone. | It eould show that where the population of any possession were white, the needs of that particular place were of immensely greater commercial importance ~ than if the population were colored. It is beyond belief extraordinary that t any sane Britisher should advocate the importation of immense numbers of coolies to work in any British industry. The low white always follows the coolie and sinks to his level. Tt is all very well for the"statesman in London, who has probably never seen a Chinese and who knows nothing of him, urging the colonies to take the yellow man by tlie. hand and become a brother to him. The theorist won't realise the position until the Chinaman is his own equal and sils in his own Parliament and takes away his trade. After all. the biggest menace at the present time to the white man is the trade menace. The race that holds the reins of commerce also holds the key to the military position. Xobod.v who desire the supr of the white race need join an auti-anytliing league, but he can talk and work and write for lb.' federation of the white peoIple of the whole earth as a protection against pocket-picking on the part of the federated colored races. One cannot re- — alise how much a white federation is required until one finds just how many men of the colored races could be brought • together by an effort oil the part of the colored commercial organisers. Tlie battie of the future will he fought between I ships of the mercantile marine, more J than between the armed ships of steel.