The Daily News TUESDAY, JANUARY 28. THE COLOUR QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 32, 28 January 1908, Page 2

The Daily News TUESDAY, JANUARY 28. THE COLOUR QUESTION.

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The putting of a few extra dollars into the pockets of an inconsiderable number of cotton-squatters ultimately led to Enirland having lo pay twenty millions -ici-liim to put an end to their infamous trallic." The statesmen of England, it appears, have quite forgotten this trilling circumstance. The two gentlemen sitting at the table might further be asked if tliev have any appreciation of what it cost America in debt accumulation, in depreciation of the currency, in the consequent paralysis of commerce and in-du-trv. in the'lives of hundreds of thousands of her youth and manhood who perished ' during IHe fratricidal war waticd to strike Hie fetters from Ihe sbue-not lo get rid of the nigger, for that was impossible. Iml simply to untie his bonds. Really, it appears they have quite forgotten all about that. Further, it might be demanded of the gentlemen silting at the table if they have any idea of the conditions subsisting in America to-day, with its millions of niggers; have they ever tried to form a conception of what America would lie to-d.iv if she were not cursed with the presence of the nigger? The hungry thir-t for cheap labor on the part of a. few planters has left behind it a long trail of crime, of blood, of tears, of shame, and a huge black blot the virus of which eats into the olood of the American people* and will stain their hind for ever.

The cruelties, miseries, and shames, lu say nothing of the actual linancial loss, ha\e no effect upon the minds of the two llight Honorable gentlemen sitting placidly, now twiddling their thumbs, at the table: tiie spectacle presented to the.i' gaze by Ihe conditions obtaining across the Western sea has not the lea-t cll'ect upon their nerves; apparently they are quite ready to go on and ripe,u the wliofirhorrible business all over again, in South Africa a comparative hali-doieu of German Jews—not anything like so respectable as wer e ihe American cotton-planters were clamorous for cheap labor. They did not u'quire to initiate a horribly expensive and otherwise inconvenient African -lave trade, for there was the African- the Kaflir, the Zulu, the Basuto—even at their very doors. Their dividends were very large, but they wanted them larger still. They cast around, and their evil, covetous eyes lighted upon the" Chinese. What did the future tinaiii.ial burden, the social miseries, the positive degeneration arising from a large proportion of the population being of A-iatic origin matter to them? Tiny wanted to scoop the dollars in the meantime. Lord .Uilner, a highly respectable, capitalistic, Conservative gentleman, the agent of one of these Right Honorable capitalistic gentlemen sitting at the table, played into their hands, and some twenty thousand Chinese were brought into South Africa. Lord Miluor, of course, did not know anything about that siory of nigger-driving and nigg.irhunting in America. As a matter of fact, he was unaware that at this day there were any niggers in America. Hi's prescience was about equal to his knowledge.

But, the German-Jew diamond-mongers were not wholly satisiicd with the twenty thousand Chinese experiment, so they introduced a-few Hindoos as well, just lo give a kind ol tone to the extremely variegated population. Upon the aboriginal have been built Boer, Briton. Colonial, Chinese, Indian, and it is expected of them that they will prove the fathers of a future united homogeneous South African nation! To swell the purses of a few hungry Jews, horrors upon horrors accumulate. But a few brief years of this experience have gone by. ami the Minister of Lands in the Botha Government (the Hon. J. Rissikj is found declaring at Pretoria that the Asiatic question was now "a matter of life and death for the people ot (he Transvaal." A matter of life and death it has always been from the very first, and it does not say much for the intelligence of the people of the Transvaal that a knowledge of the fact appears io be only now breaking in upon them. From the very moment the project ol importing hincse into the Transvaal was mooted the people of New Zealand protested aga.nst it. The people "I the I ransvaal-whetlier it was because very lew of them had any intention of making South Africa their permanent home, or because they felt themsehes under the domination of the Jew cliqiie-did not then appear to atlach much importance to ihe importation of mongrel horde, 0 f Asiatics, but when they realise that already no less than lit teen per cent, ot their population is compose,! of this human flotsam they are waking up to_earuest action, it is not j before time.